The town council Tuesday unanimously approved plans for an upscale natural food store in Bishops Corner. Wild Oats Community Market will occupy the space left vacant by the closing of Service ...

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 ...

Retail businesses often have similar histories. They start small, often in a tiny storefront. As they grow, they may move into a shopping center. After many years of being in business, they may falter ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — I started my journalism career in Bridgeport, W.Va. Most of my colleagues were the same age, give or take a couple of years. We all moved away from home, worked long and ...

Service Merchandise was once one of Middle Tennessee's most successful businesses for decades until the changing retail landscape derailed it 20 years ago. Originally called Shainberg & Zimmerman's ...

Catalog showroom retailing peaked in the early 1980s, and all but a few small companies disappeared by the end of the 1990s. But one former catalog showroom executive isn’t ready to let go of one of ...

Here’s a novel idea: Gary Witkin, the new president and chief operating officer of Service Merchandise Co., is determined to transform the company’s 405 stores into 405 . . . stores. As crazy as that ...

Struggling retailer Service Merchandise Co. Inc., the last catalog-showroom chain in the United States, will close more than a third of its stores in the next three to four months in a restructuring ...

Service Merchandise Co. said it will close all of its 200 stores and eliminate half of its 1,000 corporate employees as the recession and fallout from the Sept. 11 attacks crippled the chain. The ...