Four Sears Hometown stores in Michigan to close

4 Sears Hometown shops have introduced everlasting shutdowns in Michigan this month with closeout gross sales, leaving the storied retail title all however absent from the state.

Shops in Escanaba, Houghton, Ionia and Sault Ste. Marie posted on their Fb websites in regards to the closings, which come lower than a 12 months after Michigan’s final Sears division retailer, in Westland, closed in June 2021.

Sears Hometown shops are smaller, domestically operated retailers that promote home equipment, instruments, and legislation and backyard gear. Shops in Caro and Fenton stay open.

As much as 70% off merchandise ended on the Houghton retailer earlier this month whereas Escanaba and Ionia gross sales began on Could 13. The Ionia retailer indicated it was “closing our doorways for good,” in response to posts on-line. The liquidation sale on the Sault Ste. Marie location began Could 27, in response to a publish on the shop’s Fb web page.

Sears’ mother or father firm Transformco didn’t announce the closings, that are amongst dozens at shops throughout the nation, and representatives didn’t reply to a request for remark.

Transformco, which additionally owns Kmart, earlier this 12 months introduced retailer closures in Florida. Kmart is down to 3 shops in New Jersey. The final Kmart in Michigan, in Marshall, closed in November.

The corporate closed Sears’ Chicago company headquarters earlier this 12 months. The troubled retailer, as soon as among the many largest on the earth, sought Chapter 11 chapter safety in 2018 with billions of {dollars} in debt.

Transformco, an entity managed by former Sears CEO and its largest shareholder, Edward Lampert, bought the retailer and 425 shops in a 2019 chapter public sale.

Since then, Sears has continued to cut back its retail footprint, shuttering a whole lot of shops, and closed its final full-service Illinois division retailer at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg on Nov. 14. 

In line with Forbes, 100 Sears shops had been open on the finish of 2020.

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