‘Tis the season when mailboxes start overflowing with holiday catalogs. That’s because in-home shopping has become increasingly important to the nation’s retailers, especially in the weeks leading up ...

If you're clicking through the internet today hoping to do a little shopping, you likely have Aaron Montgomery Ward to thank. Ward's catalog was a single sheet offering 163 items. By 1884, the catalog ...

The holiday shopping campaigns have already begun: by way of TV ads, emails, social media, and — increasingly — catalogs. Yes ...

The mailbox is still crammed with glossy catalogs of every shape and size, featuring almost anything a consumer’s heart could desire from cutlery, to shop-by-mail clothing, fitness equipment, imports, ...

Doug Krizner: On today’s list of annoying things: unwanted catalogs stuffed in your mail box. Now there’s an online service to help you choose what you get, and it saves a few trees along the way.

I cover environmental and green technology issues from San Francisco. Over the past five years, Catalog Choice has processed more than 22.5 million requests from consumers through its website to stop ...

Apparently the holidays are in full swing: Our mailbox is chockablock with a steadily increasing number of catalogs, flyers, and other unwanted detritus every day. There’s really nothing like a wasted ...

JCPenney will send out 10 million copies of its Christmas Catalog this fall. The redesigned catalog will feature merchandise grouped by themes such as “gifts under $25,” “gifts for him or her,” “gifts ...

(Reuters) - Sundance Holdings Group LLC, the U.S. artisan mail-order catalog company founded by actor Robert Redford, is working with investment bank Lazard Ltd to explore a sale of the company, ...

Monday’s announcement that Sears would file for bankruptcy and close 142 stores came as little surprise to anyone who has followed the retail giant’s collapse in recent years. Still, the news inspired ...