Sears is closing another 46 stores. Here's where

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN-Money


by Chris Isidore @CNNMoney
August 23, 2018: 9:48 AM ET

Sears is swinging the ax again. The struggling retailer announced plans to close another 46 Sears and Kmart stores.

The company has already closed more than 100 stores this year -- including the last remaining Sears in its hometown of Chicago -- as it attempts to stem losses.

Employees at 13 Kmart stores and 33 Sears stores were notified that their locations would close by November.

When Sears and Kmart merged in 2005, they had about 3,500 US stores between them. About 900 US stores remain, and more closings are likely.

"We continue to evaluate our network of stores, which is a critical component to our integrated retail transformation, and will make further adjustments as needed," the company said in a statement.

Read more: https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/23/news/companies/sears-store-closings/index.html

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Kmarts:

Spring Valley, California,

Clovis, California,

Antioch, California

Los Angeles, California (at 6310 W. 3rd Street)

Milford, Connecticut

Newark, Delaware

Steger, Illinois

Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Columbus, Mississippi

Riverhead, New York

Gresham, Oregon

Scott Depot, West Virginia

Gillette, Wyoming

Sears:

Flagstaff, Arizona

Santa Cruz, California

Grand Junction, Colorado

Tampa, Florida (at University Square Mall)

Doral, Florida

Naples, Florida

Savannah, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

Brunswick, Georgia

Bloomington, Illinois

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Florence, Kentucky

Hammond, Louisiana

Holyoke, Massachusetts

Taunton, Massachusetts

Jackson, Michigan

Crabtree, North Carolina

Salem, New Hampshire

Manchester, New Hampshire

Mays Landing, New Jersey

Victor, New York

Glen Falls, New York

New Hyde Park, New York

Dayton, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio (at Northgate Mall)

Happy Valley, Oregon

Houston, Texas (at Memorial City Mall)

Bryan, Texas

West Jordan, Utah

Fairfax, Virginia

Vancouver, Washington

Eau Claire, Wisconsin

La Crosse, Wisconsin

[mikeysnot]

1. 150 more on Friday at Home office in Hoffman Estates

on Friday....

lambert is trying to "sell" Kenmore to himself.

https://www.illinoisworknet.com/DownloadPrint/June%202018%20Monthly%20WARN%20Report.pdf

Scroll to bottom of PDF.

[lunasun]

9. Thanks for corp info too

[Aristus]

2. The Sears here in Puyallup, Washington is still hanging on by its fingernails.

The last time I went in there, probably eight or ten years ago, it was practically deserted. I don't know why it's still open.

[h2ebits]

3. Sears and Roebuck catelogs anyone?

If I remember correctly, Sears was the original catalog company. People would wait to receive the newest catalog and pour over the contents to buy dresses, tools, and all kinds of other things--including houses. Yes, houses.

They were the original "online store" but offline, of course. Although late in the game, perhaps they are trying to get back to their roots.

It is very sad to me to see retail stores closing. Clothing and shoes are particularly difficult for me to size and I need to try on everything.

[mikeysnot]

11. I believe that is were it is headed

No more bricks and mortar stores, online only. They are now selling stuff on Amazon as well as their online stores.

I agree, I cannot buy shoes or clothes without trying them on first. And I loathe returning things via mail services.

[KG]

4. let's run gov't like a business!

[TlalocW]

5. It's kind of sad

I remember in the 90s, my local Sears at least would host the employees of companies (the companies had paid of course) to be allowed to shop there after hours - they had small quartets playing Christmas music in different parts of the store, pictures with Santa, snacks, waiters with hors d'oeuvre on trays, and of course, the place was decked out for Christmas, and I think they made a killing. That was my company's Christmas event one year, and I went and mainly goofed around with co-workers I was friends with.

I don't know if they went downhill because of Lampert, but he hasn't done them any favors because he's a bigger disciple of Ayn Rand than Paul Ryan is, and he had the different departments turn on and compete against each other, which has led to where they are today.

What they should do is get Millennials to shop there ironically.

TlalocW

[Power 2 the People]

10. Lampert is a con man.He manipulated assets so he would win whether Sears failed or succeeded

[link:https://www.marketwatch.com/story/yes-sears-is-likely-to-collapse-but-eddie-lampert-will-be-just-fine-2018-05-30|]

[muntrv]

6. They should never have gotten rid of the Sears catalogue. Had they kept it,

Sears would be the leader in online shopping, not Amazon.

[Squinch]

7. Mine is staying!

I actually like Sears. It's handy.

[mikeysnot]

12. Every tool and appliance in my house was

bought at the last Sears store in Chicago, now it is no more.

I am not driving to Woodfield for a new dryer...

[Squinch]

13. I am sorry to hear that. I wish they would get decent management. They missed the

boat when they could have beat Amazon at being Amazon, but there is a path open to them still.

Sears IS handy, because they sell everything. And there is still pleasure to be gotten going to a store and seeing things, trying them, eyeballing them before you buy them.

Sears COULD have made itself the "one stop shop." The place where you can go to do all that seeing and trying for all your needs. A place that's almost as efficient as buying online, but lots more fun.

Instead they're kind of surly and getting seedy.

[Raine]

17. Mine is staying too, for the time being

at least. I like Sears too, this is so sad. My father worked and retired from Sears, they were always good to us.

[pangaia]

8. And the company says....

""We continue to evaluate our network of stores, which is a critical component to our integrated retail transformation, and will make further adjustments as needed," the company said in a statement.

[left-of-center2012]

14. I remember the shock when Montgomery Ward closed down

I had a lot of fun as a kid in the 1950's looking at the Wards, and Sears Christmas toy catalogs.

Probably where my Davy Crockett coon skin cap came from.
I was not allowed to wear it to church.

[inwiththenew]

15. i think it was 1990 when Wal Mart finally caught up with Sears

Now Wal Mart has $500 billion in revenue and Sears has like $13 billion. Talk about a tale of two companies.

[Crash2Parties]

16. Other fallout from the Sears/Kmart slow death: OSH

Sears sold it to Lowe's 3 or 4 years ago after not really having any idea what to do with it since the late 1990's. Yesterday Lowe's announced they were closing all 99 stores. Osh, or Orchard Supply Hardware, was a California, Oregon, Washington and...Florida (because ?) medium size hardware store that emphasized having knowledgeable clerks, quality merchandise & fair pricing.

"Should it be independent? Should it be Sears Hardware (which never really took off)? Should we rebrand Osh & Kmart to be Sears, or should they all be Kmart, the highly leveraged parent company? Or maybe just sell off all the real estate and then let 'em fold?". There was even a time when Sears, Kmart & OSH had a high overlap in some merchandise categories. All three were part of the weird debt games and Ayn Randian policies their CEO was so fond of. For all three brands, much of the past couple decades have had little to do with actually running retail stores well.