A few weeks ago, while taking two of my now-teenage granddaughters shopping for outfits for a sports banquet, I became nostalgic. As we were walking through Penney’s, I tried to explain to them the ...

It’s not 1939 outside. But this unfortunate date (see above) hasn’t prevented me from perusing, in some detail, the Fall-Winter catalog from Sears, Roebuck and Co. They are perhaps my only costly vice ...

To land his first copywriting job, my father was asked a question that still resonates today. In my father’s recently released memoir on his 50-year career in advertising, “Pickett, Plunkett and ...

When you think of Sears today, you may think of a place at the mall where you’d buy tools or a pair of jeans. But if you turn the dial back a century, the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog was also a way ...

SCOTTS Morgan and Pam Macomber dreamed of finding just the right house -- one evoking a special ambiance of the past. They'd driven past the red house, but they had no idea it had been a 1928 Sears ...

Known as "The Farmer's Bible" or "The Nation's Wishbook," the Sears, Roebuck catalog became an American institution. When the catalog first came out, mail order was not a new concept, for Montgomery ...

Catalog discounts: Sears, Roebuck and Co. is offering discounts of up to 30 percent as it depletes inventories of the catalog operations it is closing. Also, Sears has extended to April 30 its plans ...

What do you remember when you hear the name Sears? The answer may depend on how old you are - and if you’ve been keeping up with the news. In recent years, Sears has made headlines as a struggling ...

Sears will live on, at least for now. The company's chairman and largest shareholder and chairman, Eddie Lampert, won a January bankruptcy auction for Sears in New York, averting liquidation of the ...

An arbitrator has ordered Sears, Roebuck & Co. to continue operating its Philadelphia catalog distribution center because its closing violates the company`s union agreement. At issue is the June 30 ...