Kmart Forever

Note: Sears Grand doesn't exist anymore. The last store, in Rancho Cucamonga, California closed in mid-May 2021. So, once upon a time (well, uh, 2003), before Sears and Kmart merged, Sears wanted to expand with a new off-mall concept, (even at that point it was already kind of obvious that malls were on their way out). So, in October 2003, the first Sears Grand opened its doors, located in West Jordan, Utah. By 2005, there were 8 more Sears Grands (and they were actually really nice, even in 2021 they look just as nice as a 2018-build Target store).  The first Sears Grand, in West Jordan, Utah ( Caldorwards4 on Wikipedia ) But by Spring 2005, SHC wanted to convert a bunch of Kmarts to freestanding Sears stores. So they launched Sears Essentials, which turned out to be a major flop (you can read about all that failure here). After they found out that that had failed, someone had the bright idea (I'm clearly being sarcastic here) to do the same thing a...

Sears Essentials. Almost everybody that has an interest in retail knows what it is, or has at least heard of it. But despite Sears Holdings' attempts to make the new name stick, it never really did. Here's the story of the beginning of the end for Sears Holdings. To get started, here's a basic history of Sears Essentials. In 2005, the newly-formed Sears Holdings Corporation must've been under the impression that Kmart was the weaker brand (compared to Sears), so they decided to remodel about 50 Kmart stores into a new format called "Sears Essentials". Unfortunately, Sears Essentials turned out to be a miserable failure for the company and ultimately ended up killing many popular Kmart stores before they actually were in a position that they were unprofitable. Most Sears Essentials stores were gone by 2010, and any locations that made it past that point were converted back to Kmart in 2011 or early 2012. Kaylin Wilson sets up children's clothes in a...

The Kmart in Costa Mesa, California will be closing in the next few months.

Sears #2484, located at the Coventry Mall in Pottstown, Pennsylvania opened in 1967 with the mall. It appears to have received an exterior remodel in the 1990s, as it resembles the 1999-build store in Exton . It closed in 2012, Gabe's opened in half of the building in 2017. In 2014, Limerick Furniture opened on the left side. That ended up closing around 2018. There was no separate auto center. The store while it was open (https://pottstownpost.com) Looking from the far left of the store. The space occupied by Gabe's starts at the blue line. The vacant side of the building The right side of the building, occupied by Gabe's Quick Information: Opened: 1967 Closed...