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Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer. From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 of these houses in North America, by the company's count. [ 1 ]
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 catalog and retail chain was also interested in working out a deal. Starting in 1945, Sears executive, Theodore Houser, discussed the idea with Kaiser-Frazer. [3] Allstate automobiles were planned to be built on the senior Kaiser platforms. The concept came together after Kaiser-Frazer developed the affordable Henry J model. [3]
In 2012, Sears Canada chief Calvin McDonald hand-delivered Christmas catalogs [12] to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Sears Wish Book. [13] Sears Canada launched an iPad app for the 2013 Christmas Wish Book which was at the time ranked as the number one free iPad app in Canada in the Catalogue category. [14]
In 1883, the company's catalog had grown to 240 pages and 10,000 items. In 1896, Ward encountered its first serious competition in the mail order business, when Richard Warren Sears introduced his first general catalog.
In 1906 Albert James Aubrey, former plant superintendent for Wilkes-Barre Gun Co. and the designer of Aubrey shotguns, became the vice president of Meriden Firearms for Sears. Two years later he became president of the division, a position he held until 1916. [4] During his time at Sears, Aubrey filed for and received 8 patents related to ...
For generations of Americans, the Sears catalog was a window to the culture of consumerism, a source of amusement, and even a supply of toilet paper in the years before indoor plumbing. From 1888
In May 2022, it was announced that roughly 100 more Sears Hometown stores would close permanently, [30] This came shortly after the company announced plans to close 70 Hometown stores. [31] By September 2022 the number of remaining stores was less than 150. [32] On December 13, 2022, Sears Hometown filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. [26]