Sears to close 78 stores this summer

Associated Press ^ | Apr 21, 2016 7:06 PM EDT | Anne D’Innocenzio

[Olog-hai]

Sears Holdings Corp. will close another 78 stores — 68 Kmart units, and 10 Sears stores — as it looks to restore profitability.

That accounts for about 5 percent of its store base, which is nearly 1,700 stores.

The ailing company, based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, had said in February that it would accelerate the closing of unprofitable stores following a “challenging” holiday season. The move announced Thursday is expected to generate a “meaningful level” of cash from the liquidation of store inventories and from the sale or sublease of some of the related real estate, it said Thursday.

All 10 Sears stores and nearly all the Kmart stores will close in late July. Two Kmart stores will close in mid-September. …

[LouieFisk]

It’s Recovery Summer time again!

[babble-on]

Man, it’s been a long, slow grind into oblivion for that company.

[lodi90]

They closed the K-Mart in my town. Then redid the plaza and put in a Ross & Aldi. The place is rocking now. K-Mart is zombie company. Time to put it to sleep, IMO.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Is there any info on which stores will close?

[reaganaut]

No joke. I went to Sears the other day to get a filter for my shop vac. I found a couple of other items on sale and on clearance that I also needed. I go to check out, have to wait for someone, then the clearance item doesn’t ring up and the clerk asks me how much it was so I tell her. Then the sale item doesn’t ring up right and so I correct her, take her to where it is so she can see the price. She complains to me (a customer!) about how they are always changing the prices and it doesn’t match the ads and the computers are never right. I worked retail when I was young so I blew it off to her as ‘pitfalls of working retail’ but I would NEVER ever badmouth the company to a customer. So ten she needs an over ride it took 3 calls to a supervisor and almost 5 minutes for the supervisor to show up. If it haden’t been such a good price I would have left.

And don’t get me started on Kmarts - I gave up on them years ago.

[PAR35]

Kmart	5980 Chalkville Mountain	Birmingham	AL
Kmart	1101 Beltline Road	Decatur	AL
Kmart	230 Green Springs Hwy	Homewood	AL
Kmart	450 Z Schillingers Road	Mobile	AL
Kmart	300 West Mariposa Road	Nogales	AZ
Kmart	2270 East El Monte Way	Dinuba	CA
Kmart	520 S Cherokee Lane	Lodi	CA
Kmart	1475 Hillman Street	Tulare	CA
Kmart	2785 Highway 46	Wasco	CA
Kmart	44 Providence Pike	Putnam	CT
Kmart	9600 San Jose Blvd	Jacksonville	FL
Kmart	500 Atlantic Blvd	Neptune Beach	FL
Kmart	1809 Byron Butler Parkway	Perry	FL
Kmart	7050 S Pulaski	Chicago	IL
Kmart	2721 N Vermillion Street	Danville	IL
Kmart	1150 W Carl Sandburg Dr	Galesburg	IL
Kmart	17355 Torrence Ave	Lansing	IL
Kmart	2909 Court St	Pekin	IL
Kmart	3840 46th Ave	Rock Island	IL
Kmart	3216 E Third Street	Bloomington	IN
Kmart	3525 Grantline Rd	New Albany	IN
Kmart	1320 E 30th Ave	Hutchinson	KS
Kmart	1809 N Dixie Hwy	Elizabethtown	KY
Kmart	4025 Poplar Level Rd	Louisville	KY
Kmart	3911 Taylorsville Rd	Louisville	KY
Kmart	1581 US 68 South	Maysville	KY
Kmart	344 North Mayo Trail	Paintsville	KY
Kmart	2985 Cottingham Expwy	Pineville	LA
Kmart	10 Main Street	Tewksbury	MA
Kmart	8171 W Houghton Lake Dr	Houghton Lake	MI
Super K*	21111 Van Born Rd	Taylor	MI
Kmart	11978 St Charles Rock Rd	Bridgeton	MO
Kmart	1930 E Kearney Street	Springfield	MO
Kmart	118 Highway 72 West	Corinth	MS
Kmart	2424 Central Ave	Billings	MT
Kmart	804 N Broad Street	Brevard	NC
Kmart	3580 East Franklin	Gastonia	NC
Kmart	2750 Roberts Avenue	Lumberton	NC
Kmart	10500 Centrum Parkway	Pineville	NC
Kmart	720 Sutter Creek Blvd	Rocky Mount	NC
Kmart	3001 West 12th	Hastings	NE
Kmart	838 South Road	Poughkeepsie	NY
Kmart	3049 W Ridge Rd	Rochester	NY
Super K	3315 N Ridge E	Ashtabula	OH
Kmart	1705 North Barron Street	Eaton	OH
Kmart	1825 North State Route 19	Fremont	OH
Kmart	2250 Harding Hwy	Lima	OH
Super K*	5350 Leavitt Road	Lorain	OH
Kmart	625 West Central Avenue	Springboro	OH
Kmart	2660 Constitution Blvd	Beaver Falls	PA
Kmart	8800 Frankford Ave	Philadelphia	PA
Kmart	3000 McIntyre Square Dr	Pittsburgh	PA
Kmart	1775 S Braddock Avenue	Pittsburgh	PA
Kmart	3045 Fifth Street Hwy	Reading	PA
Kmart	99 Matthews Drive	Uniontown	PA
Kmart	2209 West Dekalb	Camden	SC
Kmart	1000 18th St SW	Huron	SD
Kmart	2210 Broadway Avenue	Yankton	SD
Kmart	1802 Decatur Pike	Athens	TN
Kmart	945 McCammon Ave	Maryville	TN
Kmart	902 S Main Street	Sweetwater	TN
Kmart	11330 Montwood Dr	El Paso	TX
Kmart	1405 East Expressway 83	Mission	TX
Kmart	210 SE Georgia Ave	Sweetwater	TX
Kmart	1055 East Draper Pkwy	Draper	UT
Kmart	610 West Price River Dr	Price	UT
Kmart	1442 W 90th South	West Jordan	UT
Kmart	1275 Bell Avenue	Hartford	WI
Sears	700 Quintard Dr	Oxford	AL
Sears	600 S University Ave	Little Rock	AR
Sears	9501 Arlington Expy	Jacksonville	FL
Sears	5953 W Park Ave	Houma	LA
Sears	6810 Eastman Ave	Midland	MI
Sears	200 Medley Centre Parkway	Irondequoit	NY
Sears	60 Smithfield Blvd	Plattsburgh	NY
Sears	1377 Marion Waldo Rd	Marion	OH
Sears	101 Clearview Cir	Butler	PA
Sears	2500 W State St	New Castle	PA

