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.

Sears, Roebuck and Co. announced Monday that it was closing the book on its 106-year-old catalog and closing 113 retail stores in a reorganization that will cost 50,000 people their jobs. Wall Street ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- 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 ...

This week's announcement that Sears is closing its Mankato store no doubt brought a flood of memories for anyone over the age of 35. I pick that age because most anyone younger than that remembers ...

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.

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At present, Sears is barely surviving in bankruptcy court. But there was a day when Sears was the Amazon of its time. It made the mail-order catalog a staple of American households, and in so doing, ...

For so many people who grew up before the internet, the Sears catalog WAS the internet. The thick, heavy books had tools, dishes, TVs, clothes, appliances and just about anything else you’d need ...

Sears, the iconic retailer that has been struggling with slipping sales and fading relevance, is tapping into nostalgia to woo back shoppers — with a modern twist. For the first time in six years, ...

Sears is currently singing the bankruptcy blues — but it's a little-known fact that the retail giant also helped nurture the musical genre spawned in the Deep South. Because that quintessentially ...