Nearly three years to the day after it bought Fingerhut as a means of getting into e-commerce, Federated Department Stores announced on Jan. 16 that it will close down the low-end general merchandise ...

I was over at a friend’s house the other day and saw that she’d gotten a Fingerhut catalog. It had come to her home in the name of a previous resident. But seeing it brought back memories of how, for ...

If you’re a Fingerhut shopper looking for ways to reduce your personal debt, bulk up your savings account or otherwise improve your financial bottom line, the single best thing you can do is stop ...

The union representing 1,500 Fingerhut employees has made a number of demands on Federated Department Stores Inc. including restarting catalog distribution as a signal that it is serious about selling ...

It’s a fact that might not bring a lot of comfort to consumers and businesses, but it’s true: The methods for protecting e-commerce transactions haven’t changed a great deal since online shopping ...

Federated Department Stores’ decision to rid itself of its Fingerhut subsidiary didn’t surprise most industry observers. After all, Federated had been reevaluating its ownership of Minnetonka, ...

Federated Department Stores Inc. said it expects to close on the sale of $1.2 billion in receivables from its former Fingerhut operation on or about July 12. Atlanta-based CompuCredit Corp. is buying ...

Every month brings a fresh cascade of data offering conflicting and often contradictory readings on the overall health of the economy. Here's a new one that proves more telling than most: The ...