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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...