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Sears-Kmart Death Watch

Started by Brandon, January 12, 2018, 03:55:18 PM

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How much longer do you think Sears and Kmart Have?

6 Months
20 (19%)
9 Months
11 (10.5%)
One Year
28 (26.7%)
Two Years
23 (21.9%)
Five Years
13 (12.4%)
Ten Years
1 (1%)
They'll be around forever!
9 (8.6%)

Total Members Voted: 105

Avalanchez71

So Sears is still sending me emails.  I clicked on one to see what they are selling and it is a sad state.  It is a marketplace with a PS5 in stock teaser.  The ad depicts the PS5 in stock but upon clicking you get $1000 bundle options sold by a third party.


gonealookin

Kmart is deceased in California as of this past Sunday, as the final store in Grass Valley closed.  Target will be taking over that building with an opening later on in 2022.

It looks like the lone Kmart survivor west of the Mississippi is in Hamilton, Montana.  Plus there's one out on Guam.

D-Dey65

Quote from: DenverBrian on December 08, 2021, 01:58:05 PM
https://howmanykmartstores.com/

https://howmanysearsstores.com/

17 Kmarts and 23 Sears still open as of November 11.
Ahh, so the nearest one to me is Orlando now. The last I heard it was Brandon.

I thought the last Sears in Brooklyn closed already. Now the only stores anyone in the New York Tri-State area has left are Jersey City and Newburgh.

As for K Mart, only two will be left soon in Bridgehampton and the Bronx (in New York), and the only two left in Florida are way down in SOUTH Florida.

I've been to the one in Bridgehampton, but not any of the ones in the Bronx or White Plains.





Great Lakes Roads

https://www.kpax.com/news/ravalli-county/hamilton-kmart-to-close-in-early-march

Hamilton, MT Kmart store will be closing for good on March 6. That will leave 5 stores in the continental US (2 in FL, 2 in NJ, and 1 in NY).

jeffandnicole


Pete from Boston

Quote from: jeffandnicole on February 20, 2022, 11:56:31 PM
https://www.inquirer.com/business/retail/kmart-closing-last-stores-new-jersey-americana-20220220.html

QuoteOnly four Kmarts are left in the U.S. and two are in New Jersey.

That's incredible, one of the last Kmarts is the one I could walk to as a kid.

Great Lakes Roads

The Kmart store in Avenel, NJ is now on the closing list. 3 Kmart stores left in the mainland United States!

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

roadman65

Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on March 09, 2022, 12:56:26 PM
The Kmart store in Avenel, NJ is now on the closing list. 3 Kmart stores left in the mainland United States!

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

Good grief.
Every day is a winding road, you just got to get used to it.

Sheryl Crowe

jdb1234

Quote from: roadman65 on March 09, 2022, 12:57:10 PM
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on March 09, 2022, 12:56:26 PM
The Kmart store in Avenel, NJ is now on the closing list. 3 Kmart stores left in the mainland United States!

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

Good grief.

I saw an article where the Kmart in Key West is on the chopping block.  I joked that Key West is closer to Cuba than it is to the closest Walmart.

Max Rockatansky

Quote from: jdb1234 on March 09, 2022, 06:11:28 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on March 09, 2022, 12:57:10 PM
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on March 09, 2022, 12:56:26 PM
The Kmart store in Avenel, NJ is now on the closing list. 3 Kmart stores left in the mainland United States!

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

Good grief.

I saw an article where the Kmart in Key West is on the chopping block.  I joked that Key West is closer to Cuba than it is to the closest Walmart.

That Kmart and the Sears across the street on Kennedy were the only big box retail in town.  Unless you in the Navy that doesn't really leave you much choice but to head to the mainland in a pinch for a big general retailer.

Pete from Boston

Are those four the only ones left open, or just (at press time, before Avenel was announced to get the axe) the ones not announced to be closing? There are more than that listed on the Kmart website, but some have been noted here as closed.

I do fully appreciate that the Kmart website is probably run with the same level of attention as the stores themselves.

Flint1979

I can confirm that the one in Marshall, Michigan is closed. I have driven past it in it's post Kmart life already.

Life in Paradise

I may have said it before, but at this point, what is the reason to have any of them open?  When you have less than 5 stores open (K-Mart), you really cease to be a chain, and one would think that there is no cost savings involved with purchasing, warehousing, or distribution.  I know that there is a chain of Sears Hometown stores that Lambert owns separately, and I guess that they could use some of those facilities.  Just have a wake for the stores and bury them into retailing history.  They can take a chapter after the ones highlighting A & P grocery and Howard Johnson's Restaurants.

