Sears is to liquidate the inventory and closes his last store in another state
The retailer formerly emblematic will lose another place in the coming weeks.
The retail industry can be ruthless, and Sears can be a perfect example of how tables can turn even for some of its greatest players. The retailer formerly Iconic experienced a significant fall In recent years, leading it to anything but disappear from the card. Even if the company has trouble staying afloat, a handful of locations still manage to hang on. But now Sears seems to close one of its rare outposts who plan to close its last store in another state. Read the rest to see which area will say goodbye to the old pillar of the shopping center.
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Sears soon closes its last location in another state.
North Carolina buyers will soon be without access to a Sears location. The retailer closes his last store in the state, located in The friendly center In Greensboro, local CBS reports are working WFMY.
As of April 17, management did not announce a last official day of work, but signs and banners suspended near the entrance to the store alerts the buyers that the days of the location are indeed counted. Closing sales are also underway to liquidate the inventory before closing, reports the press press.
The location of the 3200 West Friendly Avenue has become the last Sears store in North Carolina after two sites in Concord have already been closed. The owners of the purchasing store also confirmed development in a declaration in WFMY, saying: "The closure of Sears is the first step in an active redevelopment plan, which offers CBL [Properties] the possibility of redeveloping goods first -rate real estate in one of our best performing. Properties. "
The retailer has less than 20 remaining locations in the United States.
While Sears dominates the landscape of retail, its figures now decrease seriously. The last closure of North Carolina will leave the chain with just 18 stores In the United States, according to the retail data company Scraphero.
Currently, California and Florida, each have three remaining locations of the department store in narrowing, followed by two in Texas. In addition, Kansas, Virginia, Washington, New Jersey, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Virginia-Western and Massachusetts all have a single Sears store, as well as that in Puerto Rico.
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Sears has struggled to stay afloat over the past decade.
Given his current , it can be difficult to remember how Sears was once synonymous with shopping. The company that began as a mail ordering company at the turn of the 20th century has accumulated to become the The largest retailer in the United States In the 1980s, branching into the credit card and the real estate sector during its peak, Bloomberg reported. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
in a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy deposit in 2018, by CNBC .
Unfortunately, the move only complicated the way to follow for the retailer in difficulty after the creditors and the suppliers brought a Company trial who wounded in court for almost four years. And while the company finally withdrew from bankruptcy last October, the decreased state of the retailer made Any type of return To his old glory, something of a longhot.
"They do not have an attractive value proposal to customers, and the amount of competition on the retail market offering similar goods means that the end will take place at a given time" " Ray Wimer , PHD, retail teacher at the University of Syracuse, told Fox Business last November.
Customers say that even the remaining locations are not up to the inheritance of the store.
Those nostalgic for the shopping Sears experience can comfort themselves in the fact that there are still barely a dozen open stores. But many of those who are old enough to recall the old glory of the retailer Current state of the company can leave much to be desired.
"I just came in search of sales. But it's so empty, and there is not much among the choice", "Sears shopper Tracy Easterling said CNN last November. "At the time, you could come and get most of the things you needed in a store", adding that the last location of the remaining New Jersey where she spoke seemed to be empty for a well-filled vacation shopping weekend .
Others have pointed out how unhappy change was. "I used to shop here years ago with my great-grandmother," Razeyah Surrell , a Sears client, told CNN. "I entered and said," Wow, it's sad. ""
