Wrong. There are also 100's of Sears Hometowns across many states and PR. They DO exist. In fact more have even opened up recently! Don't count them if you don't want to. But the fact remains, they DO exist. So there are 100's of Sears Hometowns across a whole lot of states and at least 1 territory. Even if they are franchised, they are still a type of Sears.
While the website might not be 100% accurate, here is a rough list of the amounts in each area (for some reason the 6 in PR aren't on the site, but they have FB pages):
Here is the link to Sears Hometown, small-format stores. I am listing the counts by state, as per this link:
https://www.searshometownstores.com/store-list
AL 6
AZ 7
AR 22 (WOW!)
CA 25 (Wow, but it is the biggest population state.)
CO 11
DE 2
FL 9
GA 14 (much smaller state than FL, above, yet 5 more stores. Go figure.)
ID 3
IL 15 (Birthplace of Sears will still have some small Sears.)
IN 7
IA 9
KS 11
KY 5
LA 5
ME 2
MD 1
MA 1
MI 9
MN 7
MS 11
MO 10
MT 5 (also, oddly, this state is home to the most weirdly and randomly located Kmart possible, LOL)
NE 5
NV 5 (gotta take a break from Gambling occasionally.)
NJ 1
NM 5
NY 4 (incidentally, all are far upstate)
NC 9
OH 6
OK 8
OR 7
PA 5 (including 1 in Philly! This seems to Buck the trend of these mostly being in more rural areas.)
SC 6
SD 1
TN 2
TX 27 (well everything is bigger in TX, and all that)
UT 1
VT 3 (impressive for 1 of the tiniest states)
VA 1
WA 13 (including Tukwila, oddly, which has a regular Sears. Someone explain that to me).
WV 2
WI 15
WY 3 (smallest state in the union, decently represented)
Now, I could of course have miscounted or miscalculated, but the site is there for anyone to look at. 1 Day, I might have to make a map of all the locations. But my (admittedly poor) math, it appears we have 326 total. This link seems to be accurate, because it reflects the new store opening in Spearfish SD, while it has removed the recently closed one in Williston ND. So there appear to be (as far as small format Sears), 334 total. That would be 326 Hometowns, plus 8 other small format Sears, that OP referred to above. You're welcome.