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 ...

Sears has been given its second chance. On Thursday, a bankruptcy judge approved the sale of Sears to its chairman, Eddie Lampert, after a court battle that lasted several days, a representative for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...