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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Keeping to a schedule announced in January, Federated Department Stores Inc. said it will lay off 3,300 Fingerhut employees next week, including 3,000 in Minnesota. Federated said ...

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, ...