HOW MANY screens are in your bedroom-turned-office? We’re bombarded by blue light from our laptops and phones as we scroll through emails, Slack chats, Instagram, Twitter or whatever e-comm site that ...

Nothing slices and dices information like the Internet. Take, for example, the Web site FlipSeek.com, which is a directory of online catalogs. The site unites information already available to ...

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 ...

Thirty-five years ago, print media was having a renaissance. And the uncontested leader of the medium, with more cultural relevance than most magazines or books, was a clothing catalog, delivered free ...

The private-equity owner of the women’s clothing catalogs Spiegel and Newport News is close to buying Massachusetts-based mail-order company Appleseed’s, according to sources familiar with the deal.

Q: Several years ago I shopped at Koret outlet stores in Smithfield and Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head in South Carolina, among other outlet stores. Then all of those outlet stores closed, and I was ...

Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has pulled its controversial in-store catalogs after outraged parents, conservative Christian groups and child advocates threatened a boycott over material they ...

The J. Crew clothing brand, launched in 1983 by Arthur Cinader, evoked a world of effortless style, Ivy League schools and breezy summers on Nantucket—a version of the preppy lifestyle that became so ...