When the catalog first came out, mail order was not a new concept, for Montgomery Ward (known as "The Original Grange Supply House") had been in the business for 14 years before Richard W. Sears sold ...
The impressive comeback of Sears, Roebuck and Co. was one of the major success stories of the 1990s. Sears was losing billions of dollars a year in the early 1990s but recovered to become one of the ...
Sears (officially Sears, Roebuck & Company ... It began as a mail order catalog company, and began opening retail locations in 1925. The company gradually declined following prosperity during ...
In the early 20th century, Sears, Roebuck and Co., the famed American retailer ... window screens and other building materials via a catalog called Sears Modern Homes from 1908 to 1942.
Sears, Roebuck, & Co. could practically touch the sky in 1969. At the height of its powers, the retailer began constructing a Chicago skyscraper to house its employees that year. Finished in 1973 ...