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#TBT: Service Merchandise Was the OG Multi-Channel Shopping Experience

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After leaving the wholesale business, the couple opened Service Merchandise, Inc., This process was altered in the late 1980s to allow customers to place their own orders on a number of self-service computer kiosks named “Silent Sam,” which the company later renamed “Service Express.”