I’m happy to tell you because I just found out myself! It is a kit home purchased out of a Sears mail order catalog. Sounds unbelievable, right? But in those ...

A late arrival to the gaming field who grew up in a household devoid of consoles. Her life changed after she found an old Gameboy Color and a copy of Pokémon Crystal at a garage sale. While she ...

Sears was once a retail giant with over 3,500 stores, a number that included Kmart locations after its 2005 merger. But today, it is a mere shadow of what it once was, and people are wondering if it ...

CHICAGO -- At more than 130 years old, Sears is woven into the fabric of American history. As its retail presence and cultural significance decline, we took a look back at the company through its long ...

Sears' declaration of bankruptcy this week was entirely expected, a train wreck long in the making. What might have caught many by surprise were the immediate reflections by African-American scholars ...

NEW YORK (AP/WCCO) --Before there was Amazon — or, for that matter, Home Depot or Walmart or Kmart — there was Sears. From its beginnings as a mail-order watch business in Minneapolis 132 years ago, ...

Sears did more than pioneer the mail-order catalog over a century ago. The iconic retailer helped make America a more inclusive place at a time when Jim Crow was rampant and women couldn’t even vote.

The department store was formerly famous for its catalog and high-end offerings. — -- Sears was once a sparkling star of the retail world going back to the days before there was such a thing as a ...

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

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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 ...