With fewer than 10 days to go in what has become a make-or-break Christmas shopping season for many retailers, the competitive pressures are beginning to show. Montgomery Ward & Co., the privately ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Fretter Inc. founder Oliver “Ollie” Fretter, 91, died ...

Oliver ‘Ollie’ Fretter, an electronics an appliance retailer known for his humorous commercials, died Sunday, June 29, at age 91 at his home in Bloomfield Hills, according to reports. Founder, owner ...

Before Best Buy and Circuit City dominated local chains, before Amazon rendered so much brick-and-mortar obsolete, and before Apple combined virtually all of your electronic devices into the iPod, ...

Fretter Inc., the Livonia, Mich.-based retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, said Tuesday that its ads comparing its prices to prices at Montgomery Ward & Co. ”are truthful, accurate in all ...