Bethesda MD Sears 5575 B Drive N Battle Creek MI Sears 1740 Bonita Lakes Circle Meridian MS Sears 1001 Barnes Crossing Road Tupelo MS Sears 3320 Silas Creek Pkwy Winston Salem NC Sears 3404 W 13Th St Grand Island NE Sears 101013 Grand Canyon Dr Las Vegas NV Sears 3065 Route 50 Saratoga Spgs NY Sears 21182 Salmon Run Mall Watertown NY Sears 987 E Ash St Piqua OH Sears 1665 State Hill Road Reading / Wyomissing PA Sears 344 Stroud Mall Stroudsburg PA Sears 2197 Dave Lyle Blvd Rock Hill SC Sears Southland Mall Memphis TN Sears 401 Northgate Mall Chattanooga TN Sears 198 Foothills Mall Maryville TN Sears 1720 Old Fort Pkwy Murfreesboro TN Sears 750 Sunland Park Dr El Paso TX Sears Longview Texas Mall Longview TX Sears 10101 Brook Road Glen Allen / Richmond VA Sears 2500 Milton Ave Janesville WI
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Kmart 218777 W Redlands Redlands CA Kmart 239 Palm Drive Desert Hot Springs CA Kmart 23 Wilbraham Road Palmer MA Kmart 2330 Fairmount Avenue Jamestown NY Kmart Puerto Rico Hwy 2600 Plaza Guayama Guayama PR Sears* 21101 Riverchase Galleria Birmingham AL Sears* Somersville Road Antioch CA Sears* 48123 W Bowles Avenue Littleton CO Sears* 24812 24700Th Street Vero Beach FL Sears* 2100 Us 27 N Sebring FL Sears* 3700 Atlanta Hwy Ste 270 Athens GA Sears* 5 Stratford Square Bloomingdale IL Sears* 2300 Southlake Mall Merrillville IN Sears* 6501 Grape Rd Us 47003 Mishawaka IN Sears* 6901 Security Sq Blvd Baltimore MD Sears* 6780 S Westnedge Avenue Portage MI Sears* 4900 Fashion Square Mall Saginaw MI Sears* 18777 E 39Th St S Independence MO Sears* 3 Mid Rivers Mall Drive St Peters MO Sears 330 Siemers Drive Cape Girardeau MO Sears* 600 Richland Mall Mansfield OH Sears* 1101 Melbourne Rd Hurst TX Sears* 10000 Emmett F Lowry Expy Texas City TX Sears* 4812 Valley View Blvd Ne Roanoke VA Sears* 4700 N Division Street Spokane WA Sears* 100 Huntington Mall Road Barboursville WV *: The Sears Auto Center at this location is set to close in late August.
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San, Patricio Guaynabo / San Juan Kmart: Betamces 400, Las Catalinas Mall, Caguas South Carolina Sears: 2197 Dave Lyle Blvd, Rock Hill Tennessee Sears: Southland Mall, Memphis Sears: 401 Northgate Mall, Chattanooga Sears: 198 Foothills Mall, Maryville Sears: 1720 Old Fort Pkwy, Murfreesboro Texas Sears: 750 Sunland Park Dr, El Paso Sears: Longview Texas Mall, Longview Virginia Sears: 10101 Brook Road, Glen Allen / Richmond Wisconsin Sears: 2500 Milton Ave, Janesville Kmart: 6077 S Packard Avenue, Cudahy Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the state in which the Fairbanks Sears store is located.
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San Patricio Guaynabo / San Juan Puerto Rico Kmart Betamces 2987, Las Catalinas Mall Caguas Puerto Rico Kmart 21665 S Packard Avenue Cudahy WI Sears Airport Way Fairbanks AK Sears 2344 E Cactus Road Phoenix AZ Sears La Cumbre Plz Santa Barbara CA Sears 22197 Lewis Ave Meriden CT Sears 2401 N Congress Ave Boynton Beach FL Sears 2198 Nw Federal Hwy Us#7503 Jensen Beach FL Sears 2750 E 210101Th St Idaho Falls ID Sears Marquette Mall Michigan City IN Sears 22500 Democracy Blvd.
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Here's the list of the 40 stores Sears announced would close Thursday, by state or US territory: Alaska Sears: Airport Way, Fairbanks Arizona Sears: 4604 E Cactus Road, Phoenix California Kmart: 26471 Ynez Road, Temecula Sears: La Cumbre Plz, Santa Barbara Connecticut Sears: 470 Lewis Ave, Meriden Florida Sears: 801 N Congress Ave, Boynton Beach FL Sears: 3342 Nw Federal Hwy Us#7503, Jensen Beach Illinois Kmart: 3443 W Addison, Chicago Kmart: 3250 Clear Lake Road, Springfield Idaho Sears: 2300 E 2100Th St, Idaho Falls Indiana Sears: Marquette Mall, Michigan City Maine Kmart: 2400 Elm Plaza, Waterville Maryland Sears: 22197 Democracy Blvd.
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Sears continues to explore strategic initiatives for its Kenmore and DieHard brands, Sears Home Services and Sears Auto Centers businesses.
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Sears sells big-ticket Kenmore appliances such as refrigerators and air-conditioners only in its Sears, Kmart and Sears Hometown stores.
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Sears Holdings is the bankrupt remnants of the old Sears.
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Sears Canada was spun off from Sears Holdings in 2013.
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Sears and Kmart merged to form Sears Holdings in 2005.
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Sears — Sears will close 78 Sears and Kmart stores over the next few months, amounting to about 5 percent of its current stores.
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Less than 7,000 Sears customers were supposedly impacted, according to Sears.
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Sears Canada, which was spun off from Sears Holdings Corp. SHLD.
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The fate of Sears: This week could determine whether Sears survives.
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Sears' pension plans were frozen in 2005, when Lampert took control of the company and merged Sears and Kmart merged to create Sears Holdings.
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This strategy may even undermine what could lead to long-term success : particularly for Sears, its household brand names like Kenmore, Sears Home Services, Sears Auto Centers, and Die Hard give the Sears name value, per Forbes.
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"Customers using a Sears-branded credit card were not impacted," Sears said.
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As Sears' competitors invested in its stores, Sears took a different approach.
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Lampert, who is Sears' chairman, has proposed buying Sears for $4.6 billion.
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Walmart and Sears have tried it; Sears even tested unattended appliance repairs.
