Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A few weeks ago, while taking two of my now-teenage granddaughters shopping for outfits for a sports banquet, I became nostalgic.

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 ...

For 105 years, the Sears catalog sat in millions of American homes as something close to a national wishlist. From its first mailer in 1888 to its final general edition in 1993, the “Big Book” ...

In the old days, the line between editorial and advertising at newspapers was not as sharply drawn as it is now. Thus, the Dec. 9, 1938, editions of The Morning Call offered its readers the following: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once upon a time—way before online shopping—you could order just about everything you needed from the Sears, Roebuck and Co.

FALL RIVER — Before there was Amazon Prime, there was the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalog. The retail giant's catalog, printed from 1892 to 1993, featured any product an American consumer could ever need ...

Sears will soon close more than 100 stores after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and amassing millions in debt. The closing list has inspired some people to reflect on the retail company’s legacy, ...

Sears will live on, at least for now. The company's chairman and largest shareholder and chairman, Eddie Lampert, won a January bankruptcy auction for Sears in New York, averting liquidation of the ...

ATLANTA -- Sears' declaration of bankruptcy last week was entirely expected, a train wreck long in the making. What might have caught many by surprise were the immediate reflections by ...