Sears, Roebuck put out its first catalog in the 1890’s. You could buy a watch, jewelry and, later on, saddles, sewing machines, silk stockings, even live singing canaries. “The Sears catalog ...

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.

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 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.

Founded by railroad station agent Richard Sears in the 1880s, Sears Roebuck got its start with the 'internet' of the 1800s: mail order catalogs. At the time the very idea of ordering a product ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sharon Marovich, Special to the Democrat Oct 24, 2024 Oct 24, 2024 Updated Oct 25, 2024 The best career move Ben Sears ever made was to change professions from photographer to artist with a little ...

Sears said yesterday that it was considering selling 200 to 300 stores to a newly formed real-estate investment trust, the first step in a plan that could offload most of the chain’s 1,800 ...