NEW ON THE BUSINESS SCENE: NEW SEARS DEALER STORE OPENS DOORS IN SIKESTON

SIKESTON -- A new Sears Roebuck & Co. retail dealer store opened recently in Sikeston. Owners of the store are William D. and Vivian Johnson. The store, at 1016 Linn St., offers appliances, home electronics and lawn and garden equipment. The store is one of 31 retail dealer stores opened by Sears since June of 1993, when it was announced that Sears would no longer have product catalogs. Many of the new retail dealer stores were previously catalog stores...