Sears’ bankruptcy filing on Monday drummed up plenty of nostalgia for its heyday as the world’s biggest retailer. As Hoffman Estates-based Sears Holdings Corp. works to save its business, there’s no ...

WASHINGTON — Even if you didn’t order anything from last year’s Ikea catalog, the annual, full-color, 300-plus-page paper edition can be put to good use. Ikea will use shredded, recycled catalogs as ...

In one TV commercial from this year’s Toys R Us holiday campaign, a mom sweats through her cycling workout while her suspiciously helpful daughter tries to stir up a breeze. “I’m just gonna leave this ...

Though catalogs are using bigger and better photos and less text, they are increasingly a go-to medium to entice shoppers, even by online-only retailers, according to the Wall Street Journal. Bonobos, ...

Here is a blast from the past. My audio guru pal Steve Williams found these old Allied Electronics catalogs at the electronics flea market last Saturday. We all had a great time flipping through them ...

It’s not 1939 outside. But this unfortunate date (see above) hasn’t prevented me from perusing, in some detail, the Fall-Winter catalog from Sears, Roebuck and Co. They are perhaps my only costly vice ...

Steve Williams, my ever-vigilant audio guru friend just sent a couple cute links. One is for a site that archives old Radio Shack catalogs. It includes the 1939 catalog, although it is on that ...