As recently as 1953, new-car shoppers could avoid dealerships by ordering directly from their Sears catalog or nearest retail outlet. Named after the insurance company that owned the department-store ...

Sears’ slow death, which started in the 1990s with the rise of discount retailers like Walmart and online shopping platforms ...

Beginning in1908, catalog customers could browse among styles and models of homes, then they could order all the materials to build it.

According to the national database, Sears Houses, the retailer — known at the time as Sears, Roebuck & Co. — sold blueprints, ...

In one video, Forbes opens a sealed 1996 Sears Wish Book, which happens to be his favorite catalog he owns. Since posting, the video has garnered more than 600,000 views and 1,800 comments.

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

Context: 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 ...

Context Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However, versions of those catalogs — possibly including an alleged 1956 Sears Christmas book featured in ...

The Sears catalog -- and competitors who followed -- allowed them to buy those goods, providing a market for goods made in factories. That allowed more Americans to live in cities. 1913 ...

A family stands on the front porch of their Sears home – a model dubbed “The Westly” in the 1920s catalog – in Raleigh, N.C., in 2011.

Two designs from a Pacific Ready-Cut Homes catalog. The California company manufactured kit homes that were similar to the more famous Sears kits, which are rare in California. Pacific Ready-Cut Homes ...