For the less technical-minded, a variety of equipment suppliers, catalog merchants and consultants stand ready to meet the needs of the rolling work force.

The Sears store replaced a catalog merchant located downtown.

While ordinary stores and catalog merchants have struggled for sales growth this holiday season, online retailers are having their best year yet.

A catalog merchant (catalogue merchant in British and Canadian English) is a form of retailing.

Lillian Vernon Corporation is an American catalog merchant and online retailer that sells household, children's and fashion accessory products.

Ellman's was a major catalog merchant, similar to now-defunct Service Merchandise.

J. Crew, which began as a catalog merchant, now has 195 stores, including 43 factory outlets.

The company, a privately held Web and catalog merchant of international artwork and crafts, is also becoming a distributor to conventional retail stores.

In 2002, Lands' End was the world's fourth largest catalog merchant and the largest online seller of apparel.

Newport News, the less-well-known catalog merchant, took in $337 million, and Eddie Bauer sold $1.4 billion.