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Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [6] is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail-order catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [7]
The Sears, Roebuck and Company Retail Department Store Building in Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States, was built in 1927 and housed a Sears department store until 1971, when the store relocated to Moorestown Mall. It was South Jersey's first free-standing department store. [3]
Having started with mail order sales, Sears, Roebuck and Co. expanded to retail operations in 1925; by 1929 it was the third-largest retailer in the country, and it continued growing through the subsequent Great Depression. [1] Sears opened its first retail store in New York City in the Crown Heights neighborhood of
The Sears, Roebuck and Company catalog gave rural families low-cost products and greater choices than they could find in their local general stores. ... Sears debuted its first of itsGreat Indoors ...
FOND DU LAC — Long before local malls came and went as a one-stop shopping experience, Main Street department stores were the place to be. Sears Roebuck and Co. was the height of Fond du Lac ...
Alvah Curtis Roebuck (January 9, 1864 – June 18, 1948) was an American retail businessman, who was one of the co-founders of department store Sears, Roebuck and Company with his partner Richard Warren Sears.
Sears-Pico, Sears store at Pico and Rimpau, Mid-City, Los Angeles 1930s–1990s Sears, Roebuck and Company Department Store (Miami, Florida) , listed on the NRHP in Miami-Dade County, Florida Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex , Chicago, Illinois, listed on the NRHP in Chicago, Illinois
The Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex is a building complex in the community area of North Lawndale in Chicago, Illinois.The complex hosted most of department-store chain Sears' mail order operations between 1906 and 1993, and it also served as Sears' corporate headquarters until 1973, when the Sears Tower was completed.