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During the 1970s and 1980s, Service Merchandise was a leading catalog-showroom retailer. At its peak, the company achieved more than $4 billion in annual sales. As the company expanded, it began to open showrooms nationwide, mostly in the vicinity of major shopping malls, which were in vogue in the 1970s.
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Best Products Company, Inc., or simply Best, was a chain of American catalog showroom retail stores founded by Sydney and Frances Lewis in 1957 and formerly headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The company was in existence for four decades before closing all of their stores by February 1997 and completely liquidating by December 1998.
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.
Company was liquidated in 1999, though some chains it operated, including Bakers, have survived. Fashion Bug – plus-size women's clothing retailer that once spanned more than 1000 stores. Parent company Charming Shoppes, which owned other plus-size retailers including Lane Bryant, shuttered the brand in early 2013.
Barnes Distribution Showcases New 2012-2013 Digital Master Catalog CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Barnes Distribution, a business of Barnes Group Inc. (NYS: B) , and the leader in vendor-managed ...
The catalog showroom approach allows customers to shop without having to carry their purchases throughout the store as they shop. Possible downsides include that customers may be required to give their contact information when an order is placed, take the time to fill out order forms, and wait a period of time for their order to be available ...
In 1990 and 1991, some stores became Toy City/Consumers Distributing stores. They closed in the mid-1990s. Consumers Distributing was bought by the Quebec-based grocery retailer Provigo in 1987, [ citation needed ] then was sold in 1993 to a group controlled by Ackermans & van Haaren , a Belgian holding company.