[SunTzuWu]

I’d really hate to see Sears vanish from the landscape.

Sears stores aren't closing. Sears ownes K-Mart, those are the stores that are closing.

[nuconvert]

“Sears stores aren’t closing. Sears ownes K-Mart, those are the stores that are closing.”

According to the article, both will be closing. >

“Sears Holdings Corp will close up to 120 stores in its Kmart and namesake chains”

[LexRex in TN]

Actually, Kmart Holdings Corporation bought Sears in 1994.

[CGalen]

“Sears stores aren’t closing. Sears ownes K-Mart, those are the stores that are closing. “

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Actually, K-Mart owns Sears. It was Kmart who bought out Sears.

[La Enchiladita]

K-Mart AND NAMESAKE stores.
I assume that “namesake” means stores that bear the SEARS logo.

I went to SEARS in Santa Monica a couple of weeks before Christmas to find something I couldn’t find anywhere else, and put my dibs on some great clothing items, intending to go back this week. I wondered afterward how long they will stay around.

Sad to see them finally close down. When my mother was a little country girl back in the day, they ordered a lot from the infamous SEARS catalog.