Sears Holdings Closing 80 Stores

Sears Holdings announced yesterday they would close 80 stores as they continue there life in bankruptcy court. Liquidation sales begin in 2 weeks in the stores will close in Late-March. Some good news out of yesterday is that Eddie Lampert has actually summited a bid to buy Sears Holdings. He hasn't bought the company yet but it's some fresh air for a little bit. Here's the new list:

Kmart:
Tucson, AZ
Stockton, CA
Apple Valley, CA
Burbank, CA
Auburn, CA
Vernon, CT
Fort Walton Beach, FL
Ellenton, FL
Peru, IN
Metairie, LA (Last Kmart in Louisiana)
Baltimore, MD
Rochester, MN
Crystal City, MO (Last Kmart in Missouri)
Gulfport, MS (Last Kmart in Mississippi)
Asheville, NC
Morganton, NC
Morehead City, NC
Grand Forks, ND
Alliance, NE (Last Kmart in Nebraska)
Toms River, NJ
Roswell, NM
Queensbury, NY
Horseheads, NY
Wellsville, NY (Was on the top 50 profitable stores)
Greenwich, NY
Cleveland, OH
Fostoria, OH
Pittsburgh, PA
Erie, PA
Sumter, SC
Rapid City, SD (Last Kmart in South Dakota)
Kingsport, TN
Sevierville, TN
Spokane, WA
Oconomowoc, WI

Sears:
*Colorado Springs, CO (Both Stores)
*Pubelo, CO
Daytona Beach, FL
*Tallahassee, FL
*Tampa, FL
*Port Charlotte, FL
*Port Richey, FL
*Gainsville, GA
*Sioux City, IA (Last Sears in Iowa)
*Fairview Heights, IL
*Rockford, IL
*Wichita, KS
Metairie, LA
*Salisbury, MD
*Muskegon, MI
Novi, MI
Bloomington, MN (Last Sears in Minnesota)
*Durham, NC (Both Stores)
*Omaha, NE
*Lincoln, NE
*Las Vegas, NV (Maryland Parkway)
*Rochester, NY
Dublin, OH
*Columbus, OH
*Springfield, OH
*Medford, OR
*Lancaster, PA
*Greensburg, PA (Was in the 10 most profitable Sears in 1993)
*Altoona, PA
Goodlettsville, TN
Jackson, TN
*Richardson, TX
*Abilene, TX
*Plano, TX
*Waco, TX
*Amarillo, TX
*Killeen, TX
Port Arthur, TX
*Charlottsville, VA
*Kennewick, WA
Appleton, WI

*= Sears Auto Center Closing Late January 2019

Shopko Hometown-Mauston Wisconsin-Store Closing February 2018

Today, we get to look at a soon to be closing Shopko Hometown in Mauston, Wisconsin. This location opened on October 2nd, 2015 on a site of a former Marathon Gas Station. It was recently announced as one of the 39 stores to close in February 2019. Lets take a look at this store from March 2018.

 The Mauston Dam

 The Shopko Hometown Store

 Pharmacy Drive Thru

 Right as your enter the store

 You can easily see how everything is squished into a small space

 Payless Shoesoure Section

 Health and Beauty/ What else do I see?

 The Pharmacy closed, I should mention that the Pharmacy was added a year later in November 2016 from a view on Google Streetview. As you can tell, the Pharmacy failed and it closed. A clear sign of struggling business.

 The Checkouts and Shopko Hometown Pantry in the distance

 The Fitting Rooms

It is clear this store was an under preforming store as we saw, that's cause there's a Kmart in town which Mauston is very small so that's why this Shopko Hometown struggled. I do hope somebody takes that location and turns into something cause Mauston in beautiful small town and would deserve it.

