When I was a kid, nothing announced the holiday season like the arrival of the Sears Christmas catalogue. So special, so ...

A shopping center's exterior can sometimes stay the same for decades at a time, but the brands inside come and go more than ...

It’s a move that might seem old school, but it could improve the shopping experience big time. Catalogs evoke nostalgia and can capture children's attention, even in a digital age. Retailers like ...

It's easy to forget that right into the 1990s, Sears was viewed as a blue chip retailer. In the year 2000, it’s worth remembering that GE was the world’s most valuable company, Enron the smartest, and ...

The Sears store in Burbank is closing, the last of the 139-year-old chain’s traditional Southern California retail stores. “I can confirm they are closing,” said Eric Maenner, general manager of the ...

Sears sold mail-order kit homes from 1908 to 1942, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Few Sears kit homes were sold in Florida, likely due to shipping logistics and the homes' ...

Before there was Amazon and the internet, there was the Sears Catalog Big Book. It offered everything from ready-to-build home kits to clothes, furniture, tools, jewelry, appliances, and even opium in ...

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 ...

There was a time when Sears was the largest retailer in the United States with 3,500 stores. Now it has just eight. And for folks of a certain age, that is an incredibly somber fact. But it is a fact ...

Answer: From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold "catalog houses" in its Sears catalogs. You could buy your to-be-built home from Sears, too, for as little as $3,050. Sears sold 70,000 of them, many in ...

When she started her search for a house, Amy Balicki didn’t set out to buy a Sears kit home in Downers Grove, Illinois – but she probably should have. That’s because Downers Grove was a prime location ...