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Sears Hometown never stopped depending on Sears Holdings for just about everything.
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Many doubt Sears Hometown will be able to survive a Sears liquidation.
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The restructured company, which has 2018 Sears outlets and 202 Kmart stores, will keep Sears Auto Centers, Sears Homer Services and the Kenmore and DieHard brands.
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Sears plans to close at least 122 Sears and Kmart stores by January.
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Sears Holdings announced it is closing 64 Kmart stores and 39 Sears stores.
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Other businesses, including Sears Hometown and Outlet and Sears Canada, were also removed.
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Sears previously disclosed it would shutter 26 Sears and Kmart stores, this fall.
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That made him Sears' largest creditor: Sears owes him at least $1.3 billion.
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Lampert combined Sears and Kmart in 2005, pledging to return Sears to greatness.
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Lampert has said in court filings he believes "Old Sears" has failed to hand over "New Sears" certain inventory and property at Sears' Illinois headquarters, as promised.
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CEO Eddie Lampert recently said Sears has been looking for ways to "unlock value" from several of its brands, including Sears Home Services and Sears Auto Services.
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Lampert soon merged Kmart with Sears, Roebuck & Co, creating a new giant Sears Holdings.
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Sears Holdings – Sears has begun skipping payments to vendors, according to a Reuters report.
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Sears and Kmart make up Sears Holding, which filed for bankruptcy on October 15.
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If Sears Holdings survives bankruptcy, it will have only 000 full Sears- branded stores.
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Unlike the traditional Sears Auto Center, DieHard shops aren't typically located near Sears stores.
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Lampert bought Sears and merged it with Kmart in 2005 to form Sears Holdings.
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Sears filed for bankruptcy in October 2018 with about 700 Sears and Kmart stores.
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In 2015, Sears sold 235 Sears and Kmart store locations to Seritage as part of an agreement in which Sears Holdings leases the stores back from the REIT.
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The company struck a partnership with Sears that allows customers to buy Sears tires from Amazon and get them shipped to Sears Auto Centers around the country for installation.
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Sears has announced plans to close more than 300 Kmart and Sears stores in 2017.
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Sears Holdings, which owns Sears department stores and Kmart, filed for bankruptcy on Oct. 15.
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Lampert, Sears' chairman, is purchasing Sears through an affiliate of his hedge fund ESL Investments.
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Sears Holdings — Sears issued a warning about its ability to continue as a going concern.
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Sears Holdings, the parent company of Sears and Kmart, had no immediate comment on closings.
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In November 2018, Sears announced that 40 Sears and Kmart stores would close their doors.
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Sears Holdings will close another 46 unprofitable Sears and Kmart stores in November, reports Bloomberg.
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Richard W. Sears founded the R. W. Sears Watch Company in 1886 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Sears reached new heights in 1969 by breaking ground on the Sears Tower in Chicago.
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Sears Canada, which in 2012 was spun off from U.S. retailer Sears Holdings Corp SHLD.
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Kmart's own problems only distracted Sears Holdings' top managers from their efforts to fix Sears.
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He let Sears and Kmart stores grow barren and rundown, eventually leading Sears into bankruptcy.
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Sears declares bankruptcy: Retail chain Sears filed for bankruptcy in the early hours of Monday.
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And so Sears has been split up into multiple companies to create more value, but also to raise cash for Sears itself, like Seritage (Sears real estate), Orchard Supply Hardware.
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Sears Hometown and Outlet stores was spun-off by the now-bankrupt Sears Holdings in 2000.
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The closings comprise 43 Sears and 37 Kmart stores, the two brands operated by Sears Holdings.
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Sears Holdings, which includes both the Sears and Kmart brands, filed for bankruptcy on October 15.
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Although Sears Canada is a separate company, Sears Holdings owns about 12 percent of its shares.
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In 1895, Richard W. Sears began planning and writing the soon-to-be-famous Sears catalogs.
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That year, Sears also opened its catalog plant and the Sears Merchandise Building Tower in Chicago.
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In the early 2000s, Kmart acquired Sears to form a new major company, Sears Holdings Corporation.
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He is seeking to buy Sears through his hedge fund, offering $5.2 billion for Sears' assets.
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Sears Holdings, the parent company of Sears and Kmart, has to come up with $19783 million.
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For Sears, which owns the Sears department store and the Kmart discount chain, the quarterly loss included a $180 million noncash charge to write down the value of the Sears trade name.
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A plan to kill Sears Some Sears creditors, including landlords and vendors, believe shutting down the company is the best way to retrieve the greatest portion of the money Sears owes them.
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A plan to kill Sears Some Sears creditors, including landlords and vendors, believe shutting the company down is the best way to retrieve the greatest portion of the money Sears owes them.
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Sears closed 28 Kmart locations and 73 domestic Sears stores during the quarter that ended Nov. 3.
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Sears, for example, said the 210 Sears and Kmart locations it plans to close are not profitable.
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Sears Holdings, which owns Sears and Kmart, filed for bankruptcy today, 125 years after it was founded.
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Sears – Sears suppliers are reducing shipments and asking for better payment terms, according to a Reuters report.
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Sears — Sears Chief Executive Officer Edward Lampert is buying some of the retailer's debt, according to Reuters.
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Sears Day Sears Day owns a dairy farm in Oxford, North Carolina, that's been operating since 1943.
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Consumers loved Sears' signature low prices, and soon Sears' main market shifted from urban to suburban consumers.
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It was already in trouble when Lampert merged Sears and Kmart in 2005 to form Sears Holdings.
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As of January, Sears Holdings said, it had 1,430 Sears and Kmart stores in the United States.
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Sears Canada's sales have fallen every quarter since it was spun off from Sears Holdings in 2012.
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Neither Sears nor Kmart carried the Trump Home products in their retail stores, a Sears Holdings spokesman said.
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ESL has stressed that all transactions it did with Sears during Lampert's tenure were approved by Sears' board.
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But Sears' unsecured creditors repeatedly argued that Lampert was the cause of, not the solution to, Sears' downfall.
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It started with Richard Sears, who launched the Sears Watch Co. in 1886 to sell watches by mail.
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Eddie Lampert, the CEO and chairman of Sears until its bankruptcy, remains the majority shareholder in Sears Hometown.
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In its December earnings report, Sears Hometown said it expected to stay in business despite Sears Holdings' bankruptcy.
