Sears Holdings Will Close Additional 68 Kmart Stores, 10 Sears Stores Image courtesy of Nicholas Eckhart
In their recent rounds of store closings, Sears Holdings tried something new: they announced them to the stores’ local news outlets, but didn’t release a nationwide list of stores slated to close. We started compiling our own list based on local news stories and reader tips at the beginning of this year. Late Thursday, Sears Holdings announced an additional 78 store closings, and saved us some work by putting out a national list. Scheduled to close in this round are 65 Kmarts, 3 Super K stores, and ten Sears stores.
Most of the stores listed will begin liquidation soon; Sears stores will start on April 29, and Kmart stores on May 12. A few, which we’ve noted, won’t close until September; those stores may begin their liquidation sales earlier.
Closing stores is a necessary thing when they’re underperforming, but Sears Chairman Eddie Lampert continues to cite the retail company’s planned “transformation” into a company with fewer retail stores across the country, brisk online sales, and a profit that comes from something other than selling its stores to an affiliated real estate investment trust.
“We’re focusing on our best members, our best categories and our best stores as we work to accelerate our transformation,” Lampert said in a statement along with the store closings press release. Closing their worst stores is a good start, as is renting out space that remaining stores don’t need, but Sears and Kmart to struggle with the idea of selling merchandise that customers are interested in, and being helpful when those customers show up in the store. We really are cheering for them to succeed, but are not hopeful.
State | Town | Store Type | Closing |
AL | Birmingham | Kmart | Late July |
AL | Decatur | Kmart | Late July |
AL | Homewood | Kmart | Late July |
AL | Mobile | Kmart | Late July |
AL | Oxford | Sears | Late July |
AR | Little Rock | Sears | Late July |
AZ | Nogales | Kmart | Late July |
CA | Dinuba | Kmart | Late July |
CA | Lodi | Kmart | Late July |
CA | Tulare | Kmart | Late July |
CA | Wasco | Kmart | Late July |
CT | Putnam | Kmart | Late July |
FL | Jacksonville | Kmart | Late July |
FL | Jacksonville | Sears | Late July |
FL | Neptune Beach | Kmart | Late July |
FL | Perry | Kmart | Late July |
IL | Chicago (South Pulaski) | Kmart | Late July |
IL | Danville | Kmart | Late July |
IL | Galesburg | Kmart | Late July |
IL | Lansing | Kmart | Late July |
IL | Pekin | Kmart | Late July |
IL | Rock Island | Kmart | Late July |
IN | Bloomington | Kmart | Late July |
IN | New Albany | Kmart | Late July |
KS | Hutchinson | Kmart | Late July |
KY | Elizabethtown | Kmart | Late July |
KY | Louisville (Poplar Level Road) | Kmart | Late July |
KY | Louisville (Taylorsville Road) | Kmart | Late July |
KY | Maysville | Kmart | Late July |
KY | Paintsville | Kmart | Late July |
LA | Houma | Sears | Late July |
LA | Pineville | Kmart | Late July |
MA | Tewksbury | Kmart | Late July |
MI | Houghton Lake | Kmart | Late July |
MI | Midland | Sears | Late July |
MI | Taylor | Super K | Mid-September |
MO | Bridgeton | Kmart | Late July |
MO | Springfield | Kmart | Late July |
MS | Corinth | Kmart | Late July |
MT | Billings | Kmart | Late July |
NC | Brevard | Kmart | Late July |
NC | Gastonia | Kmart | Late July |
NC | Lumberton | Kmart | Late July |
NC | Pineville | Kmart | Late July |
NC | Rocky Mount | Kmart | Late July |
NE | Hastings | Kmart | Late July |
NY | Irondequoit | Sears | Late July |
NY | Plattsburgh | Sears | Late July |
NY | Poughkeepsie | Kmart | Late July |
NY | Rochester | Kmart | Late July |
OH | Ashtabula | Super K | Late July |
OH | Eaton | Kmart | Late July |
OH | Fremont | Kmart | Late July |
OH | Lima | Kmart | Late July |
OH | Lorain | Super K | Mid-September |
OH | Marion | Sears | Late July |
OH | Springboro | Kmart | Late July |
PA | Beaver Falls | Kmart | Late July |
PA | Butler | Sears | Late July |
PA | New Castle | Sears | Late July |
PA | Philadelphia (Frankford Ave) | Kmart | Late July |
PA | Pittsburgh (McIntyre Square Dr) | Kmart | Late July |
PA | Reading | Kmart | Late July |
PA | Uniontown | Kmart | Late July |
SC | Camden | Kmart | Late July |
SD | Huron | Kmart | Late July |
SD | Yankton | Kmart | Late July |
TN | Athens | Kmart | Late July |
TN | Maryville | Kmart | Late July |
TN | Sweetwater | Kmart | Late July |
TX | El Paso | Kmart | Late July |
TX | Mission | Kmart | Late July |
TX | Sweetwater | Kmart | Late July |
UT | Draper | Kmart | Late July |
UT | Price | Kmart | Late July |
UT | West Jordan | Kmart | Late July |
WI | Hartford | Kmart | Late July |
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