Before shoppers could track packages on phones, buying goods required a catalog, a pencil, and a clerk. Retailers like ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Service Merchandise Co. Inc., a 42-year-old retail chain that has operated under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since March 1999, announced Friday that it is going out of business ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Service Merchandise was once one of Middle Tennessee's most successful businesses for decades until the changing retail landscape ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Service Merchandise Co. Inc., the nation's top catalog-showroom retailer for decades, Friday announced it would liquidate its assets and close its more than 200 stores in 32 ...

Service Merchandise never would have gone out of business if company officials hadn’t hired Bill Cosby as a pitchman in the late 1980s, the company’s CEO Sam Cusano says. Cosby was still at the height ...

Bankrupt retailer Service Merchandise Co. said Friday that it is going out of business. The retailer, which has been selling gifts, jewelry and home decor products for 42 years, said its 8,300 store ...

MONTGOMERY: Closing the distribution center will mean the loss of 250 jobs. Service Merchandise announced plans yesterday to close its distribution center in the Town of Montgomery by June 16, ...

NASHVILLE,, Tenn., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Service Merchandise Co. Inc., once the nation's top catalog-showroom retailer, said Friday that it will go out of business and close all of its more than 200 stores ...

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 ...