Thread regarding Sears layoffs

If you go to the hometown website and try clicking on a particular store it not take you to that particular stores page except the appliance/mattress and home/life stores. Also if you go to Sears.com and try and search the hometowns have been removed from there as well.

Changes since 12/5/22:

AZ: -1 (Bullhead City)
CO: -1 (Sterling)
WY: -1 (Laramie)

which brings the official count down to 127 (and the real count somewhat lower)

The five remaining company-owned small-format stores, which are not Sears Hometown stores, are

Fort Collins, CO (Appliance & Mattress)
Overland Park, KS (Home & Life)
Lafayette, LA (Home & Life)
Camp Hill, PA (Appliance & Mattress)
Pharr, TX (Appliance)

To the poster below, what 5 small format (company owned) stores are there? I thought they recently closed 2 such stores in AK & HI? So there are still 5 left after those closings?

There are 15 "regular Sears" stores left, two of which are wrapping up their liquidation by the middle of this month. There are also five small-format Sears stores (company-owned, not Hometown).

Why are there over 100 of these d-mb stores left? I thought they were on their way out, and most (if not all) were closing? 129 is too many. We are down to about 20-30 regular Sears, and only 8 Kmarts, so 100+ Hometowns are too much. Trim that down to under 10, Eddie! Sears is obsolete. There should never be more stores of ANY of their formats, than I can count on 2 hands. Keep it under 10 of each, please, Ed. This is the equivalent of having 100+ Blockbuster videos, which would make no sense in 2022. I Know there is one location open in Oregon, but that is just a novelty for nostalgia, not because anybody REALLY has an urgent need to go rent a DVD or VHS tape, or whatever. You can do that at any Redbox for around $1.

TL/DR: Trim these down, Ed.. Keep it to 10 or less, please. We're in 2022, not 1992.

https://www.facebook.com/SearsHTSSterlingCO/posts/pfbid02UrVkKDzAEjtkZwpxfSxyDaw7VHsM8yMfhdV4HMK8BW1oUPqH5BswxVcooiv2AihKl says their last day will be Friday, December 9, so it will be a few more days before it comes off the official store list.

That will take us down to 129 on the official list. And other people have posted that at least 9 or 10 of the official list's stores are actually closed already.

Changes since 12/4/22.

AR: -1
CA: -1
MS: -2
OR: -1

Sterling, CO has also been listed as closing but hasn’t been removed yet.

Whoops, forgot one more state

NC: -1

Changes since September 30 (all this past weekend, really):

IL: -1
MN: -1
MS: -1

Changes since September 17:

GA: -1
NE: -1
OK: -1
SC: -1
TX: -1
WA: -1

It's 130 stores now

https://www.sb360.com/select-projects/events/sears-list/

We may be down to as few as 136, if this other post is correct. (It omits nine stores from the 145 still listed on the Sears Hometown site, saying they are already closed.)

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1iOa1eoH

that's just sad, 30 stores have closed since this post first went up in July. The slow drip continues.

Changes since September 2:

FL: -1
NC: -1
SC: -1

which brings us down to 145 stores

Changes since August 23:

IA: -1
PR: -3
WA: -1
WI: -1

which takes us down to 148 stores

Changes since yesterday:

CO: -1
MN: -1
OH: -1

which brings the store count down to 154

Changes since July 15:

CO: -1
DE: -1
IL: -1
MI: -1
MO: -1
TX: -3
WA: -3
WV: -1
WI: -1
Total change: -13

which takes us down to 157 stores

I thought Eddie was making Hometowns into the future growth for the company. What happened?

Changes since July 2:

CA: -1
HI: -1
PR: -2
WI: -1

which takes us down to 170 stores

This is not official in any way. The home/life or appliance/mattress (why two names for the same damn thing?) stores are corporate stores, not hometown.

Why does the list of 170 stores keep getting deleted?

You're including some of the Home & Life and Appliance & Mattress stores, which I excluded. Still, our numbers are pretty close to each other.

Here's the "actual" breakdown of how many Sears Hometown stores are left in each state:

AL - 6
AK - 0
AZ - 1
AR - 13
CA - 7
CO - 7 (Salida store is currently for sale)
DE - 2
FL - 5
GA - 6
HI - 2
ID - 2
IL - 6
IN - 2
IA - 4
KS - 6
KY - 5
LA - 3
ME - 2
MD - 1
MI - 2
MN - 3
MS - 8
MO - 4
MT - 0
NE - 5
NV - 0
NM - 3
NY - 3
NC - 5
OH - 2
OK - 3
OR - 5
PA - 3
PR - 6 (will be 5 once the Bayamon store closes down for good)
RI - 1
SC - 2
SD - 1
TN - 1
TX - 15
VT - 2
WA - 5
WV - 1
WI - 8
WY - 2
Total - 170

Huh, someone posted a list of every store that is open (170 of them), and I replied to that, and it's now gone.

