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 ...

For so many people who grew up before the internet, the Sears catalog WAS the internet. The thick, heavy books had tools, dishes, TVs, clothes, appliances and just about anything else you’d need ...

CHICAGO — The remaining remnant of the “Big Book” catalog of Sears, Roebuck and Co., the company’s catalog outlet stores, will be shuttered at the end of September, the company announced yesterday.

Ancestry.com now has the complete collection of Sears, Roebuck and Company catalogs from 1896 to 1993, spring and fall seasons, available for viewing on its website. Comprising more than 250,000 pages ...

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 ...

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

A large cluster of Sears homes can be found in the Mountainview section of Hellertown. More than 60 homes were built in the neighborhood east of Dimmick Park in the early ’40s from kits ordered ...

One thing that's a bargain at Sears Roebuck & Co. these days: stock prices. Sears is now 35 cents a share — a drop of 16 percent since the fabled 126-year-old retail giant announced it had filed for ...

What: This is no ordinary century-old colonial home: It was built in 1923 from a kit ordered through a Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog. Where: The two-story is at 424 19th St. NW in Canton's historic ...

As recently as 1953, new-car shoppers could avoid dealerships by ordering directly from their Sears catalog or nearest retail outlet. Named after the insurance company that owned the department-store ...