Shopko Closing 39 Stores

Shopko has announced that 39 stores will close, mainly Shopko Hometown Stores. Liquidation Sales will start on December 7, 2018 and the store will permanently close Late-February 2019.
The green colored locations are the ones I've been to.
Here's the list of the stores closing:
Leadville, Colorado                                                                       
Buena Vista, Colorado
Bonners Ferry, Idaho
Dwight, Illinois(Shopko Hometown)
Webster City, Iowa(Shopko Hometown)
Cherokee, Iowa(Shopko Hometown)
Eldora, Iowa
Anthony, Kansas
Russell, Kansas
Phillipsburg, Kansas
Clay Center, Kansas(Shopko Hometown)
Lyons, Kansas
Larned, Kansas                                                                                                                                          Brandenburg, Kentucky
Mahnomen, Minnesota
Paynesville, Minnesota
Albany, Missouri
Plentywood, Montana
Lincoln, Nebraska(Northwest)(Shopko)
Ord, Nebraska(Shopko Hometown)
Kimball, Nebraska(Shopko Hometown)
Lovington, New Mexico
Oakes, North Dakota
Stanley, North Dakota
Lisbon, North Dakota
Mayville, North Dakota
Fairview, Oklahoma
Redfield, South Dakota
Wagner, South Dakota
Webster, South Dakota                                                           
Dell Rapids, South Dakota
Presidio, Texas
Delta, Utah
Nephi, Utah
Blanding, Utah
Beaver, Utah
Spokane, Washington(Shopko)
Mauston, Wisconsin(Shopko Hometown)
Greybull, Wyoming

Kmart and Sears stores sold to U-Haul

U-Haul has made a deal with Sears Holdings to buy 13 stores for 62 million both opened or closed. Here's the list of stores effective:                                                                                                                3115 Airport Way-Fairbanks, Alaska (Sears)
  308 Dix Avenue-Queensbury, New York (Kmart)
  2875 Santa Maria Way-Santa Maria, California (Kmart)     
  4110 East Sprague Avenue-Spokane, Washington (Kmart)   
  5909 East State Street-Rockford, Illinois (Kmart)               
  20777 Bear Valley Road-Apply Valley, California (Kmart)
  200 Irwin Avenue-Fort Walton Beach, Florida (Kmart)
  1805 East Stone Drive-Kingsport, Tennessee (Kmart)   
  3250 Clear Lake Road-Springfield, Illinois (Kmart)
  996 West View Park Drive-Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Kmart)
  1309 North High Street-Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin (Kmart)
  17850 Frazho Road-Roseville Michigan (Kmart)
  1705 South Main Street-Roswell, New Mexico (Kmart)
  
  I'm a little shock that locations that are still opened are being sold to U-Haul. Also, the Fort Atkinson Kmart location has been closed since January 2014 and yet they still own that which I thought was strange.
Thanks for reading, more is on the way here on Midwest Retail!

Toys R Us/Babies R Us-Schaumburg Illinois

Today, we'll take a look at the Toys R Us/Babies R Us location in Schaumburg, Illinois which I've never published to Flickr yet to get some other trips up including the Iowa City trip which I took 2 to 4 days after these pics were token. This Toys R Us opened in the 90's like most of our Toys R Us locations. To be honest, this location was really boring likely cause of the liquidation sale but it was a very depressing and boring experience. Let's get to the photos

 The Front Facade

 Store Closing

 Windows With Going Out Of Business Signs 

 The Front Door

 Welcome Your Store Guide

 Large Liquidation Signs!

 Here we are within the store!

 Marvels and Star Wars

 Going Out Of Business Signs and Lego Section

 Lego Section

 Electronics

 I'll Always Be A Toys R Us Kid Posters

 Boxes Of Toys

 Babies R Us Section

 Toys R Us and Babies R Us Right Next To Each Other

 Empty Selves

 Disney Junior Section

 Babies R Us Register Area

 Guest Service Area

 Follow Us On Instagram Despite The Fact We're Going Out Of Business

 Mom Private Room

 Toys R Us Front

The Next Photos will also involve a Pop-Up Thunderstorm that would hit the Schaumburg area a few minutes after these photos were token. It poured down for a few minutes till the Sun came back up immediately after it finished. 

Thanks For Reading! Hope you enjoyed these photos and we got more to feature on here soon!