That's 170 stores (including the one that's closing and the one that's for sale)

Current stores open, checked on Google listing and store Facebook page.

Andalusia, AL
Selma, AL
Oneonta, AL
Jackson, AL
Enterprise, AL
Foley, AL
Bullhead City, AZ
Berryville, AR
Monticello, AR
Camden, AR
Clarksville, AR
Harrison, AR
Russellville, AR
Crossett, AR
Ash Flat, AR
Arkadelphia, AR
Wynne, AR
Malvern, AR
Cabot, AR
West Helena, AR
Clearlake, CA
Auburn, CA
Ukiah, CA
Tehachapi, CA
Napa, CA
Taft, CA
Coachella, CA
Fort Collins, CO
Montrose, CO
Sterling, CO
Durango, CO
Salida, CO - store currently for sale
Alamosa, CO
Trinidad, CO
Seaford, DE
Middletown, DE
Ft. Pierce, FL
Summerfield, FL
Saint Augustine, FL
Dunnellon, FL
Starke, FL
Statesboro, GA
Dublin, GA
Sandersville, GA
Blairsville, GA
Moultrie, GA
Macon, GA
Honolulu, HI
Kailua Kona, HI
Burley, ID
Mountain Home, ID
Effingham, IL
Dekalb, IL
Flora, IL
Jacksonville, IL
Harrisburg, IL
Olney, IL
Connersville, IN
Angola, IN
Fairfield, IA
Fort Dodge, IA
Burlington, IA
Mason City, IA
Independence, KS
Ottawa, KS
Hays, KS
CHAPMAN, KS
Atchison, KS
Overland Park, KS
Danville, KY
Somerset, KY
Pikeville, KY
Middlesboro, KY
South Williamson, KY
Bogalusa, LA
Deridder, LA
Lafayette, LA
Caribou, ME
Farmington, ME
Chestertown, MD
Fenton, MI
Caro, MI
Hutchinson, MN
Little Falls, MN
Fergus Falls, MN
Oxford, MS
Vicksburg, MS
Brookhaven, MS
Natchez, MS
Greenwood, MS
Magee, MS
Byram, MS
Olive Branch, MS
Nevada, MO
Ava, MO
Clinton, MO
Maryville, MO
Columbus, NE
Kearney, NE
Norfolk, NE
Fremont, NE
Chadron, NE
Carlsbad, NM
Silver City, NM
Ruidoso Downs, NM
Warsaw, NY
Cobleskill, NY
Oneonta, NY
Aberdeen, NC
Sanford, NC
Dunn, NC
Murphy, NC
Spruce Pine, NC
Norwalk, OH
Bowling Green, OH
Muskogee, OK
Altus, OK
Elk City, OK
Florence, OR
Harbor, OR
McMinnville, OR
Ontario, OR
North Bend, OR
Pleasantville, PA
Kittanning, PA
Camp Hill, PA
Barranquitas, PR
Aguadilla, PR
Bayamon, PR - closing down sale
Manati, PR
Toa Baja, PR
San Sebastian, PR
North Kingstown, RI
Greenwood, SC
Walterboro, SC
Spearfish, SD
Crossville, TN
Sealy, TX
Pharr, TX
El Campo, TX
Liberty, TX
Corsicana, TX
Nacogdoches, TX
Bay City, TX
Uvalde, TX
Canton, TX
Plainview, TX
Pleasanton, TX
Fulton, TX
Humble, TX
Houston, TX
Sugar Land, TX
Barre, VT
Morrisville, VT
Colville, WA
Port Angeles, WA
Ellensburg, WA
Oak Harbor, WA
Sequim, WA
Elkins, WV
Menomonie, WI
Sparta, WI
Rice Lake, WI
Ashland, WI
Cudahy, WI
Chippewa Falls, WI
Reedsburg, WI
Superior, WI
Laramie, WY
Sheridan, WY

Hopfully sometime soon we get moer Sear's Hometown stores soon. I love these stores. I think they are good.

Why does anybody care at this point?

The list is unreliable and out of date. We’ve known that for some time.

Official??? LOL

List needs an update several stores listed as open have since closed.

Don't worry about it.....it should be zero by the end of summer

Yeah but that list is wrong. About 95-100 stores are still open.

The entire list is at https://www.searshometownstores.com/store-list . That is where I got my data from.

We need a list of them all by name so we can check if they are open or not as that sounds like far too many.