Not that I would want to go back. As the big department store catalogs went away, smaller, specialty catalogs began flooding America’s mail boxes. There are catalogs for foods many people order ...

While retailers hope to go big this holiday season, customers may notice that the catalogs arriving in their mailboxes are ...

who spent 35 years working in department stores and in the wholesale industry. Targeting customers at home is not a new concept. L.L. Bean was a pioneer of the mail-order catalog after its founder ...