The layout of Amazon's catalog is strikingly similar to the now-discontinued Sears Wish Book, with images of toys and scattered across the page and information about each toy in the fine print ...

When I heard the news that Sears may finally be going out of business, I had two reactions: 1) You mean it’s still in business? And 2) How are children supposed to learn about the world’s vast array ...

The Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Christmas Catalog was the first indication for Tustin children that Christmas was coming when I was a youngster. We spent hours on the floor or our beds perusing the pages ...

A view from the author's desk, featuring two of his favorite fictional characters (and Yadier Molina) Photo: Whet Moser The other day I found myself telling my four-year-old daughter that there's no ...

My mother gave me the coolest thing ever — the 1964 Spring and Summer edition of the Sears Catalog. No one comes to my house and sees it without gasping and wanting to flip through the pages to see ...

Sears Holdings has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in White Plains, New York, the company announced this morning. The iconic company, which owns Sears and Kmart, said early Monday that it ...

If you want to know what American life was like during the 20th century, there are two essential resources: LIFE magazine and the Sears Roebuck catalog. Google Books put the entire run of LIFE on the ...

Before there was Amazon, before there was Ebay, before there was Facebook — heck, before “internet” was a word — there was the Sears, Roebuck & Company catalog. For more than a century, the Sears ...

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.

We check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in the 1920s. To commemorate Mail Order Catalog Day on August 18, we’ll check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in ...

Amazon, knowing that print is essentially dead, has decided to capitalize on the collective nostalgia directly related to the death of retail. With Toy 'R' Us now a thing of the past and classic ...

Amazon will be mailing out its first-ever holiday toy catalog to millions of shoppers this year. Amazon's toy catalog is reminiscent of the iconic holiday guides distributed by Sears and the ...