These seven Sears stores are expected to close for the final time on Sunday, January 24th, 2021 which is tomorrow make sure between today and tomorrow to plan your final visit to these locations to score a last minute deal or say goodbye to some of these iconic locations. The following stores are;
Concord, NC
Grandville, MI
Glen Burnie, MD
Myrtle Beach, SC
Pasadena, TX
White Planes, NY
Manchester, CT
These Sears & Kmart Stores will close by February 2021
Big Bear, CA
Carolina, PR
Mayaguez, PR
Cagus, PR
Bayamon, PR
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32 remaining Kmarts
Both https://www.sb360.com/select-projects/events/sears/ and the Sears.com store locator have now removed the first seven stores.
I meant 81 full-sized Sears and Kmart stores (89 - 8 = 81), but I can't edit after posting.
On the Sears.com store locator pages, the Hometown stores are listed as a separate category from "Sears Store"s. I am counting only the "Sears Store"s.
@3vzx+193tT9Zu Why shouldn't they be counted? The sign shows Sears right? Isn't diet Pepsi part of "Pepsi"? Isn't "Bud-Light", part of "Budweiser"? Sears Hometowns, are a variety of Sears. Think of them a Sears-Light.
Again, as far as being franchised, that makes no difference in counts. Go to your local Mcdonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut or Dominos, or whatever, they will be individually franchised, but they still (of course) are included in overall store counts.
Those "Eight of the Sears stores are small format" are considered Hometowns these days.
Seas Hometown should NOT be counted with the regular Sears department stores. They are a separate entity anyway!
Count below is wrong. There are 100's of "small format" Sears Hometown stores. They are, by definition, a type of "small format" Sears. And them being franchised makes no difference, in terms of counts. When you go to your local Wendys or Mcdonalds for a burger, those places are franchised too. Yet we still count them, so Sears Hometowns should count as small format Sears, too.
There are 58 non-closing Sears and 31 non-closing Kmarts, totalling 89 stores.
Eight of the Sears stores are small format, so there are 80 full-sized stores of either brand.
I thought it was less than 89 FL stores?
Thank you for your informative post. I always appreciate these updates.
btw it's White Plains, NY, not Planes. (A Kmart in the same town remains open.)
This might help answer the mystery of how Eddie and Transformco keep going with no cash. He keeps selling stores to liquidators to raise some more cash and stay out of Chapter 7.
After the twelve stores close, there will be 58 Sears and 31 Kmarts left.
These analogy examples themselves are redundant.
@1mdq+193tT9Zu I Know, right? Excellent example BTW. These stores are now owned by the liquidator (I think the are called sb360?) and have nothing to do with Eddie or Sears. So if they close now, Next Week, Next Month, that's semantics. Again, to continue your example, it's like discussing the proverbial playoff football team down 200-0, and thinking about what the final score will be. Will it be 200-0, 200-3, 200-6? Who cares? Either way they are losing and about to be eliminated from the playoffs!
So, let's instead discuss the remaining teams THAT ARE still alive, and in the playoffs and which one of THOSE will be eliminated. That is more important than the final score of a team that is losing anyway.
All 12 currently closing stores are owned by sb360 and have nothing legally to do with Sears other than they were purchased from them and ostensibly still will hang their signs outside for Few Days more.
*sold, not old.
*re-plugged
And? Tell us something we don't already Know. These stores are already about to be blasted out and there is already another thread about this. Post some NEW closings, this is old news. It's like discussing when exactly an unplugged laptop will stop working. What's the difference? It is unplugged and unless it gets re=lugged in, it's fate is sealed and not worth discussing.
These stores are history. 2020's news. Move on to what we can blast out in 2021. 2-3 Months from now, these locations will be like stomach contents for a condemned prisoner who got his last meal before execution. In other words, who cares? Once a store is announced as closing, it is old to a liquidator and I remove it from any Sears list, as it has nothing to do with Sears from that point forward. What matters is which stores can we eliminate next?
This is meaningless housekeeping stuff, like calculating how many yards a football team down 200-0 in the 4th Quarter will finish with. Who cares? They're eliminated from the playoffs anyway.
What last minute deals? The stores are empty. Anything of any value has long since been sold.
After the twelve stores close . How many stores will be left.