The pages of the 1942 Sears Christmas catalog held much that might seem quaintly old-fashioned today. The department store retailer’s easy payment plan, which could be laid out in a simple grid, has ...

Receiving and thumbing through Macy's Christmas catalog is an age-old holiday season pastime, but print catalogs have largely disappeared over the years as most big chain stores have pivoted to an ...

Not long ago, Christmas catalogs didn’t appear in our mailboxes until around Thanksgiving, usually just after. Now the catalog deluge starts closer to Labor Day, 2 ½ months earlier, roughly coinciding ...

The Amazon Holiday Kids Gift Book, which just recently hit mailboxes months ahead of Christmas, has become the modern child’s wish book — a glossy stand-in for the toy store aisles their parents once ...

You may think catalogs are only for your grandma so she can complete her holiday shopping, but many retailers will disagree. According to the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), companies spent $10.4 ...

For Urban Outfitters, the choice of being naughty or nice in its 2012 Christmas holiday catalog was easy: naughty wins. The edgy apparel seller has shipped out a holiday catalog that's chock-full of ...

CAMBRIDGE It was the second “most wonderful day of the year.” While honors for the most wonderful day must still reside with the visit of Santa Claus, for many people of certain generations the second ...

The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney. I get a lot of Christmas catalogs with hundreds of gift ideas in them and I like getting them because there are ...