A view from the author's desk, featuring two of his favorite fictional characters (and Yadier Molina) Photo: Whet Moser The other day I found myself telling my four-year-old daughter that there's no ...

A few weeks ago, while taking two of my now-teenage granddaughters shopping for outfits for a sports banquet, I became nostalgic. As we were walking through Penney’s, I tried to explain to them the ...

When I heard the news that Sears may finally be going out of business, I had two reactions: 1) You mean it’s still in business? And 2) How are children supposed to learn about the world’s vast array ...

In mid-December 2015, an image purportedly showing a vintage 1950s Sears catalog ad featuring a smiling family all holding rifles began circulating on Facebook: That ad is indeed real, although it was ...

Amazon will be mailing out its first-ever holiday toy catalog to millions of shoppers this year. Amazon's toy catalog is reminiscent of the iconic holiday guides distributed by Sears and the ...

Amazon, knowing that print is essentially dead, has decided to capitalize on the collective nostalgia directly related to the death of retail. With Toy 'R' Us now a thing of the past and classic ...

If Jeff Bezos had been around in the late 19th century, he probably would have done what Sears & Roebuck did — become that era’s retail innovator. And if Sears had been more like Bezos’ Amazon in this ...