‘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 ...

“Aren’t you sick of all the catalogs in the mail?” asked my friend Kelly over lunch the other day. “Not in the least,” I said, in my deservedly authoritative manner. Catalogs are one of the shrinking ...

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 ...

Shopping by mail can be a convenient and effective way to shop, but while some catalogs are desirable and useful, others are just junk sent by direct-mail marketers. Catalogs for products you don’t ...

The internet hasn’t killed off the mail-order catalog. Discover a list of popular mail order catalogs from direct-to-consumer ...

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.

Before the advent of the mail-order catalog, rural black southerners typically only had the option of shopping at white-owned general stores — often run by the owner of the same farm where they worked ...

It’s always fun when garden catalogs arrive in the mail. Mine generally start to arrive in December and continue through February. In the evening when things slow down, you will find me drooling over ...