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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. 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 ...

Service Merchandise Co. (SVCDQ.OB) disclosed Wednesday that the January departure of two senior executives cost the struggling retailer almost $2 million in severance benefits. The company's SEC ...

Service Merchandise is closing all of its stores by the end of March. The store is offering 50 to 70 percent discounts on jewelry and 40 percent off on patio furniture, with even deeper discounts ...