DenverBrian

Quote from: Life in Paradise on March 11, 2022, 01:29:48 PM
I may have said it before, but at this point, what is the reason to have any of them open?  When you have less than 5 stores open (K-Mart), you really cease to be a chain, and one would think that there is no cost savings involved with purchasing, warehousing, or distribution.  I know that there is a chain of Sears Hometown stores that Lambert owns separately, and I guess that they could use some of those facilities.  Just have a wake for the stores and bury them into retailing history.  They can take a chapter after the ones highlighting A & P grocery and Howard Johnson's Restaurants.
There could be legal reasons to maintain a handful of stores while certain asset disposal issues, sale of company name, trademarks, etc. are finalized.

thenetwork

At this point, the remaining Sears/Kmarts deserve to be restricted to the island of Guam. 

ftballfan

Quote from: jdb1234 on March 09, 2022, 06:11:28 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on March 09, 2022, 12:57:10 PM
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on March 09, 2022, 12:56:26 PM
The Kmart store in Avenel, NJ is now on the closing list. 3 Kmart stores left in the mainland United States!

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

Good grief.

I saw an article where the Kmart in Key West is on the chopping block.  I joked that Key West is closer to Cuba than it is to the closest Walmart.
I'm surprised Kmart didn't sell its Key West store as a going concern to Walmart or Target or Publix

Max Rockatansky

Quote from: ftballfan on March 11, 2022, 09:02:24 PM
Quote from: jdb1234 on March 09, 2022, 06:11:28 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on March 09, 2022, 12:57:10 PM
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on March 09, 2022, 12:56:26 PM
The Kmart store in Avenel, NJ is now on the closing list. 3 Kmart stores left in the mainland United States!

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

Good grief.

I saw an article where the Kmart in Key West is on the chopping block.  I joked that Key West is closer to Cuba than it is to the closest Walmart.
I'm surprised Kmart didn't sell its Key West store as a going concern to Walmart or Target or Publix

Rumor has been for years that Target wanted to build a store on Rockland Key. 

SectorZ

Quote from: thenetwork on March 11, 2022, 06:24:43 PM
At this point, the remaining Sears/Kmarts deserve to be restricted to the island of Guam.

What did Guam do to deserve that sad fate? Bad enough all the people there may make the island capsize.

Flint1979

Some of it probably has to do with the leases of the store if Kmart doesn't own their own stores which I don't think they did, I say did because I will never step foot into another Kmart. Anyway I think with the leases running out is when they have been shutting stores down. I really don't think any Kmart is profitable anymore. It was strange only having one store left in Michigan before it closed and even stranger not having any Kmart's left in the state. Our last Sears store has also closed.

RobbieL2415

Quote from: thenetwork on March 11, 2022, 06:24:43 PM
At this point, the remaining Sears/Kmarts deserve to be restricted to the island of Guam.
Yakko's World but it's all the countries that still have Sears/Kmart.

RobbieL2415


D-Dey65

Quote from: RobbieL2415 on April 11, 2022, 11:50:37 AM
Down to three stores:
https://www.fox61.com/article/news/nation-world/kmart-3-stores-left/507-5526c7c0-5367-4a45-8aa5-a4ec64705b01
And one of them is the one in Bridgehampton, NY.


I wonder if the distribution center in Ocala is still serving the store in Miami.


Takumi

Quote from: D-Dey65 on April 30, 2022, 07:03:36 PM
I wonder if the distribution center in Ocala is still serving the store in Miami.

What else would it serve? (I'm genuinely asking.)
Quote from: Rothman on July 15, 2021, 07:52:59 AM
Olive Garden must be stopped.  I must stop them.

Don't @ me. Seriously.

thenetwork

I was working in the field this past week, and came across one of the most creative and unusual use for a former Kmart...

How about a new courthouse?

https://www.craigdailypress.com/news/trio-of-community-members-speak-in-favor-of-potential-new-courthouse-at-old-kmart-building/

Even though this article is old stating the Moffatt County Courthouse may or may not consider the old Kmart building, they officially have signs up touting the new courthouse and they are rehabbing the building as we speak.

D-Dey65

Quote from: Takumi on April 30, 2022, 07:50:45 PM
Quote from: D-Dey65 on April 30, 2022, 07:03:36 PM
I wonder if the distribution center in Ocala is still serving the store in Miami.

What else would it serve? (I'm genuinely asking.)
I'm not sure that warehouse is even affiliated with KMart anymore.



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