Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However, some versions of those catalogs — possibly including an alleged 1956 Sears Christmas book featured in popular ...

Sears’ bankruptcy filing on Monday drummed up plenty of nostalgia for its heyday as the world’s biggest retailer. As Hoffman Estates-based Sears Holdings Corp. works to save its business, there’s no ...

Thanks to the Internet, you can buy just about anything online and have it shipped to you in a few days or less. The process is reminiscent of the early 1900s, when people turned to mail-order ...

Remember opening up your mailbox to discover your eagerly anticipated Christmas catalog? Children would excitedly flip through the pages to select items for their letters to Santa or identify ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Not long ago, the Sears, Roebuck and Co. mail-order catalog was the ultimate ...

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 ...

Will plunging profits soon spell the end of Sears, Roebuck and Company? The 122-year-old retail giant virtually created modern American consumerism. For anyone over the age of 40, its demise is almost ...

This week's announcement that Sears is closing its Mankato store no doubt brought a flood of memories for anyone over the age of 35. I pick that age because most anyone younger than that remembers ...

The iconic brand, Sears, has filed for bankruptcy in the wake of a number of financial debts. The corporation, which also owns Kmart, said it has a $134 million debt payment that it could not afford.

In mid-December 2015, an image purportedly showing a vintage 1950s Sears catalog ad featuring a smiling family all holding rifles began circulating on Facebook: That ad is indeed real, although it was ...

Retail giant Sears has filed for bankruptcy. Historian Louis Hyman of Cornell reflects with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly on the impact the Sears catalog had for African-Americans during the Jim Crow era.

Sep. 5—TAMAQUA — Jim Hain believes his grandparents, Charles and Catherine Houser, ordered a new house from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog in the late 1920s or early 1930s. "The house was complete, ...