Before there was Amazon — or, for that matter, Home Depot or Walmart or Kmart — there was Sears. From its beginnings as a mail-order watch business in Minneapolis 132 years ago, the company grew to ...

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 ...

When my late grandmother bought her first home in the early 1970s, she paid cash for the tidy red brick bungalow with the life savings that she had earned working as a packer in the catalog department ...

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 ...

When my late grandmother bought her first home in the early 1970s, she paid cash for the tidy, red brick bungalow with the life savings that she had earned working as a packer in the catalog ...

One of the best Christmas or Hanukkah presents that young baby boomers like me got even before the holidays did not cost our parents anything. This gift was as magical as many of the costly gifts that ...

The dust bins of history rarely go unoccupied. At the household level, they reside in the attics, basements and closets of American homes, where items no longer needed — but too important, interesting ...

Question: While going through containers filled with Christmas items after our late grandmother’s death, my brother and I came across several boxes filled with old Sears “Wish” Christmas catalogs, ...

In the early 1990s, the bold blue letters of a Sears sign were raised above the entrance to one of four anchor stores at the sprawling new Mall of America near Minneapolis. In the heyday of shopping ...

The do-it-yourself, modest tiny home boom is gaining popularity in an era of shocking rent increases and low housing inventory — and we may have America's former largest retailer, Sears, to thank for ...