The holiday season is upon us, full throttle, and although 2005 is already a vague memory in the futuristic minds of channel marketers focusing on summer 2006, the “Shopping Methods & Mindsets” study ...

It has been 62 years since Appleseed’s was founded in Beverly, and about 12 years since the women’s clothing retailer closed 17 retail stores – including a successful one in Cohasset – and became ...

Shakespeare’s Juliet isn’t the only one to ask what’s in a name. Apparel and home goods cataloger Lands’ End is pondering the same question. Earlier this year the Dodgeville, WI-based mailer changed ...

A sure sign of the changing seasons appears in mailboxes when catalogs begin spilling out en masse. Catalog businesses send them expecting that the predominantly female recipients will shop, and women ...

A selection of photos show how the Ikea catalog is heavily Photoshopped according to which country it is being distributed in. The Ikea catalog is one of the world’s most widely distributed books ...

In the 1880s, it was bustles and corsets. In the 1950s, it was girdles and cone-shaped brassieres. These days, it’s Spanx and liposuction. The White River Valley Museum’s “Suffer for Beauty” ...