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A plan to keep Sears alive Sears is in the process of rounding up bidders for its assets.
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What happens if Sears dies If Drain decides for the creditors, he will order the liquidation of Sears.
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Sears: At least 40 stores in 24 states — 31 Sears and 9 Kmarts — are closing, per Business Insider.
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Lampert formed the modern Sears through an $11 billion merger in 2005 that combined Sears Roebuck and Kmart.
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Business Insider recently reported that Sears planned to close at least 122 Sears and Kmart stores by January.
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Sears Holdings, the parent company of Sears and Kmart, has to come up with $134 million by Monday.
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Sears and Kmart merged to form Sears Holdings in 2005, when they had 3,500 US stores between them.
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Sears and Kmart merged to form Sears Holdings in 2005 when they had 3,500 US stores between them.
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Tears for Sears: Sears (SHLD) appears to be nearing bankruptcy and it could come as soon as Sunday.
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Sears' problems go back decades Sears fell out of shoppers' favor over the past decades as online stores and big box rivals, including Walmart (WMT) and Home Depot (HD), beat Sears on price and convenience.
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Meantime, ESL has stressed that all transactions it did with Sears during Lampert's tenure were approved by Sears' board.
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Still, ESL has stressed that all transactions it did with Sears during Lampert's tenure were approved by Sears' board.
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Lampert bought Kmart out of bankruptcy through ESL and ultimately combined it with Sears, to create Sears Holdings Corporation.
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Sears, the parent company of Sears, Roebuck and Kmart, said it plans to close 20.09 of its 2100 stores.
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Sears Chairman Eddie Lampert is partnering with Cyrus Capital Partners in its bid for Sears Holdings, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
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Seritage then paid $2.6 billion for Sears and Kmart stores, most of which were leased back to Sears Holding.
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Sears Holdings – Sears has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and plans to close 142 more of its stores.
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Sears said it has contributed about $4.5 billion to pension plans since the 2005 merger of Sears and Kmart.
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When Transform Holdco bought Sears out of bankruptcy in February, the company had roughly 400 Sears and Kmart stores.
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When Transform Holdco bought Sears out of bankruptcy in February, the company had roughly 400 Sears and Kmart stores.
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Transform Holdco LLC, Sears' parent company run by chairman Eddie Lampert, bought Sears out of bankruptcy in March 2019.
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Neither Sears nor Kmart carried the Trump Home products in their retail stores, a Sears Holdings Corp spokesman said.
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Sears Holdings announced its plans to close 64 Kmart stores and 39 Sears stores by April of this year.
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Liquidation sales at the 33 Sears stores and 13 Kmarts are expected to begin next week, according to Sears.
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Sears and Kmart have been in a somewhat unhappy marriage since they merged in 2005 to form Sears Holdings.
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Sears Holdings, the parent company of Sears and Kmart, faces a Monday deadline to pay $134 million in debt.
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So the organization partnered with more than 60 Kmart and Sears employees, including Brewer, to send a letter last Thursday to Sears owners, creditors, and investors, requesting they consider employee rights as Sears prepares to restructure.
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Three years ago, Sears sold about 235 stores to Seritage Growth Properties, a spinoff company that was created to convert Sears and Kmart locations — which Sears also owns — into more valuable uses like offices and restaurants.
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Sears and ESL's lawyers hunkered down again, as advisors ran through the offices meeting with Sears' restructuring committee and ESL.
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Go deeper: How sluggishness killed Sears The cannibal of Sears Mall massacre: 75% of shopping malls will be wiped away
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And Sears will be very much a regional player, with Sears and Kmart stores absent in much of America's heartland.
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If Sears' plan to survive the bankruptcy process is successful, it will have 223 Sears stores and 202 Kmart stores.
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Sears said it has about $779 million due in 2020, which is secured by 69 Sears-owned real estate assets.
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Lampert is the chief executive of U.S.-based Sears Holdings Co, from which Sears Canada was spun off in 2012.
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Unlike Sears in the United States, Sears Canada never quit the business of producing and sending out mail-order catalogs.
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Sears Holdings – Sears has not run any paid national television commercials since late November, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Sears and Kmart workers have gone toe-to-toe with Eddie Lampert, the billionaire hedge fund owner who destroyed Sears.
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Sears Holdings (SHLD), the parent company of Sears and Kmart, faces a Monday deadline to pay that much in debt.
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Lampert, who through ESL is Sears' biggest shareholder and creditor, formed Sears Holdings in 2005 by acquiring Sears Roebuck in an $11 billion deal and combining it with discount chain Kmart, which he had also taken over.
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In bankruptcy proceedings, Sears' unsecured creditors have argued there may be claims against Sears for deals done under Lampert's tenure as CEO and its largest shareholder, which include Sears' spinoff of Lands' End in 2014 and transactions with Seritage Growth Properties, a real estate investment trust Lampert created through some Sears' properties a year later.
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Some of Sears' creditors have taken aim at some of Sears' transactions under Lampert's leadership, including his spinoff of Lands' End and transactions with Seritage Growth Properties, the real estate investment trust Lampert created through select Sears properties.
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Lampert reached a deal with Sears early Wednesday morning to acquire 425 Sears stores and other assets for about $5.2 billion.
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Sears Holdings said it will close 68 Kmart stores and 10 Sears stores in an effort to get back to profitability.
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The hedge fund titan who combined Sears and Kmart in 193 led Sears Holdings as its chairman, CEO and largest investor.
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Additional real estate proceeds: Fitch estimates that Sears still owns approximately 190 unencumbered Kmart discount and Sears full-line mall stores.
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Sears Holdings, parent company of Sears and Kmart, posted a better-than-expected loss of $558 million in the third quarter.
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It includes Sears Holdings, which said Friday that it would shutter 92 Kmart pharmacies and 50 Sears Auto locations this year.
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"For whatever reason, Sears' board said enough is enough," said Chad Brand, president of Peridot Capital Management, which holds Sears bonds.
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REAGAN: YOU'VE SAID THAT YOU HOPE TO PICK UP SOME SHOPPERS THAT PERHAPS ARE LEAVING SEARS OR AS SEARS CLOSES STORES.
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Sears — To get to the last Sears located in New York, we headed to the Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
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Critics, including some Sears creditors, contend he let Sears deteriorate even as he invested in the retailer and loaned it money.
