Between 1908 and 1940, Sears sold more than 100,000 houses this way. They came in 447 different styles. Today, modular and mobile homes come on a flatbed trucks, partially or fully constructed.

Richard Sears, a railroad station agent, started selling watches as a side business in North Redwood, Minnesota. The following year, he moved to the company's first Chicago location and hired ...

Customers still go to the last Sears store in Miami, as seen here in the central aisle that runs from store front to back at the “Coral Gables store.” That’s what longtime customers call the ...

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (CBS) --An era has come to an end in northwest suburban Hoffman Estates, as crews on Thursday were working to tear down the old Sears, Roebuck and Co. corporate headquarters.

The Sears Home & Life store on 6327 W. 119th St. is covered with signs announcing it will close. Jenna Thompson [email protected] The Sears store in Johnson County, the last in the Kansas City ...

The “other Sears” is in financial turmoil, just like its more famous parent company. Sears Hometown Stores Inc., a franchise-owned unit of Sears, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Sears Holdings has emerged from bankruptcy after more than 10,000 court filings and a four-year stay that saw the department store chain shrink from almost 700 stores to less than two dozen. The ...

Former Sears CEO Eddie Lampert has reached a settlement with his creditors to move Sears out of bankruptcy for a mere $179 million that would release the billionaire hedge fund mogul of any ...

J. Hughes Shoppers may no longer come in droves for wrenches, watches or washing machines. But Sears, the once-ubiquitous department store that has been battered by the growth of e-commerce ...

Sears continues on its path to the retail graveyard. Late Friday night, Transformco, Sears’ parent company, quietly posted new “temporary store closing” employment positions at five of its ...

Diana Linville, of Padroni, Colorado, bought a freezer from Sears with the promise it would be delivered in a month. Freezers became one of the nation’s most sought after supplies early in the ...

UPDATE: This latest round of closings remains fluid. The Valley Stream, New York Sears location appeared on the list Saturday afternoon, January 30, 2021. Virginia’s Dulles Town Center location ...