Before there was Amazon and the internet, there was the Sears Catalog Big Book.  It offered everything from ready-to-build home kits to clothes, furniture, ...

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

The old Sears, Roebuck, and Co. corporate headquarters in the northwest suburban Hoffman Estates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2018.

After selling his business in 1889, Sears partnered with Roebuck again to start another mail-order venture, which became Sears, Roebuck and Company in 1893.

Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick out their own ready-to-assemble home kit from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog and have the materials shipped directly to them, primarily by rail.

A shuttered Sears has reopened in Southern California. Could more be coming? The retailer’s empty stores are probably a better fit for today’s mega-retailers like Target, Costco or Walmart.

Sears, Roebuck and Co. began as a mail order catalog but later grew to include more than 3,000 retail locations, beginning in Chicago.

Sears, Roebuck & Co., which opened its first store in Chicago in 1893, at its zenith became the top retailer in the US with more than 4,000 stores and 350,000 employees. Selling clothing ...

The Sears Roebuck and Co. building has been a fixture in Hackensack since its opened in 1932 on the corner of Main Street and Anderson Street.

When Sears Roebuck and Co. opened in Hackensack in 1932 it was the largest department store in Bergen County and one of the tallest buildings in the region. The store closed in 2020.