Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...renewed demand for big-ticket items has bolstered many retailers. Consumer installment credit has expanded considerably since the beginning of November. Sears, Roebuck reported a surge of major purchases in the final quarter of last year that has continued through January. "It is clear to us that the recovery in durables and home furnishings has started," says Edward Brennan, chairman of the chain...
When Sears Roebuck & Co. acquired the brokerage house of Dean Witter Reynolds 13 months ago, the jeers from Wall Street could be heard as far away as Sears' Chicago headquarters. Old-line stockbrokers sniffed that well-heeled clients would not want to invest their savings with the same company that sold Craftsman power tools and Kenmore automatic washers. The giant retailer figured differently, and last July it opened Sears Financial Network outlets in eight of its 829 U.S. department stores to test the concept of selling "stocks and socks...
...unforgiving as this year's outlook is, the prospect of a prosperous selling season was even dimmer 49 years ago, when Sears, Roebuck & Co. published its first Christmas catalogue. In that Depression year, unemployment was almost 25%, and the Sears "wish" book carried the blue eagle of the National Recovery Administration on its cover. The dollar as we know it today was worth...
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There have long been the big all-purpose books, like Sears, Roebuck, and Montgomery Ward, that deposit a cross-section of the economy in the living room and can take care of every domestic need. The new wave involves far thinner works with fancier fare, specialized offerings that focus with almost microscopic accuracy on the needs of pet lovers, woodcarvers, fond parents, alpinists, anglers, horticulturists, computer buffs, flyers and collectors of everything recondite from antique musical instruments and classic autos to Judaica and museum reproductions...