Sears Stores Could Be Consigned To History As Final Five Face Closure

There were once over 3,400 Sears stores embedded in U.S. everyday life, yet the final five could shutter in the coming days ...
Southeast Missourian

The history of Sears in the region

Sears, Roebuck & Co. once dominated the mail-order industry by offering a catalog full of nearly every product imaginable. Then the company hit on an idea: what if Sears could offer an entire home ...
WRAL

Sears is leaving Minnesota, closing another door on its history

In the early 1990s, the bold blue letters of a Sears sign were raised above the entrance to one of four anchor stores at the sprawling new Mall of America near Minneapolis. In the heyday of shopping ...
Yahoo

Inside the last Sears: How a dominant Miami department store has changed. What’s next?

It’s 1959 and the Sears at Douglas Road and Coral Way is the most popular place around. People swarm the department store for just about everything. Crowds line up at the candy counter. Drivers wait ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Key dates in the history of Sears Roebuck and Co.

--Dec. 7, 1863: Richard W. Sears born in Stewartville, Minn. --1886: Sears, a railroad station agent who sells coal as a side job, buys unwanted watches from jeweler and founds R.W. Sears Watch Co. in ...