Kmart-State Street-Rockford Illinois-Closing

Kmart #4423 opened on October 7, 1971 and was 104,000 Square Feet. Sadly, this Kmart announced closing on May 31, 2018 to close in Early September, this store permanently closed on September 2nd, 2018. This closing was really sad to me cause I've been here 3 times before and all the experience has been great including talking to employees who were great as well. This location was also unique to as it was one of two locations with a white and green look which they tried out in November 2007 and they sadly never expanded the concept. Let's take the look at the liquidation of this store twice. Here's the article published about the remolded: http://www.rrstar.com/x1909898350

Sunday July 8, 2018

 Looking at the store being blocked by trees

 Full View of Store

  Packed Cause The Stores Closing

Pantry

Clothing

Candy

Notice the White sign and Green walls, That's the remolded I'm talking about

 

 Outdoor Items

 

 Heading Into Garden Shop

 Thanks For Shopping Big Kmart

 Garden Shop Checkout, Only The Des Plaines store uses this still

 The Rest Of The Garden Shop

 This Section was already done

 Looking from the Outdoor Stuff

 This is defiantly one blurry picture

 Toys

 More Toys

 Electronics With Garden Supplies In It

 Notice All Of Those White Decor Signs

 Kitchen 

 Some Hockey Tables

 Over there is Layaway, That's the Old Garden Shop before the 2007 remolded. The Current Garden Shop is in the old Auto Center 

 Furniture

 Furniture and Footwear

 Appliances and More Furniture

 Into Clothing

 Old Pharmacy, this Pharmacy closed last year when Kmart closed several under preforming Pharmacies. The Pharmacist relocated to the CVS in the area which I was told in my first visit

 This is an Old Doctor's office

 Heath and Beauty and Clothing

 This Store Look was for stores built between 1962 and 1971.

 The Updated Garden Shop is over there

 The Pharmacy Lablescar is over there

 The Look at this Store

 I decided to take more of this sign

 Big Kmart 

 Brat Day at Kmart! So would have gone!

 This Parking Lot is busy despite it never being this busy before the liquidation

 More Trees

 Kmart Store Closing Sale sign is for some reason put over the Big Kmart sign

 The 1 Hour Photo sign was below the Big Kmart sign

A Full View at the Big Kmart

My Next update was in Mid-August before the store closed permanently, during this, an argument was going on between employees and a customer as the customer wanted to return an idea she bought during the liquidation sales and was not allowed to return the idea. She wasn't very happy and made a big deal about it and ended up yelling to the point were you could here her in the entire store. She said she was gonna call 911 over it and the employees said ok since it's not illegal to not be able to return an idea. If you want to return that idea, you could have shop here before the liquidation sales and be able to return if it doesn't work either. Also, she clearly didn't understand that they bring in stuff they can't sell at other stores and hope to sell them here. The employees ended up trying to call the police and they never showed up. Rockford being how it is on the West and South side has some low income people while the North and East side has the well income people so here you have idea if someone gonna have a gun or something else that could possibly injure people. Thankfully the security guard got her out without people getting injured so I do give the security guard on that. My pictures you can't tell but in my video which will be on my Youtube, you'll be able to here but not see as we do store tour here's, not fights or arguments. Let's take a look at the store

Sunday August 19, 2018

 Big Kmart Sign in the Distiance

 The Look Again

 Right Side of the Outside of the store

 The Left Side of the Outside of the Store

 Big Kmart Sign

 Jewelry

 For Jewelry Assistance Please Press Button

 Call For Service and Dead Section

 Price Scanner

 The Argument which gladly you can't see is going on this section near customer service

 Kmart Press Button

 Checkouts

 Last Time To See

 Kmart Store Closing Adds

 Entrance and Exit to the Store

 Kenmore and Craftsman

 Garden Shop Entrance and Exit

 Garden Shop

 New and Old Garden Shop

Old Garden Shop

I hope you enjoyed this pictures and I hope the employees at this location have all got new jobs as this was a sad closing for alot of people including me. This was a Great Location and the employees made it so much better. During the Argument when she was super loud, I actually started to cry cause I was thinking about the employees cause there were awesome and made a Kmart in the city actually feel like a small town Kmart which people knew people. I really hope the best for this property is hopefully, it will be a great future for this location.