PORTLAND, Maine — Honey, they shrunk the catalogs. While retailers hope to go big this holiday season, customers may notice that the printed gift guides arriving in their mailboxes are smaller.

They saved the larger catalogs for more serious shopping. Before long, JCPenney got into the catalog business, issuing its own twice-yearly big books along with the smaller, but more important ...

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She said she would look through the JCPenney catalogs or the Sears Wish Book, marveling at magical items and fancy coats and earmuffs. “And, you know, it was a trip to New York (that I wanted ...

As a child I remember receiving the Sears and JC Penney Christmas catalogs in the fall and meticulously compiling a wish list complete with page numbers, item numbers and detailed product ...

Some of us circled the toys and left the catalog open to strategic pages for all to see. Or tore out pages and added them to ...

She said she would look through the JCPenney catalogs or the Sears Wish Book, marveling at magical items and fancy coats and earmuffs. “And, you know, it was a trip to New York (that I wanted ...

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The thick, heavy Sears and J.C. Penney catalogs that brought store displays to American living rooms slimmed down and gave way to targeted mailings once websites could do the same thing.

Major US retailers announced more than 7,300 store closures last year, up 57% from 2023, according to Coresight Research. That’s the highest annual number of closed stores since 2020, when the ...

The memories of poring over catalogs from Sears-Roebuck, J.C. Penney or Montgomery Ward are priceless. Some of us circled the toys and left the catalog open to strategic pages for all to see.

I remember the Christmas of 1985 like no other — that was the year my sisters and I got Cabbage Patch dolls. Seeing those ...