The Service Merchandise store on Mercury Boulevard – a seller of jewelry, electronics and other home products – is closing its dorrs after nine years in business. The store at Todd Center is one of ...

Retail businesses often have similar histories. They start small, often in a tiny storefront. As they grow, they may move into a shopping center. After many years of being in business, they may falter ...

In an effort to save an estimated $35 million in 2001, Nashville, Tenn.-based Service Merchandise laid off about 1,750 full-time employees Jan. 10 and announced plans to restructure its core business.

Here’s a novel idea: Gary Witkin, the new president and chief operating officer of Service Merchandise Co., is determined to transform the company’s 405 stores into 405 . . . stores. As crazy as that ...

As a new fire station is being built nearby, the long-closed Service Merchandise store is starting to be demolished. The Tax Increment Finance Authority has awarded a contract to demolish the building ...

NASHVILLE,, Tenn., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Service Merchandise Co. Inc., once the nation's top catalog-showroom retailer, said Friday that it will go out of business and close all of its more than 200 stores ...

Service Merchandise Co. Inc., the last catalog-showroom chain in the United States, said yesterday that it will shut down four of six Maryland stores by the end of the week as part of earlier plans to ...

A Schaumburg man has been charged in connection with the recent robbery of a Service Merchandise store, and authorities are searching for the stolen money as well as the handgun used in the theft, ...

A 33-year-old man was arrested Friday and charged with robbing the Service Merchandise store east of Leesburg two weeks ago. Michael Lamar Gray of 6517 N. Terrell Road, Tangerine, was charged with ...