It’s been 84 years since Sears launched its popular Christmas Book (which became known as the Wish Book beginning in 1968), full of items designed to make the holiday wish lists of every family ...

For so many people who grew up before the internet, the Sears catalog WAS the internet. The thick, heavy books had tools, dishes, TVs, clothes, appliances and just about anything else you’d need ...

The Christmas Wish Book was started in 1933 as a 87-page catalog "of wishes." The 1968 version had more than 600 pages. The Sears catalog was discontinued in 1993.

Sears won't be printing its iconic holiday Wish Book this year. It printed the catalog from 1933 to 2011, and once again in 2017. This year, it will only be available online, the Chicago Tribune ...

Sears Roebuck & Co. slaughtered the sacred cow yesterday. The Chicago-based giant announced yesterday that it was sacrificing its 97-year-old general merchandise catalog, along with 50,000 emp… ...

In the early 1900s, Sears sold thousands of homes around the U.S. through its mail-order catalogs. Many of those houses are still around, and their owners are saddened by the retailer's bankruptcy.

Sears is bringing back its Wish Book holiday catalog after a six-year hiatus. “Our members told us they missed the Wish Book, so we had to bring it back, but in a special way that lets you share ...

He lamented the end of Sears’ 124-year run. “I used to criticize Sears for leaving its roots and going into the suburbs and building the tallest building in the world in Chicago,” Young said.

Marketing strategies for Sears changed in the 1990s, when the outlet stores closed for good on Sept. 19, 1993, marking the end of the company's 105-year-old catalog operation.

Daniel O’Donnell made what he called “the first major purchase of my young life” from the Sears catalog. He saved his paper route earnings for a year to get the $35 to buy a 3-inch refractor ...