Sears / Kmart has 44 Arizona Stores for Sale

Sears / Kmart announced several years ago the closing of excess stores. Yet what you never hear about in the news anymore is how many stores Sears Holdings, corporate parent of Sears and Kmart, is planning to close, even as they continue to shut down under-performing stores.

If your local store is staying open (or is already gone) or you don’t run a Google alert on the subject, you might not even realize that the company is closing any stores at all. Yet Sears Holdings has actually shed a lot of stores in the last half-decade, without splashy national announcements that would make non-locals notice.

There’s nothing wrong with closing stores, or closing them without announcing it. Sears Holdings had too many stores, many of which are too big for its current needs. It’s disruptive and terrible when people lose their jobs, and can be very inconvenient for customers, but closing under-performing stores or giving up a location when the lease is up is how a business survives. (Sometimes not closing stores dooms a business faster: ask Radio Shack.)

The lack of a store closing list releases means fewer “Sears is doomed!” stories in the news, which the company would certainly prefer. Yet once we noticed this pattern, we started to look through news reports for scheduled closings in 2016.

Western Retail Advisors of Phoenix recently sent out Sears and Kmart stores available in California, New Mexico and Arizona and can be contacted at 602.778.3747 for more information. Sears Holdings shows the following list of 44 stores in Arizona as available at its website Sears Holding Real Estate