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Woes for Stores that Once Had Huge Area Presence, Sears and Kmart, Closing More Stores Nationally

By Connect-Bridgeport Staff on August 14, 2019 via Connect-Bridgeport.com

In this report from WDTV's Web site, it announces an additional 26 large-format Sears and Kmart stores will close in late October, their parent company announced Tuesday, while their smaller store formats which include Sears Home & Life, Sears Hometown and Sears Outlet are set to expand.
 
The closures include five Kmart stores and 19 Sears locations. The company says they have faced a number of challenges in returning stores to “sustainable levels of productivity.” Sears Auto Centers at those locations will close in late August and liquidation sales are set to begin around Aug. 15.
 
TransformCo says all eligible associates at those stores will be offered the same number of weeks of severance as Sears Holdings Corporation were offered prior to that company’s bankruptcy filing in October 2018. TransformCo is the company that emerged from that bankruptcy.
 
Click HERE to read the report. And one of the locations is in West Virginia.
 
Editor's Note: Photo shows the Clarksburg Kmart prior to its closing in April of 2018.



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