Two major lifestyle retailers at different ends of the budget spectrum dropped home-centric catalogs ahead of the holiday ...

Winder notes that Amazon has used this strategy effectively for several years, and so has Target. He also points out that ...

There was a time not all that long ago. when a person could sit down with a thick, glossy mail-order catalog, a pen, and a ...

The average cost to buy a home in Florida in 2025 is hovering around $385,000, according to Zillow’s most current Florida housing market data. But there was once a time, about 85 years ago, when you ...

Sears and Roebuck knew how to reach customers in the far corners of the country -- decades before the Internet. By the turn of the 20 th century, Sears had taken advantage of the nationwide rail ...

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While mail-order companies may seem like a relic of the past, they served an important role in retail history and continue to operate to this day. Mail-order catalogs are physical books or booklets ...

TAMAQUA – Jim Hain believes his grandparents, Charles and Catherine Houser, ordered a new house from a Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog in the late 1920s or early 1930s. “The house was complete, and they ...

Sears Holdings filed an application for bankruptcy protection in Chapter 11 of the US bankruptcy law on Monday, October 15, 2018. Eddie Lampert, the 125-year-old CEO of the company, will step down ...

Thirty-five years ago, print media was having a renaissance. And the uncontested leader of the medium, with more cultural relevance than most magazines or books, was a clothing catalog, delivered free ...

Sears’s history is the history of U.S. consumerism, its catalog the picture book of an expanding 19th- and 20th-century America. Depending on the decade, consumers could order lumber, nails and paint, ...

It’s time for our Monthly with Mosley conversation. Judge Derek Mosley is a municipal court judge for the city of Milwaukee, who will soon become the director of Marquette Law School’s Lubar Center.