Dori Zinn loves helping people learn and understand money. She's been covering personal finance for a decade and her writing has appeared in Wirecutter, Credit Karma, Huffington Post and more. Some ...

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 ...

If you have less-than-stellar credit or no credit, you could have difficulty getting approved for a credit card. This may leave you with few options to establish a good credit score, and as a result, ...

The new Fingerhut fall/winter catalog, which dropped Nov. 9, will appeal to the same sub-prime-credit demographic as the old Fingerhut catalog. “That’s what works in our opinion,” said Mary Pernula, ...

ST. CLOUD (AP) -- A skeleton crew is on hand at Fingerhut Direct Marketing's distribution center here to handle the first incoming orders as the former Fingerhut catalog business resumes under new ...

Ted Deikel, the former owner of Fingerhut Cos., and a partner plan to buy parts of the catalog retailer from Federated Department Stores Inc. Deikel, and his partner, Tom Petters, said they had ...

General merchandise cataloger Fingerhut has seen its share of ups and downs since being sold in 1999 to Federated Department Stores: It was shut down in January 2002, acquired by several investors in ...

Taking care of your household spending isn’t particularly an easy affair. It takes a lot of planning to get something you really want while also making sure you don’t go over your budget. Thankfully, ...