Watching Rick Mercer's old clips, I pause in the one about Sears Closing Five Stores, below is why Sears Canada die: look at this stupid ad where the family has an Arab father, a South Asian mother, and an African kid!
In the following thread I should post a bunch of Classic Sears ad I saved up from I think, Reddit / Macleans, reddit briefly had a lot of comments of people noting how white Canada was so recently before it got 'moderated'. "18 Ads from When Sears Canada Was Blooming in the 1070s"