https://www.catalogperks.com/tags/cashback/Recent content in Cashback on CatalogPerks.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenCatalogPerks.comSat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.catalogperks.com/post/what-happened-to-the-sears-catalog/Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.catalogperks.com/post/what-happened-to-the-sears-catalog/ <h2 id="what-happened-to-the-sears-catalog-and-how-to-earn-today">What Happened to the Sears Catalog? (And How to Earn Today)</h2> <p>For most of the twentieth century, the Sears catalog was the way a large portion of American households shopped. Not browsed — shopped. Farm families in Iowa thumbed through its pages for work boots and seed planters. Suburban households in the 1960s ordered appliances from it. Children in December circled toy pages with red pens. At its peak the Sears Big Book ran to more than 1,000 pages, listed over 100,000 items, and was printed in quantities that rivaled the most widely distributed publications in the country. When Sears discontinued it on January 25, 1993, the company quietly closed a 105-year chapter in American retail history — one that began not with furniture or appliances but with a single-product mailer for watches.</p>