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Sears, once the world&aposs largest retailer, had more than 217,22017 US stores under its Sears and Kmart banners in 2010.
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Sears said in November that it planned to close 96 stores in February, including 51 Sears stores and 45 Kmart stores.
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Sears also suffered during the season, with comparable-store sales at its Sears and Kmart units down at least 12 percent.
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With a headquarters located in the Sears Tower, once the tallest building in the world, Sears&apos influence was known worldwide.
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Sears Holdings, the parent company of Sears and Kmart, faces an October 20063 deadline to pay $22006 million on its debt.
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Three companies that sell items at Sears told Reuters that Sears had missed payments to them over the past few weeks.
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Sears Holdings — Sears reported a quarterly loss of $3.11 per share, smaller than the loss of $4.06 per share expected by analysts.
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Sears' store count includes the closure of 68 Kmart stores and most of the 10 Sears locations that were announced in April.
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Keeping Sears alive may be the only way to ensure its other businesses, like Sears Home Services, can continue on as well.
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Sears has already said that same-store sales at Sears and Kmart declined between 12 and 13 percent in November and December.
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Sears Chairman Eddie Lampert is working on a higher bid to keep Sears alive, a person familiar with the situation told CNBC.
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Other Sears assets that were sold off include Lands' End (LE), Orchard Supply Hardware Stores, and Sears Hometown and Outlet stores (SHOS).
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Close unprofitable stores: Sears announced it will close an additional 33711 non-profitable stores, comprised of 3371212 Kmart and 3371908 Sears stores.
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Here is how it's been reflected in Sears' case: In January, Sears sold its iconic Craftsman tools brand to Stanley Black & Decker.
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The Sears store will stay open until mid-July, and the Sears Auto Center, also at Six Corners, will close next month.
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Sears Holdings, which includes both Sears and Kmart, has been burning through cash at a rate of about $125 million a month.
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ESL is offering to take equity stakes in Sears in return for forgiving $1.8 billion of secured debt that Sears owes it.
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Lampert, who gave up the CEO role at Sears as part of the filing, has been loaning money to Sears for years.
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Sears once dominated retail Sears started 133 years ago and grew to become the largest and most important retailer in the nation.
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The fate of Sears: The moment of truth has arrived for Sears (SHLDQ), once the United States' largest and most important retailer.
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Sears and Kmart, which merged in 2005 to form Sears Holdings, have been squeezed by other big box retailers and Amazon (AMZN).
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Vendors have been shrinking their reliance on Sears in recent years, but Sears still owes millions to appliance, tool, and electronics companies.
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What happens if Sears lives If Drain rules for Sears, Lampert or another buyer would acquire the assets necessary to keep the company operational: the leases or property of stores, the Kenmore appliance brand, and Sears' computer systems and warehouses.
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Since 2012, Sears has been raising cash through a series of spinoffs or sales of entities including Sears Hometown and Outlet, a national retailer that focused on appliances and lawn and garden equipment, as well as Lands' End and Sears Canada.
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Even Sears' biggest advocate, Chairman Eddie Lampert knows his $24.6 billion bid for Sears may not be enough to keep the retailer alive.
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Sears Holdings will shutter 108 Kmart and 42 Sears stores over the next few months, as it looks to stem its operating losses.
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Sears is also in talks to potentially sell off its Kenmore, Craftsman and DieHard brands, as well as its Sears Home Services businesses.
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Sears has also started closing 193 under-performing pharmacy operations in some Kmart stores, and 219 Sears Auto Center locations, the company said.
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Sears announced this week it will open three "Sears Home & Life" stores in May, in Anchorage, Alaska; Lafayette, Louisiana; and Overland Park, Kansas.
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Sears, which operates both the Sears and Kmart chains, is teetering, having failed to reinvent itself under Lampert's leadership in the digital age.
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Shares of Sears Hometown and Outlet (SHOS) have lost nearly 30% since Sears' bankruptcy, and more than 90% since its own 2012 IPO.
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Sears is also planning to close another round of Sears and Kmart stores before the end of the year, according to the company.
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I lived for several years in a Sears catalog home, shipped to my town by Sears at the turn of the 25th century.
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Sears is currently evaluating a bid from Lampert's hedge fund, ESL Investments, to buy the Kenmore appliance brand from Sears for $400 million.
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Sears – Sears saw sales fall by almost a third during its latest quarter, declining to $4.4 billion from $6.1 billion a year earlier.
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Three companies that sell items at Sears told Reuters this week that Sears had missed payments to them over the past few weeks.
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Sears had its heyday in the time of lava lamps Property owners largely agree they will be better off without Sears and Kmart.
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Sears failed to keep up with the changing retail landscape, and along came Amazon, which many say is the Sears of the 21st century.
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Sears Chairman Eddie Lampert seemingly swooped in once again to save Sears, with a plan to pay to support it through its bankruptcy operations.
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Sears (SHLD) plans to close 78 Sears and Kmart stores over the next few months, amounting to about 5 percent of its current stores.
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Boutros' team will also consider opening Home & Life shops where there are already full-line Sears stores, if there's ample demand from Sears' customers.
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The reorganized Sears was expected to have about 425 Sears and Kmart stores, down from roughly 3,500 at the time of the 2005 merger.
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These actions will result in a reduction in Sears' debt and pension obligations, as well as its future risk from these liabilities, Sears said.
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"We see no viable path for Sears to succeed as a retailer," Bill Dreher, who covers Sears stock for Susquehanna Financial Group, tells WSJ.
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Sears recently closed on a deal to buy affiliated company Sears Hometown and about 414 of its stores, which sell lawn furniture and appliances.
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In another approach, Sears and its landlords, which include real estate spinoff , are trimming Sears' existing stores down, instead of shuttering those doors altogether.
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With respect to the stores identified in this map (listed on Sears' website), closing sales will kick off "in the near future," Sears said.
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A much smaller Sears Should Sears survive, it will be a much smaller retailer with no stores in a wide swath of Middle America.
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Sears is closing 211400 more Sears and Kmart stores in the US by February, a press release from the retailers' parent company announced Thursday.
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In 1986, Sears expanded into financial services with the launch of the Discover Card through Dean Witter Financial Services Group, a subsidiary of Sears.
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In 2005, Sears' completed its merger with Kmart, which had surpassed Sears to become the second-largest retailer in the United States, behind Walmart.
