In 1886, Richard Warren Sears started to sell gold-filled pocket watches as his second job with the railroad in North redwood, Minnesota. No one imagined, at the time, that his R. W. Watch Company would become the largest shops in the world. When the idea of building the Sears Tower was considered, in the late 1960s, the Sears Roebuck and Company had a income of almost $450 million each year. Sears had businesses with thirteen other countries in the world, Sears also had 355,000 employees working at 826 retail stores, 11 catalog plants, and 2,100 sales offices plus independent catalog stores. It is seems right, that the world's largest retailer should also build the world's largest building. Sear's products made up one percent of the United States goods and services. They wanted to build a building in which would provide working space for more than 13,000 of Sears's employees around Chicago.