‘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 ...

It was some years ago. A birthday present to myself. A four-season plant, the variegated-leaved Abutilon pictum 'Thompsonii,' destined to grow into a lush flowering shrub. A focal point for a spot on ...

Gardeners have relied on the mail for centuries. Long before mail-order nurseries first sent their catalogs to customers, gardeners wrote to friends asking for a piece of a peony root, a tulip bulb or ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once the weather stabilizes in colder climates, annual flower seedlings in nursery trays or pots will proliferate at garden shops and nurseries. For a greater variety of species, colors and shapes, ...

(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, ...

The library is as close as a mailbox with the popular Library Books-By-Mail service. Books, large-print books and books-on-tape can be sent directly to a person’s doorstep, free of charge. Library ...

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 ...