Sears, Roebuck and Co. will close the last of its catalog outlet stores – including three in Orlando – by the end of September, the company said Monday. Sears, which abandoned its 106-year-old catalog ...

Like a lot of people, I enjoy shopping on the Internet. Practically anything you want is available, with just a click of the mouse. You order, wait a few days, and voila - it arrives in your mailbox.

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 ...

When Sears, Roebuck and Co. announced on Monday the demise of its catalog, the company closed the book on a major piece of Americana. The catalog’s significance to the American way of life was evident ...

1897 SEARS ROEBUCK CATALOGUE; introductions by S. J. Perelman and Richard Rovere. 786 pages. Chelsea House. $14.95. Any archaeologist knows that nothing gives a better picture of how vanished ...

It would be hard to imagine a company as much a part of the American scene as Sears Roebuck & Company. At age 100 it truly has been a part of the cultural history of the nation. To once isolated ...

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 ...

The soul of an American institution, if not its heart, was cut out Monday when Sears, Roebuck and Co. announced the closing of its money-losing catalog division and the demise of its storied Big Book.

One of the best Christmas or Hanukkah presents that young baby boomers like me got even before the holidays did not cost our parents anything. This gift was as magical as many of the costly gifts that ...