The late, lamented catalog showroom retailer Service Merchandise is making a comeback of sorts. The success of a Service Merchandise jewelry Website launched in December has led to the test-mailing of ...

Service Merchandise Co.’s long struggle to overhaul its image culminates this week with the elimination of its timeworn catalog-showroom sales format. The Nashville, Tenn., company began reinventing ...

Service Merchandise, the one-time catalog showroom retailer that attempted a comeback through a mail order catalog last spring, has been tabled at least until early next year. Due to a lack of ...

At one time there were dozens of catalog showrooms claiming their prices were better than those at Sears, Roebuck and Co. or J.C. Penney Co. In the Chicago area alone, three catalog-showroom ...

Service Merchandise’s days as a traditional catalog store may be coming to an end. The company has begun a major overhaul, reorganizing its showrooms and moving to scrap what it considers a dated ...

I have very vivid memories about Service Merchandise, a now-defunct business with a unique ordering process focused on catalog inventory. For a kid, that kind of business model was the ultimate ...

Service Merchandise shrinking: The nation’s largest catalog showroom retailer, Service Merchandise Co. Inc., said it will shrink operations and close up to 134 underperforming stores over the next ...