People swarm the department store for just about everything ... as a mail-order retailer of watches by Richard W. Sears and ...

WLS’ founder, Sears, Roebuck and Co., was already doing that with its mail-order catalog. It provided access to consumer goods to households many, many miles from a department store. The call ...

There were two holy books in our family home at Christmastime: their titles were Sears Roebuck and Montgomery ... had nothing whatsoever like a department store. I didn’t realize such wonders ...