In one TikTok video, Ryan Forbes opened a 1996 Sears Wish Book, which has since garnered more than 600,000 views Candace Forbes; Ryan Forbes A couple of years ago, Ryan Forbes was cleaning out his ...

Sears’ bankruptcy filing on Monday drummed up plenty of nostalgia for its heyday as the world’s biggest retailer. As Hoffman Estates-based Sears Holdings Corp. works to save its business, there’s no ...

Sears' mail-order catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s offered dogs, ponies, monkeys, and other animals for purchase. Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However ...

The early 1980s were a watershed moment for digital technology. Aside from the imminent personal computing revolution, it was clear that video recording could change the way we did everything from ...

It’s not 1939 outside. But this unfortunate date (see above) hasn’t prevented me from perusing, in some detail, the Fall-Winter catalog from Sears, Roebuck and Co. They are perhaps my only costly vice ...

Before there was Amazon, before there was Ebay, before there was Facebook — heck, before “internet” was a word — there was the Sears, Roebuck & Company catalog. For more than a century, the Sears ...

Long before a network of interstate highways put everybody within an easy drive of a shopping mall, the Sears catalog brought the nation’s largest retailer to every hamlet and outpost in America.

Just three months after acquiring catalog powerhouse Lands’ End, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. spun off a catalog of its own. In September the department store giant mailed the 40-page Sears Catalog: Fine ...

Will plunging profits soon spell the end of Sears, Roebuck and Company? The 122-year-old retail giant virtually created modern American consumerism. For anyone over the age of 40, its demise is almost ...