Service Merchandise was once one of Middle Tennessee's most successful businesses for decades until the changing retail landscape derailed it 20 years ago. Originally called Shainberg & Zimmerman's ...

Service Merchandise Co. said it will close all of its 200 stores and eliminate half of its 1,000 corporate employees as the recession and fallout from the Sept. 11 attacks crippled the chain. The ...

Analyst insight: Former retail chain Service Merchandise nailed fulfillment and omni-channel in the 1980s with its innovative showroom-catalog approach. Here’s what the modern-day retailer can learn ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Service Merchandise Co. (SVCDQ.OB) outlined a business plan for 2001 that refines its focus on its jewelry, details intensive merchandising efforts, describes its subleasing and remodeling of stores ...

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