[riri]

I have bought exactly two items at a Sears in my life.

Still though, hate seeing all these businesses going out.

[Olog-hai]

Hmm. The East Stroudsburg (PA) K-Mart isn’t on that list. The Mount Pocono location closed last summer.

[sportutegrl]

Pro shopping tip: Once I saw a price for a dozen eggs at walmart that defied belief (30 cents a doz). I took a pix with my smartphone and when the eggs rung up higher, I showed the clerk and got the displayed price.

[deport]

List of the 154 Walmarts that are closing in the US

102 of which are the smaller Walmart Express types.

[Gay State Conservative]

Sears is Americana to me.I’d much rather see Starbucks fold.

[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

I used to buy all my work hand tools there.

Sure Snap on and stuff was better if you had chromed nuts (like for my cars and bikes, and I would use for that), but for work, they were pretty decent priced, and you could bend a wrench (which we often do using extensions) and sears used to replace them.

Now, they bend so easy, they are just junk, not worth it, and they don’t fit right so they round bolts out.

MAC tools is where I spend my money now if I need too, but I still have hundreds if not thousands of crafstman hand tools laying around in various boxes.

[RegulatorCountry]

That’s a lot of people who were just barely hanging on, losing their jobs. Sears in many ways brought this on themselves, they were struggling even before online shopping started to hit retail hard. But, I hate to see it, still.

[Olog-hai]

You’re not the only one.

[reaganaut]

That is a slightly different list and there may be a few more. Our Kmart isn’t on that list but I have been told its closing and that Hobby Lobby is already set to take over the property (anchor store in a very small mall)

[TexasFreeper2009]

Get rid of the stench of tires from the clothes area for starters!

I cant STAND the smell of a sears store, but LOVE many of their non clothing products.

[Vince Ferrer]

I am saddened by their decline too. More than any other company they invented modern retail. With a catalogue and mail order a person in a small town on the grear plains could buy the same things a person in New York could buy.

[TomGuy]

And this is the lowest unemployment since 1973.

Yeah, right.

[yarddog]

We lived in rural Florida.

I particularly remember Mother ordering clothes etc. before school started. This was around 1951. When the package came we all could not wait to open it and see what everyone got.