Sears, Roebuck and Co. said Monday that it is re-evaluating plans to force the closure of all its independently owned catalog stores. Instead, the company said, it may opt to keep as many as 25 ...

Analysts and retail consultants reacted favorably Tuesday to the news that Sears, Roebuck and Co. is considering keeping open as many as 25 percent of its independently owned catalog stores as ...

Montgomery Ward Co. will close privately owned catalog stores in Quakertown and Doylestown by 1987. But neither store owner knows when he will be put out of business. “We don’t know what is going to ...

NEW YORK -- J.C. Penney Co. plans to close some stores, outlets and call centers, finish closing its catalog business and add two opinionated shareholders, including activist investor William Ackman, ...

Century Housewares was a Hamburg-based chain of catalog stores, very similar to Brand Names. Shoppers would find items they wanted in a catalog, and then fill out slips of paper to hand to a clerk, ...