Sears has just closed its last locations in these states
The retailer has been having trouble for years, and the last closures are another blow.
A Searsbig store was probably a staple food in your hometown shopping center. The brand is a familiar name, but if you have not noticed a sign for Sears for some time, there is a reason. The retailer has quickly closed locations since he filed a record in October 2018. This month, Sears made another series of closures, leaving two states without any stores. Read more to find out which places have closed their doors for good.
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Sears closings have been creeping.
At the time of his glory, Sears was the ideal place for American buyers, even becoming the largest American retailer of the 1980s. But like other department stores, Sears began to fight financially in the following decades and A summerBought by Kmart In 2004 in order to save the two brands. Plans will turn around, like the two retailersended up depositing For chapter 11 of bankruptcy 14 years later,Forbesreported. Since that time, brick and mortar stores have started to disappear, and there is only one fraction in operation today.
In addition to the emblematic department stores, the retailer - owned by the Mother Transformco company - offers smaller hometown stores. In 2019, there were 750 hometown stores, which generallySell tools and devices And are operated by "independent or franchise dealers of transformco affiliates", reported CNN Business.
The number of shops in the hometown has quickly decreased in the past three years, but they have represented the majority of the 300 Sears and Kmart stores still in progress in September 2021, according to a press release published inUnited States today By transformco. It was not until May 2022, when the tides really turned for the stores of the hometown of Sears, because CNN reported that 100 locations closed, representing about half of its "remaining retail imprint" .
Now another Sears department store and a store in the hometown of Sears have said goodbye for good.
A state will see the last of its Sears stores.
This month, a store in the hometown of Sears in Walterboro, in South Carolina, closed her store, with the ownerTeresa BusbeeNote that the decision was out of his hands. Busbee announced the closure for the first time in an article on Facebook of September 15, "with a heavy heart", adding that there would be oneliquidation sale From the next day.
Busbee later told Walterboro Live that his customers had nothing to do with the closure. decisioncame from top, she said, and completely eliminated the presence of the South Carolina retailer.
"I want people to know that it does not happen because the community has not supported us," she said. "It had nothing to do with the community or the property. It was strictly a corporate decision taken by Sears. We were taken in this wave of closures, and there is another coming. To more Sears in South Carolina stores. "
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A Sears department store has also closed a store in New York.
Newburgh Mall, Newburgh, New York,officially said goodbye At its Sears location on October 16, WRV Radio reported. The news of the closure was originally announced on Facebook on August 31, with many commentators writing on how much they would do itMiss the store And its place in the community.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
The location was the latest Sears department store operating in New York, WRV reported, and Newburgh Mall itself is being renovated with the addition of the World Hudson Valley Resorts casino.
A fraction of Sears stores remains and more closures are imminent.
It seems that certain stores in the hometown of Sears aresure for now, like the store's location page listed 144 still in service in the 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. We do not know how often the page is updated, but the location of Waltersboro has been deleted and no other store is listed in South Carolina.
Other Sears stores are not doing too. As of September 24, Brostocks reported that 23 Sears stores wereStill in service, with still five to close, including the site of Newburgh. Also on the cutting block is anchorage, Alaska Sears Home & Life Store - a smaller model thatmainly sells Mattress, household appliances and domestic products, according to CNBC - and the store of devices and mattresses in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sears department stores should close definitively in Burbank, California, and Union Gap, Washington. It is not clear when the California store isGet the boot, but that does it alongside the Bed bathtub and beyond In downtown Burbank, Kabc Abc-Affiliate Kabc reported. The Union Gap store is planned to close By November 20, according to the world of Wenatchee, citing Yakima Herald-Republic .
