Sears Holdings Will Close Additional 68 Kmart Stores 10 Sears Stores

In their recent rounds of store closings, Sears Holdings tried something new: they announced them to the stores’ local news outlets, but didn’t release a nationwide list of stores slated to close. We started compiling our own list based on local news stories and reader tips at the beginning of this year. Late Thursday, Sears Holdings announced an additional 78 store closings, and saved us some work by putting out a national list. Scheduled to close in this round are 65 Kmarts, 3 Super K stores, and ten Sears stores.

Most of the stores listed will begin liquidation soon; Sears stores will start on April 29, and Kmart stores on May 12. A few, which we’ve noted, won’t close until September; those stores may begin their liquidation sales earlier.

Closing stores is a necessary thing when they’re underperforming, but Sears Chairman Eddie Lampert continues to cite the retail company’s planned “transformation” into a company with fewer retail stores across the country, brisk online sales, and a profit that comes from something other than selling its stores to an affiliated real estate investment trust.

“We’re focusing on our best members, our best categories and our best stores as we work to accelerate our transformation,” Lampert said in a statement along with the store closings press release. Closing their worst stores is a good start, as is renting out space that remaining stores don’t need, but Sears and Kmart to struggle with the idea of selling merchandise that customers are interested in, and being helpful when those customers show up in the store. We really are cheering for them to succeed, but are not hopeful.

State	Town	Store Type	Closing
AL	Birmingham	Kmart	Late July
AL	Decatur	Kmart	Late July
AL	Homewood	Kmart	Late July
AL	Mobile	Kmart	Late July
AL	Oxford	Sears	Late July
AR	Little Rock	Sears	Late July
AZ	Nogales	Kmart	Late July
CA	Dinuba	Kmart	Late July
CA	Lodi	Kmart	Late July
CA	Tulare	Kmart	Late July
CA	Wasco	Kmart	Late July
CT	Putnam	Kmart	Late July
FL	Jacksonville	Kmart	Late July
FL	Jacksonville	Sears	Late July
FL	Neptune Beach	Kmart	Late July
FL	Perry	Kmart	Late July
IL	Chicago (South Pulaski)	Kmart	Late July
IL	Danville	Kmart	Late July
IL	Galesburg	Kmart	Late July
IL	Lansing	Kmart	Late July
IL	Pekin	Kmart	Late July
IL	Rock Island	Kmart	Late July
IN	Bloomington	Kmart	Late July
IN	New Albany	Kmart	Late July
KS	Hutchinson	Kmart	Late July
KY	Elizabethtown	Kmart	Late July
KY	Louisville (Poplar Level Road)	Kmart	Late July
KY	Louisville (Taylorsville Road)	Kmart	Late July
KY	Maysville	Kmart	Late July
KY	Paintsville	Kmart	Late July
LA	Houma	Sears	Late July
LA	Pineville	Kmart	Late July
MA	Tewksbury	Kmart	Late July
MI	Houghton Lake	Kmart	Late July
MI	Midland	Sears	Late July
MI	Taylor	Super K	Mid-September
MO	Bridgeton	Kmart	Late July
MO	Springfield	Kmart	Late July
MS	Corinth	Kmart	Late July
MT	Billings	Kmart	Late July
NC	Brevard	Kmart	Late July
NC	Gastonia	Kmart	Late July
NC	Lumberton	Kmart	Late July
NC	Pineville	Kmart	Late July
NC	Rocky Mount	Kmart	Late July
NE	Hastings	Kmart	Late July
NY	Irondequoit	Sears	Late July
NY	Plattsburgh	Sears	Late July
NY	Poughkeepsie	Kmart	Late July
NY	Rochester	Kmart	Late July
OH	Ashtabula	Super K	Late July
OH	Eaton	Kmart	Late July
OH	Fremont	Kmart	Late July
OH	Lima	Kmart	Late July
OH	Lorain	Super K	Mid-September
OH	Marion	Sears	Late July
OH	Springboro	Kmart	Late July
PA	Beaver Falls	Kmart	Late July
PA	Butler	Sears	Late July
PA	New Castle	Sears	Late July
PA	Philadelphia (Frankford Ave)	Kmart	Late July
PA	Pittsburgh (McIntyre Square Dr)	Kmart	Late July
PA	Reading	Kmart	Late July
PA	Uniontown	Kmart	Late July
SC	Camden	Kmart	Late July
SD	Huron	Kmart	Late July
SD	Yankton	Kmart	Late July
TN	Athens	Kmart	Late July
TN	Maryville	Kmart	Late July
TN	Sweetwater	Kmart	Late July
TX	El Paso	Kmart	Late July
TX	Mission	Kmart	Late July
TX	Sweetwater	Kmart	Late July
UT	Draper	Kmart	Late July
UT	Price	Kmart	Late July
UT	West Jordan	Kmart	Late July
WI	Hartford	Kmart	Late July

 

by Laura Northrup via Consumerist