Sears was once a retail giant with over 3,500 stores, a number that included Kmart locations after its 2005 merger. But today, it is a mere shadow of what it once was, and people are wondering if it ...

In 2005, Sears Holdings was one of the largest retailers in the world with more than 3,400 Sears and KMart locations combined. But as 2025 comes to an end, Sears operates just five locations, having ...

Sears began in 1892 as a mail-order catalog business, bringing a vast range of goods to customers long before suburban shopping centers existed. Over the following decades it expanded into physical ...

Sears is finally approaching the end of a retail story that once defined American shopping. After decades of shrinking footprints, restructurings, and last-ditch reinventions, the chain that helped ...