The Figi's mail order catalog, known for its offerings like holiday gifts and gourmet food, recently shut down its catalog division. The state of Wisconsin is famous for a number of things — beer, ...

Gardeners have relied on the mail for centuries. Long before mail-order nurseries first sent their catalogs to customers, gardeners wrote to friends asking for a piece of a peony root, a tulip bulb or ...

Connie, my wife, is a mail-order catalog shopper. Given her busy work schedule, mail-order catalog shopping is quick and convenient, an effective utilization of her spare time. The system works ...

The internet hasn’t killed off the mail-order catalog. Discover a list of popular mail order catalogs from direct-to-consumer ...

More than half of all catalog orders are now being placed online. Not surprisingly, this has led to many marketers eliminating order forms from their print catalogs. But such a move shouldn’t be based ...

A mail-order business is one that receives and fulfills orders for merchandise through the mail. The terms “mail-order,” “direct mail,” and “direct marketing” are sometimes used interchangeably; in ...

“Sports suits” and “suspender skirts” might not be the focus of New York Fashion Week but we’re enjoying the vintage charm found in a Smithsonian Trade Literature Collection from the early 20th ...

All of us in the rural South (many years ago) used to order most everything from the mail-order catalogs. Sears was then called Sears Roebuck & Co. and was the biggest mail-order company, followed by ...

If you're clicking through the internet today hoping to do a little shopping, you likely have Aaron Montgomery Ward to thank. Ward's catalog was a single sheet offering 163 items. By 1884, the catalog ...