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Sears Sears filed for bankruptcy early this morning, after the once-dominant retailer couldn't make a $134 million debt payment that was due today.
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He said on the call he continued to invest in Sears because the stock was falling faster than the net value of Sears' assets.
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In September, Moody's analysts downgraded Sears' liquidity rating, saying Sears and Kmart don't have enough money — or access to money — to stay in business.
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The real estate investment trust finds itself in an especially unique position with Sears' bankruptcy in that it's also a member of an unsecured creditors committee now arguing Sears can't be saved, as Sears Chairman Eddie Lampert is still trying to salvage some 313 stores.
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But with Sears' real estate portfolio shrinking to an estimated 190 unencumbered Kmart and Sears stores, Fitch said the company is running low on assets.
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In 2015, Sears Holdings sold $2.7 billion worth of real estate to Seritage Growth Properties, a company formed to repurpose old Sears and Kmart stores.
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The fall could be steeper if Sears' rival J.C. Penney is unable to turn around its business beyond any short-term bumps from Sears' travails.
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Those deals include Sears' spinoff of Lands' End and transactions with Seritage Growth Properties, a real estate investment trust Lampert created through select Sears' properties.
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Those deals include Sears' spinoff of Lands' End and transactions with Seritage Growth Properties, a real estate investment trust Lampert created through some Sears' properties.
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Sears Holdings — Sears will close 64 more Kmart stores in the United States, according to Reuters, on top of 70 closings announced earlier this year.
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Sears' efforts to attract female shoppers by showing them the "softer side of Sears" and move into new businesses lines left it without an identity.
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The company's unsecured creditors included mall-owner Simon Property Group, which could arguably benefit from Sears' liquidation by replacing Sears stores with more profitable tenants.
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And Sears will not be cutting ties entirely with Whirlpool as a company, since Whirlpool will continue to manufacture the Kenmore appliances that Sears sells.
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Sears Holdings – The retailer will reportedly close 20 more U.S. Sears stores on top of the more than 200 closures it has already announced. Amazon.
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As Sears' bigger, anchor stores close, many of the Sears Auto Centers are being redeveloped into movie theaters and restaurants, according to multiple mall owners.
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For the month of November, Sears put its entire fleet of Sears and Kmart stores on sale, marking merchandise down as much as 50 percent.
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Sears is closing 26 more Sears and Kmart stores in the US in October, a press release from the retailers' parent company said on Tuesday.
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A plan to keep Sears alive At at December 18 court hearing Sears' attorneys said that multiple parties were interested in buying the company's assets.
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The liquidation sales will be held at 20 full-line Sears Canada department stores, 15 Sears Home outlets, 10 Outlet stores and 9 Hometown locations.
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Sears moved to spin off Lands' End at the end of the year; the apparel company's market value is now many times that of Sears.
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Seritage began redeveloping prime Sears and Kmart locations into more profitable multi-use properties while still collecting rent from Sears for stores that remained open.
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Edward S. Lampert, who controls Sears Holdings through ESL Investments, a hedge fund, holds about 45 percent of Sears Canada through ESL and other entities.
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"The goal of Sears was to sell to rural America and the goal of Sears was to make money," historian Louis Hyman told VICE News.
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Through an affiliate of his hedge fund ESL Investments, Lampert bought Sears and Kmart after their former parent, Sears Holdings, filed for bankruptcy in October.
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Sears Holdings, parent company of Sears and Kmart stores, told its employees Thursday that it will be closing more than 100 additional stores this year.
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The Sears Tower, which was renamed the Willis Tower after 36 years, was used as an office for Sears' main merchandising group and company headquarters.
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Sears Holdings (SHLD), the parent company of Sears and Kmart, is among dozens of prominent retailers to declare bankruptcy in the era of Amazon (AMZN).
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Among those department store chains that have been closing stores are Macy's, J.C. Penney and Sears Holdings, the parent company of Sears and Kmart stores.
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Sears Holdings (SHLD), the company which owns Sears and Kmart, is among dozens of prominent retailers to declare bankruptcy in the era of Amazon (AMZN).
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It has been negotiating with Sears for years, and the insurer believes Sears will be able to pay benefits for most of its 90,000 pensioners.
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AI, THAT PROVIDES ONLINE SUPPORT SERVICES TO SEARS AND KMART, NOTIFIED CO THAT THEY EXPERIENCED SECURITY INCIDENT LAST FALL * SEARS HOLDINGS SAYS INCIDENT INVOLVED UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO LESS THAN 100,000 OF CUSTOMERS' CREDIT CARD INFORMATION * SEARS HOLDINGS SAYS AS SOON AS CO WAS NOTIFIED, CO LAUNCHED THOROUGH INVESTIGATION WITH FEDERAL AUTHORITIES, BANKING PARTNERS, AND IT SECURITY FIRMS * SEARS HOLDINGS SAYS CREDIT CARD INFO FOR CERTAIN CUSTOMERS WHO TRANSACTED ONLINE BETWEEN SEPT 27, 2017 AND OCT 12, 2017 MAY HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED * SEARS HOLDINGS SAYS NO EVIDENCE THAT STORES WERE COMPROMISED OR THAT ANY INTERNAL SEARS SYSTEMS WERE ACCESSED BY THOSE RESPONSIBLE Source text : bit.
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Other stores, like J.C. Penney and Sears, are closing stores to cut losses in unprofitable locations, and just today, Sears announced it might be pursuing bankruptcy.
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The bid would preserve 425 Sears stores and up to 50,000 jobs across the United States, according to a letter delivered to Sears on Dec. 28.
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Sears estimated "less than 100,000 of our customers' credit card information" was impacted, and that Sears-branded credit cards had not been affected by the breach.
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Sears' vendors had previously benefited from support from Sears Chief Executive Eddie Lampert, who owns almost half of the company's shares and is its largest lender.
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Its competitors, like Walmart and Target, are bigger and better funded than Sears, allowing them to make investments in technology and stores that Sears cannot match.
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A key unresolved aspect of Sears' negotiations with lenders involves setting deadlines for Sears to achieve specific business goals while under bankruptcy protections, the sources said.
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Sears Holdings — Sears is evaluating bids for some of its real estate assets, and the retailer also said it expects to report a first-quarter profit.
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The Times reported a New York historical society hosted an exhibit on Sears homes and the blog Sears Modern Homes is devoted to spotting the structures.
