When I was a little girl, I spent hours poring over the Sears catalog. I had my eye on a Holly Hobbie Oven. And aside from the fact that you could bake real cakes in it, what I loved about shopping ...

Sears, Roebuck and Co. said Monday that it is re-evaluating plans to force the closure of all its independently owned catalog stores. Instead, the company said, it may opt to keep as many as 25 ...

Sears, the iconic retailer that has been struggling with slipping sales and fading relevance, is tapping into nostalgia to woo back shoppers — with a modern twist. For the first time in six years, ...

Once upon a time—way before online shopping—you could order just about everything you needed from the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog—including a house. In the early 20th century, the massive Sears ...

A year after it shuttered its “Big Book” catalog operation and fired 20,000 catalog employees, Sears, Roebuck and Co. returned to the wide-circulation catalog business. Sears and Hanover Ventures Inc.

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Before Amazon became the one-stop shop for practically everything, there was the Sears catalog. With one-fifth of Americans as subscribers, the catalog dominated the market and impacted the lives of ...

At present, Sears is barely surviving in bankruptcy court. But there was a day when Sears was the Amazon of its time. It made the mail-order catalog a staple of American households, and in so doing, ...

Leafing through a Sears catalog, circling what you want, may be the brand's biggest gift to our cultural zeitgeist. The telephone-book sized anthology of anything you'd ever need or want stands either ...