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Ten years later, Wilson opened his first catalog showroom.

Best employed the "catalog showroom" concept for many of its product offerings.

This wait may be days long, one of the chief vulnerabilities of the catalog showroom approach.

I had come into town looking for a job, and had gotten an assistant manager's job in a local catalog showroom.

By 1982, Wilson's was the third-largest catalog showroom chain in the United States.

For a few years, W.M. Green had a catalog showroom.

The catalog showroom approach allows customers to shop without having to carry their purchases throughout the store as they shop.

Halle's later became a Dahlkemper's catalog showroom, which closed in 1993.

Witmark was a catalog showroom and jewelry/electronics chain that operated in West Michigan from 1969 to 1997.

Big K-Edwards closed and Wilson's Catalog Showrooms moved into the space.

As the catalog showroom fad started to die down, Fred Meyer was experiencing excellent sales growth in the fine jewelry category.

Until 1986, Zales operated a catalog showroom called O. G. Wilson.

Federal's later became Foland's Catalog Showroom.

In 1984, construction began on the Outdoor World Catalog Showroom in Springfield, Missouri.

Over time, the mall was expanded, with Rhodes also converting to JCPenney and a Best catalog showroom.

Fred Meyer Jewelers started in 1973 as a catalog showroom concept by Fred Meyer.

The first of what evolved into a huge chain of catalog showrooms opened in 1960 on Broadway St. in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

Woolco closed its Tanglewood location in 1983, and the space was renovated to create a Brendle's catalog showroom.

Best Products Catalog Showroom; Langhorne, Pennsylvania (1978)

Initially running the business out his basement, Snyder shortly thereafter moved into a storefront in Morristown, New Jersey, with a catalog showroom store format.

Woolco closed later that same year, and its space was eventually divided among a Service Merchandise catalog showroom, a new food court, and additional retail space.

The mall, including a Witmark catalog showroom as an anchor store, closed in the late 1990s and was converted into the current home of Mars Hill.

Service Merchandise (originally Edward's and Big K-Edward's, then Wilson's Catalog Showroom)

Brendle's was a chain of catalog showrooms based in Elkin, North Carolina, USA.

The former Richard's/Burdines building was torn down for J. Luria and Sons, a local catalog showroom chain, which opened at the mall in 1994.

It is also home to one of Europe's largest computer catalog stores.

Johnson also closed Spiegel's remaining catalog stores.

DBMS catalog stores the description of the database.

For example: Software Catalog stores version and other information for each software package installed on a local system.

The Laser 128 was aggressively marketed, both by mail order firms and in retail and catalog stores such as Sears.

It marked a return of the national store to full-scale operation in Little Rock, where it had operated only a catalog store downtown for 11 years.

From the 1890s to the 1920s, A&S utilized a system of catalog store agencies across Long Island to serve customers.

He bought a vacant one-story brick building that had been a catalog store on the western edge of the Old Town and renovated it for his own company's use.

At catalog stores, some items could be ordered from the floor, such as appliances; other items could be ordered from catalogs at the store.

The largest single space, 56,000 sq. ft., once a J.C. Penney catalog store, then a Publix, was until 2011 the Mercado del Pueblo Hispanic supermarket.

Toronto: U.S.A.: The Great American McClelland and Stewart, Catalog Store and How It Grew.

She and Varena had to take Anna to a friend's birthday party, and then to pick up Anna's flower girl dress, which was being shipped to the local Penney's catalog store after some delay.

Connie Hallquist, the owner of an online and catalog store called Gold Violin (www.goldviolin.com; 877-648-8400) in Charlottesville, Va., says her Internet sales have increased about 25 percent a year since she started in 1999.

It originally included a Safeway supermarket (opened in August 1954, months earlier than the remainder of the center), a Rodgers five-and-dime, a Sears catalog store, and several other shops, along with a bank and a gas station.

But now that 40 percent of home users and 95 percent of work users have high-speed connections, according to the Internet research firm comScore Networks, so-called virtual catalogs are fast becoming a staple on catalog stores' Web sites.

Robinson was born on April 21, 1962, in Chicago, Illinois, to Fraser Robinson, a city water plant employee and Democratic precinct captain, and Marian Robinson (née Shields), a secretary at Spiegel's catalog store.

By 1972-73, a small indoor mall was created, situated between the strip shopping center and the S. Klein store, that included a 6-screen theater, steakhouse, a branch of George's appliance store chain, an ice cream shop, and in-house catalog store.

In between, it had a mix of locally owned establishments: a pharmacy, a liquor store, a hardware store, a bank, a small department store, several restaurants, a J. C. Penney catalog store, a lawyer's office and the Galli-Curci Theater, now converted into an antique center.

"This is the missing link that we've all been waiting for," said Evelyn Badger, the owner of a Sears Catalog Store in Canyonville, Ore., and co-director of Workers of Oregon Development, a community group that represents loggers, farmers, and business owners.

Department stores proved to be one of the most adversely affected retail sectors.22 Their inability to adapt to changing consumer tastes and the emergence of new retail channels that targeted specific consumer segments-specialty stores (especially so-called "category killers"), catalog stores, and mass merchants-led to erosion in market share.