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The announced closures and needed financing show that the Sears brand continues to struggle to win back shoppers, despite Sears Holdings filing for bankruptcy and restructuring.
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A spokesman for ESL defended all the deals with Sears, saying that Lampert did everything he could to help Sears stem losses and return to profitability.
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Lampert was the majority shareholder of Kmart and a major investor in Sears when he brought the two companies together to form Sears Holdings in 2005.
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Sears Holdings CEO Eddie Lampert admits his retail empire isn't what he imagined it would become when he brought Sears and Kmart together 13 years ago.
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Those initiatives include selling off in-house brands, seeking loans from Sears' CEO, Eddie Lampert, and recently teaming up with Amazon to market Sears' Kenmore appliances.
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Sears Holdings, Gymboree, The Limited and hhgregg are also at the top of that list, with Sears being the only name that hasn't yet gone bankrupt.
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Earlier in the day Friday, Sears announced plans to close an additional 37 Kmart stores and 43 Sears stores, another sign the company's performance is fading.
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Under his tenure as CEO, from 22015 to 22000, Sears closed more than 22010 stores, laid off more than 50,000 workers and discontinued Sears' famous catalog.
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Sears is looking for ways to grow sales and get back to profitability, as traffic to its Sears and Kmart stores has tanked in recent years.
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Critics, including former Sears executives and employees, said the money would have been better spent improving Sears and Kmart stores and developing a better digital strategy.
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Sears said it will provide customers who purchase any brand of tire on Amazon, including the Sears DieHard brand and full-service tire installation and balancing.
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Check out which companies are making headlines before the bell: Sears Holdings — The company announced Thursday it is closing 64 Kmart stores and 39 Sears establishments.
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Why Sears might still fail Sears' problems go back decades, and they aren't washed away by a healthier balance sheet and a smaller footprint of stores.
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Sears disputed Mr. Martinez's recollections, saying it was Mr. Martinez who requested the meeting, and denied that Mr. Lampert had made the comment about buying Sears.
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Sears Holdings (SHLD), the parent company of Sears and Kmart stores, told its employees that it will be closing more than 100 additional stores this year.
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The proceeds from the sale of the notes will help fund an account for Sears designated for expenses that could eventually help Sears stay in business.
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Sears Holdings, the company that's been in the longest decline of them all, will shed 150 stores (both Kmart and Sears), most in the next few months.
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Sears Holdings claims that during the years Lampert ran Sears, he made deals to loan the company money, only to strip it of its most valuable assets.
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But the cultures of Sears and Kmart employees were different, as were its shoppers — cross-selling Sears' appliances and Kmart's apparel proved less successful than originally planned.
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Sears told its employees earlier this week that 80 Sears and Kmart locations across the U.S. will shut by March, with liquidation sales beginning in early January.
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Already, some 29453 percent of Sears' leased Kmart stores come up for renewal in less than five years, as do nearly half of its leased Sears stores.
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This is the second time Sears has closed a chunk of the 235 Sears- and Kmart-branded stores that it sold off to Seritage in July 2015.
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Lampert, a hedge fund manager who took control of Sears in 783, has made a $4.4 billion offer to acquire Sears and keep its 400 stores operating.
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In raising "going concern" doubts, Sears Canada followed its U.S. counterpart Sears Holdings Corp, which warned in March about its ability to continue as a going concern.
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The program offers drivers points redeemable for products at Sears, Kmart and Lands' End, as well as discounts on vehicle maintenance and repairs at Sears Auto Centers.
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Sears' unsecured creditors took to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in White Plains on Monday to protest Lampert's bid for Sears.
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Sears Chairman Eddie Lampert made a $4.6 billion offer to buy the U.S. retailer earlier this month, which called for about 500 Sears stores to remain open.
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"The Sears at Six Corners was the shopping district's anchor business since it first opened to large crowds on October 20, 1938," Sears said in a statement.
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More recently, in September 2019, Sears closed 26 Sears and Kmart stores, adding to a list of hundreds, and laid off 250 employees at its corporate headquarters.
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Out of the company's roughly 570 full-line Sears-branded stores, Sears has reconfigured or trimmed the size of nine this year, a spokesperson confirmed to CNBC.
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Some Sears creditors, including landlords and vendors, believe shutting down the company is the best way to retrieve the greatest portion of the money Sears owes them.
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Eddie Lampert, the Sears chairman and its largest creditor, met a deadline imposed by the company for potential buyers of hundreds of stores and other Sears assets.
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Sears, once the world&aposs largest retailer, anchored hundreds of shopping malls 10 years ago with more than 3,500 US stores under its Sears and Kmart banners.
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Sears said the ongoing closure of unprofitable stores (under both the Sears and Kmart banners) has "resulted in meaningful improvement" in the department store chain's overall performance.
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Sears Holdings – The retailer lost $2106 per share for the second quarter, better than the $2107.44-per-share loss expected by the single analyst who covers Sears.
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During that time, Sears cut the number of its U.S. stores by nearly a third, reduced holdings in Sears Canada, and spun off the Lands' End clothing chain.
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The fund Tuesday afternoon swooped in to help pay Sears' junior debt-in-possession financing, a surprising development in bankruptcy court that shocked even some of Sears' lenders.
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Sears' chairman, Eddie Lampert, earlier this month unveiled his $4.6 billion proposal to save Sears by buying the company out of bankruptcy through his hedge fund, ESL Investments.
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"We believe that we can realize significant growth by further expanding the presence of these brands outside of Sears and Kmart," Sears said in a statement on Thursday.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sent a letter to Sears' former Chairman and CEO Eddie Lampert lambasting him for efforts to avoid repaying Sears for $43 million in severance fees.
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Our thought bubble: Look at this brief timeline of Sears in the 21st century... Lampert's hedge fund, ESL Investments, bought bankrupt Kmart in 2003 to merge with Sears.
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To cover that shortfall, he is requesting approval from the bankruptcy court judge for "New Sears" to not reimburse "Old Sears" for its severance costs, as originally agreed.
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The lawsuit was brought on behalf of Sears and against Lampert, other Sears directors and Seritage Growth Properties , the real estate investment trust established to acquire the stores.
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The buyer could be Sears' Chairman Eddie Lampert, whose hedge fund ESL Investments is already in discussions with Sears about a potential deal, according to the court documents.
