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Store Closures: Since filing for bankruptcy, Sears has closed hundreds of stores, leaving only a small fraction of its former footprint. Attempts at Revival: Efforts to revive the brand have included selling off assets, reducing store sizes, and attempting to focus on smaller, more profitable locations. Current Status
Mar 4, 2024 · Sears is not entirely dead yet. As of January 2024, the company still had a dozen stores in the United States. Here's where to find them.
After many changes in the retail industry, the company merged with Federated Department Stores (now Macy's, Inc.) in 2005. This company was only a holding company that bought, sold, and merged regional department stores, such as Foley's and L.S. Ayres.
Feb 27, 2024 · Total sales by US department stores are expected to fall from $103 billion in 2018 to only $81 billion by 2026, according to projections from Coresight Research, an analytics firm that tracks the...
Feb 1, 2024 · Marshall Field created the namesake store that was one of Chicago’s jewels. Field’s became Macy’s, and its value now is as the kind of real estate play that led to the extinction of stores like Sears and Kmart. So Macy’s has closed the candy department in its State Street flagship. You could see it coming.
- Lynn Becker
Jan 11, 2022 · Sears began as a catalog, and opened its first downtown department store on State Street in 1932. Its last department store in Illinois – at Woodfield Mall – closed last year.
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Apr 11, 2022 · Once it shutters, the number of Kmarts in the U.S. — once well over 2,000 — will be down to three in the continental U.S. and a handful of stores elsewhere, according to multiple reports, in a ...