Fat, glossy catalogs used to proclaim the beginning of the holiday season, but times have changed. Today, many of us skip the store and order online, so most catalogs have gone the way of the dodo.

Did you know that the number of U.S. consumers who shop from catalogs rose 7% during the past two years? That’s just one of the statistics uncovered by our survey of more than 1,000 shoppers coast to ...