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"(The proposal) is the best path forward for Sears, its associates and the many communities across the United States touched by Sears and Kmart stores," the statement added.
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Sears and Kmart (under Sears Holdings), J.C. Penney, hhgregg, GameStop and Staples are just a handful of companies trimming down their store portfolios amid an evolving retail landscape.
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Sears Holdings is closing 66 more stores in its drive to bring its Sears and Kmart stores back to profitability, a source close to the chain said Tuesday.
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He enjoyed fees from all the lending to Sears, and he'll recoup more money in any restructuring, even if Sears has to sell off inventory to do it.
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According to Munjal, Sears wouldn't count out opening other types of concept stores in the future, for example one dedicated to Kenmore or the Sears Home Services business.
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He had his eyes set then on being "the next Warren Buffett, " and Sears Holdings was supposed to be his Berkshire Hathaway, says one former top Sears executive.
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Richard Sears, a former railroad station agent, started selling watches as a side business in North Redwood, Minnesota in 1886 before moving to Chicago and incorporating Sears Roebuck.
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The first Sears Wish Book was known as the Sears Christmas Book catalog when it was rolled out in 1933, right in the midst of the Great Depression.
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It's true that the retail industry has seen better days as shoppers are increasingly turning to online shopping — but Sears has problems of its own: Sears lost $8.2.
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Innovel, which has serviced Costco since 2015, was previously owned by Sears-operator Transform Holdco LLC and will continue to serve Sears and its existing third-party customers.
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Innovel, which has serviced Costco since 2015, was previously owned by Sears-operator Transform Holdco LLC and will continue to serve Sears and its existing third-party customers.
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Any deal involving Sears and Mr. Lampert is complicated by his dual roles running both the retailer and the hedge fund, which is also a major Sears lender.
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According to the company, the first purchase made with a Discover Card was on September 17, 1985, by a Sears employee at a Sears store in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Whirlpool, which had started in business more than a century ago selling its appliances at Sears, pulled its various brands out of Sears and Kmart stores last year.
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They have said there may be claims against Sears for deals done under Lampert's tenure as CEO and its largest shareholder, which include Sears' spinoff of Lands' End in 2014 and transactions with Seritage Growth Properties, a real estate investment trust Lampert created through some Sears' properties a year later.
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Either of those options benefit Macy's, J.C. Penney and Dillard's, which have a "significant number of overlapping locations" with Sears and Bon-Ton, a Sears competitor that recently liquidated.
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Sears Holdings plans to shutter 142 Kmart and Sears stores by the end of the year and begin liquidation sales shortly as it tries to emerge from bankruptcy court.
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The same day the post was published, Sears filed a lawsuit against One World in Illinois courts, claiming that the tool vendor threatened to cancel its contract with Sears.
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Delta Air Lines, Sears Holdings – Delta and Sears say some of their customer payment information may have been affected by a cybersecurity breach at software firm [ 23]7.ai.
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CHICAGO, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Sears Holdings Corp said on Thursday it was shuttering 103 unprofitable Kmart and Sears stores as it continues to assess the viability of its operations.
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Half of this floor was devoted to Kmart, which is owned by Transform Holdco — the company formed to acquire Sears Holding's asset, and the same parent company as Sears.
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Half of this floor housed a Kmart store, which is owned by Transform Holdco — the company formed to acquire Sears Holding's assets, and the same parent company as Sears.
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Sears CEO Eddie Lampert's hedge fund, ESL Investments, has made a proposal to buy Kenmore, Sears' home improvement business, its PartsDirect division and some of the chain's real estate.
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The topic of Sears' fate specifically didn't come up on Friday's conference call, other than Simon saying the company was on its 200th unsecured creditors committee with Sears, now.
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Also on Tuesday, Sears said it added restructuring expert Alan Carr to its board — about a year after longtime Sears investor Bruce Berkowitz stepped down from his board seat.
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After Sears filed for bankruptcy last October and closed a number of its stores, investors expected J.C. Penney would benefit, thinking former Sears shoppers would head to Penney instead.
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Memento is urging Sears to form a board to look after shareholders, to temporarily suspend short-selling in Sears' stock, and to evaluate strategic alternatives that include going private.
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Because Lampert loaned Sears the money when he was chairman and CEO, they say, the terms of those loans unduly benefited Lampert and his hedge fund rather than Sears.
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Sears entered Canada in 1952 through a mail-order catalog business known as Simpsons-Sears, a joint venture with the Robert Simpson Company, a now-defunct Toronto department store.
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After Sears was purchased for a whopping $11 billion, both companies became subsidiaries of the newly formed Sears Holdings Corporation, with hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert as its chairman.
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Whirlpool, (WHR) which had started in business more than a century ago selling its appliances at Sears, pulled its various brands out of Sears and Kmart stores last year.
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Here's the list by state: Alabama Sears: 1001 Rainbow Dr., Gadsden Arizona Sears: 4103 Chandler Village Dr., Chandler 7611 W Thomas Rd., Phoenix-Desert Sky 6515 E Southern Ave.
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Sears' decimated dominance Founded in 1893, Sears grew to become most important retailer and the largest private sector employer in the United States in middle of the 20th century.
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Sears named Berkowitz to its board in February 2016, expanding the number of directors to 10, after Berkowitz said he wanted an active role in returning Sears to profitability.
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What happens if Sears goes bankrupt If Sears does file for bankruptcy, it could try to stay in business, using the court process to shed debt and unaffordable leases.
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Monday's hearing in White Plains, New York, kicked off with Sears' investment banker, Brandon Aebersold of Lazard, and Sears director Bill Transier testifying about sale negotiations and Lampert's plans.
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Although many retail experts blame Lampert for driving Sears into the ground, his secured creditor status means he won't lose his personal fortune after Sears' bankruptcy process is complete.
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Those deals include Sears' spinoff of Lands' End in 2014 and transactions with Seritage Growth Properties, a real estate investment trust Lampert created through some Sears properties a year later.
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The odds are stacked against billionaire investor Eddie Lampert and his $5 billion-plus effort to resurrect Sears from bankruptcy, former Sears Chairman and CEO Alan Lacy told CNBC Thursday.
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The announcement of Sears' potential demise is a blow to Lampert, a hedge fund investor who took control of Sears after merging it with Kmart, which he controlled, in 2004.
