https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/business/sears-at-valley-mall-in-union-gap-to-close-by-november/article_77aed040-3aa9-11ed-a5b9-0b18ccc2a1e9.html
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Sears at Valley Mall in Union Gap to close by November
JOEL DONOFRIO Yakima Herald-Republic Sep 22, 2022
After sitting mostly empty with little merchandise for more than a year, the Sears store at the Valley Mall will close later this fall.
Officials with California-based Eldon W. Gottschalk and Associates, which is handling the store’s liquidation sales, told the Yakima Herald-Republic the store is expected to close by Nov. 20.
Gottschalk is an advertising agency, not a liquidator. Most likely the newspaper learned of the liquidation when Gottschalk requested to buy ads for it.
This brings us down to 14 full-sized Sears stores, 13 in the mainland US and one in Puerto Rico.