Sears, Roebuck and Co. is a broadline retailer with significant service and credit businesses. The company offers its wide range of apparel, home and automotive products and services to families in the U.S. through Sears stores nationwide, as well as offering a variety of merchandise and services through its website. In June 2002, Sears acquired Lands' End, a direct merchant of traditionally styled, classic Lands' End clothing offered to customers around the world through regular mailings of its specialty catalogs and online.