“Sears has everything,” America’s once largest retail chain used to tell its shoppers during its heyday back in the early 1970s. These days the slowly-fading-away retailer would have to more aptly say ...

Sears has been an American icon for more than a century, but its more recent turbulent years plagued by consumer defections, store closings and bankruptcy may soon culminate in liquidation. We'll know ...

Sears sold mail-order kit homes from 1908 to 1942, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Few Sears kit homes were sold in Florida, likely due to shipping logistics and the homes' ...

Ancestry.com now has the complete collection of Sears, Roebuck and Company catalogs from 1896 to 1993, spring and fall seasons, available for viewing on its website. Comprising more than 250,000 pages ...

The birthplace of Sears, Roebuck & Co. was this railroad station, left, in North Redwood, Minn. A young station agent there, Richard W. Sears, right, launched the business in 1886 and moved to Chicago ...