Richard W. Sears founded the Sears Catalog, Along with Alvah C. Roebuck, and eventually the current retail giant that Sears is today (at least until the past few years of bankrupcy at the hands of ...

Every year, the Sears Wish Book arrived just before Christmas, and kids treated it like a holy grail. Flipping through page ...

Catalogs have undergone a steady recalibration over the years in response to technological changes and consumer behavior. The thick, heavy Sears and J.C. Penney catalogs that brought store ...

Here are some of the most interesting products that Sears sold nearly 120 years ago. The wonderful world of copywriting before things like “laws” and “morals” is on full display in this 1902 catalog.

Reflecting on Sears Canada's closure seven years ago, we explore its history, decline, and legacy in shaping Canada's retail ...

Candace Forbes Since then, Forbes has collected six Sears holiday catalogs. While he has a few from his childhood, he’s also managed to find others at garage sales and online. He says the ...

Ryan Forbes, the man in the TikTok video, came across a 1998 Sears catalog a couple of years ago while cleaning his grandmother's house. "I don’t know if it was the smell, the feel of the glossy pages ...

A couple of years ago, Ryan Forbes was cleaning out his grandmother's house shortly after she died when he came across a 1998 Sears holiday catalog in perfect condition. Upon finding it ...

Thanks to those advantages, e-commerce dominance was arguably Sears’ to lose. Sears was a catalog-only retailer for decades before it opened its first store in 1925. At its peak in the 1980s ...

It was in 1933 when Sears issued their very first, very popular Christmas catalog, according to History.com, filled with all the hottest items of the year. The 1933 catalog included products ...