Sears’ slow death, which started in the 1990s with the rise of discount retailers like Walmart and online shopping platforms ...

Talk of Sears’ demise may be premature: just two months ago, a previously shuttered Sears in Burbank, California, quietly turned the lights back on. Two weeks after that, another reopened in ...

Talk of Sears’ demise may be premature: just two months ago, a previously shuttered Sears in Burbank, California, quietly turned the lights back on. Two weeks after that, another reopened in ...

Los Angeles — To the casual shopper, Sears, one of America’s oldest retailers, may appear to be on life support.The department store chain that once reinvented how Americans shopped now barely ...

After declaring bankruptcy and being acquired by Transformco in 2019, the number of Sears stores in America would deplete throughout the years, with the latest closures happening at the end of 2024.

The store was clean and organized ­– but shoppers were sparse. The newly reopened Burbank location, which initially closed one year ago, likely didn’t look so different from a typical Sears ...

Sears' stores helped reshape America, drawing shoppers away from the traditional Main Street merchants. Fotosearch/Getty Images. Sales clerks go on strike in Chicago circa 1946.

Sears Holdings has emerged from bankruptcy after more than 10,000 court filings and a four-year stay that saw the department store chain shrink from almost 700 stores to less than two dozen.

Of all the empty buildings in Minnesota — the downtown office towers, suburban campuses, small-town main streets, abandoned schools and churches, and giant warehouses built on speculation — the empty ...

Sears and Kmart once dominated the retail landscape. When the companies merged in 2005, they had nearly 3,500 stores.For context, that’s more stores than Target, Macy’s and Lowe’s currently ...

Sears has one other Florida store, in Orlando, and there are just eight remaining stores across the country. Sears’ holding company Transformco didn’t respond to requests for comments or ...

Sears is one step closer to disappearing in South Florida. The last of the department stores in Miami-Dade and Broward could be demolished as part of redevelopment plans approved by the city of ...