Sears, Roebuck and Co., Middle America's department store, yesterday agreed to buy Lands' End Inc., the country's largest catalogue and online clothing retailer. For $1.9 billion in cash, Sears is ...

Founded in 1886, Sears, Roebuck & Company found success with its famous mail ordering catalog. The Sears catalog offered the opportunity for many rural residents to purchase almost anything they ...

Shopping catalogs were a popular way to buy goods and have them shipped directly to your home in the 20th century. At the forefront of the mail-order industry was Richard Sears with his now-famous ...

Shuttering its stores? Some of us hadn't realized that Sears was still IN business.

Sears was once one of the most prominent retailers for home goods in the country, but today it feels like a relic, with only ...

Monday’s announcement that Sears would file for bankruptcy and close 142 stores came as little surprise to anyone who has followed the retail giant’s collapse in recent years. Still, the news ...

Sears' declaration of bankruptcy this week was entirely expected, a train wreck long in the making.

Ryan 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.

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 … ...

Retail giant Sears has filed for bankruptcy. Historian Louis Hyman of Cornell reflects with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly on the impact the Sears catalog had for African-Americans during the Jim Crow era.