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As a result, this retail sector went into decline in the 1980s. As big box stores and internet shopping became increasingly popular in the 1990s, the decline of the catalog merchant business accelerated. Many companies in recent years have moved away from relying solely on catalog sales, augmenting them with online sales or direct retail.
Best employed the "catalog showroom" concept for many of its product offerings. Although some product categories (such as sporting goods and toys) were stocked in traditional self-serve aisles, the majority of products (notably consumer electronics, housewares, and appliances) were featured as unboxed display models.
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Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
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In 1947, the company was the fourth-largest mail-order distributor in the United States with $79.2 million in sales and changed its name to Aldens, Inc. [2] In 1957, sales were $102.4 million, they had 4,795 employees, and operated catalog telephone stores in 68 cities. [2]
Catalogs and Counters: A History of Sears, Roebuck and Company (1950), the standard scholarly history; Heine, Irwin M. "The Influence of Geographic Factors in the Development of the Mail Order Business", American Marketing Journal (1936) 3#2 pp. 127–130 in JSTOR; Latham, Frank B. 1872–1972: A Century of Serving Consumers.