That's compared to the 24% who plan on picking up a real tree. Original article source: Sears sold the first artificial Christmas trees for $0.50 and $1.00 in the late 1800s ...

Sears, Roebuck & Company is credited by the National Christmas Tree Association as the first store to sell artificial trees. This started around 1883, according to the source. At this time ...

Sears says it has substantial doubt it will be able to keep their doors open, possible ending a business that has been around since the 1800s. A regulatory filing says Sears lost $2 billion last year.

It's easy forget that Sears was young and bold once too. Starting in the tail end of the 1800s, the company built an empire on the back of a then-revolutionary home catalog hundreds of pages thick.

Sears’ roots date to the late 1800s when it offered merchandise by mail order to farmers, opened its first retail store in 1925 and eventually became the nation’s biggest department store ...

Since Sears opened in the late 1800s, it has been a staple of American shopping. With the demise of its brick-and-mortar stores and the rise of Amazon and other online shopping retailers ...