The nature of your business can determine future costs your company will incur and need to budget for. This is especially the case when comparing the two different structures of merchandise-based ...

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 ...

Service Merchandise Co. Inc., a 42-year-old home-and-jewelry specialty chain that has operated under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since March 1999, announced Friday that it is going out of ...

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 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 ...

The retired chairman of the defunct Service Merchandise is declaring in an email this week that “Service Merchandise is back!” Raymond Zimmerman, following the arduous bankruptcy proceedings and a ...

Service Merchandise is now offering 50 to 70 percent discounts on jewelry and 40 percent off on patio furniture -- with even deeper discounts expected in the final days -- in preparation for its final ...

Brentwood-based Kirkland Properties fended off a formidable competitor todayto win control of the former Service Merchandise headquarters property. Kirkland's high bid of $9.630 million was enough to ...

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 ...