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 ...

The iconic brand, Sears, has filed for bankruptcy in the wake of a number of financial debts. The corporation, which also owns Kmart, said it has a $134 million debt payment that it could not afford.

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 ...

Remember opening up your mailbox to discover your eagerly anticipated Christmas catalog? Children would excitedly flip through the pages to select items for their letters to Santa or identify ...

At lunchtime Monday, shortly after he heard that the once-mighty Sears company was filing for bankruptcy, Louis Hyman thought, “Huh, I should write some stuff down.” Hyman, a historian of capitalism ...

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, ...

It would be hard to imagine a company as much a part of the American scene as Sears Roebuck & Company. At age 100 it truly has been a part of the cultural history of the nation. To once isolated ...

In mid-December 2015, an image purportedly showing a vintage 1950s Sears catalog ad featuring a smiling family all holding rifles began circulating on Facebook: That ad is indeed real, although it was ...

At lunchtime Monday, shortly after he heard that the once-mighty Sears company was filing for bankruptcy, Louis Hyman thought, “Huh, I should write some stuff down.” Hyman, a historian of capitalism ...

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, the company grew to ...

At 7 a.m., 10 senior Sears executives gather in a sixth-floor conference room in Hoffman Estates for a daily meeting — or, as some refer to it, a "daily beating" — with Edward "Eddie" Lampert. Via ...