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In November, Bruce Berkowitz — the founder or Fairholme Capital Management and a member of Sears' board — said his firm owned 57 percent of Sears' senior unsecured notes due in 2019.
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In a situation as thorny as Sears', however, it is possible the unsecured creditors believe they can squeeze more out of Sears through litigation than through a sale to Lampert.
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"Altogether, Lampert caused more than $2 billion of assets to be transferred to himself and Sears' other shareholders and beyond the reach of Sears' creditors," the lawsuit alleged on Thursday.
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The deals include Sears' spinoff of Lands' End in 2014 and transactions with Seritage Growth Properties, a real estate investment trust Lampert created through some Sears' properties a year later.
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Those deals include Sears' spinoff of Lands' End in 2014 and transactions with Seritage Growth Properties, a real estate investment trust Lampert created through some Sears' properties a year later.
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Read: It was once the biggest retailer in the US. 125 years later, Sears looks a lot different CLARIFICATION: Sears has provided locations for 63 of the newly planned closures.
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Some of Sears vendors, meanwhile, have been seen as looking to jump ship and terminate deals with the retailer as rumors of a looming Sears bankruptcy filing continue to swirl.
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Eddie Lampert, Sears' chairman and its largest creditor, made a last-minute $4.4 billion bid Friday for 425 stores and other Sears' assets, potentially saving as many as 50,000 jobs.
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Sears Holdings is planning to shutter 20 more Sears stores in the U.S., in addition to the more than 200 closures that have already been announced, Business Insider reported Thursday.
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At the insistence of the PBGC, the Sears pension plans had been promised a share of the royalties that Sears pays to a subsidiary for its Kenmore and DieHard brands.
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On Friday, the tradition came to a symbolic end when a judge approved a decision to liquidate the assets of Sears Canada, successor to Simpsons-Sears and acquirer of Eaton's.
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Sears became the Amazon of its day because its co-founder Richard Warren Sears harnessed two great networks to serve his enterprise — the railroads and the United States Postal Service.
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"This is a play to wring the last drop of value from Sears until there is nothing left," said Mark A. Cohen, a former chief executive of Sears in Canada.
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It also attributed some of the company's problems to its ongoing court battle with Sears Holdings, the still-bankrupt remnant of the company that used to own Sears and Kmart.
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The new list of unprofitable locations released by Sears this week comes in addition to the more than 100 Sears and Kmart locations that have already gone dark this year.
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" Moving forward, Lampert said Sears could "materially improve the financial strength and operating focus of Sears Holdings and provide meaningful reassurance of our viability to our vendors and business partners.
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Sears has said it's transitioning toward a "less asset-intensive" business, as it closes more underperforming stores and looks to monetize some of its other holdings, including Sears Home Services.
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In April it opened a new store called Sears Home & Life, which sells only home goods like appliances and mattresses and is a fraction the size of a typical Sears.
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Ms. Sietz, 30, is a taxonomist for Sears Holdings Corporation in Chicago, where she works on the classification and organization of products in the digital marketplace for Sears and Kmart.com.
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Only two major structures on the site remain vacant: the five-story original Sears headquarters and the 10-story former headquarters of Allstate, the insurance company Sears founded in 1931.
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Long history of deals with Sears Andrew Dietderich, an attorney representing Sears creditor Fairholme Capital Management, said the company's many deals over the years resulted in a slow-motion bankruptcy.
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Sears has contributed over $4 billion to its pension over the last decade, but this could be the PBGC's last chance to try to cover the shortfall it faces from Sears.
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At the time Sears and Kmart merged, Sears was looking for more products to sell in its stores to counterbalance the infrequency with which people bought its hallmark appliances like dishwashers.
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It further alleges that Seritage's deal with Sears to give it ownership of 266 of Sears' best retail stores was not negotiated and undervalued the properties by at least $649 million.
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Transform alleges Sears had not delivered the prepaid inventory it promised, inflated the amount that Transform owes Sears, did not hand over all of its Illinois headquarters, along with other complaints.
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Sears said the new Colorado store will carry the same assortment of appliances as in a typical Sears department store, including the top 10 brands of refrigerators, dishwashers and other products.
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When it finally began, Ray Schrock, the Weil lawyer representing Sears, had an announcement: "We have what we believe is some very good news for Sears and its stakeholders," he said.
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Earlier this year, Sears announced a round of more than 100 store closures under both the Sears and Kmart banners, all expected to be completed by the end of this month.
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Houses From 2000 until the 21971s, Sears sold materials and assembly instructions for tens of thousands of houses — meant for humans, not for dolls (though Sears sold plenty of those, too).
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Sears One of the biggest believers in the embattled retailer's turnaround efforts has stepped down from the board, though Sears said that it wasn't because of disagreement with the company's management.
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The program allows customers to earn points, for purchases not only at Sears but at partnering businesses including Burger King, Under Armour and Uber, that can be redeemed for Sears merchandise.
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Sears said Thursday it will shutter an additional 103 stores — 64 Kmart stores and 39 Sears, while Macy's identified 11 stores that would go dark under a prior store closure plan.
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Sears and Black & Decker declined to comment to CNBC.
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Sears and Black & Decker declined to comment to CNBC.
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More from Lampert's letter to the Sears board: Bottom line via Wall Street Journal: "The moves are an effort by Lampert to inject Sears with cash and stave off a bankruptcy filing, while at the same time allowing the hived-off businesses to grow by distributing their products and services beyond Sears and sister chain Kmart... Some critics, however, have argued that the strategy further weakens Sears by giving shoppers less reason to visit the retailer."
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Founded by railroad station agent Richard Sears in 1886, Sears reshaped American consumerism by drawing shoppers into malls, which, in turn, contributed to the suburbanization of the US after World War II. But following the launch of big-box retailers like Walmart and online juggernauts like Amazon, Sears lost its price and convenience advantage.
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SEARS-FINANCING-EXCLUSIVE Sears says it has secured a $250 million lifeline, will close 83 stores NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sears told Reuters on Thursday it had won a $250 million lifeline from lenders that include billionaire owner Eddie Lampert, and will close additional stores, as mounting losses strain the beleaguered U.S. department store chain's finances.
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Things seemed promising for parent company Transformco (previously Sears Holdings), which owns both Sears department stores and Kmart, after chairman Eddie Lampert's ESL Investments fund helped bring the dying retailer out of bankruptcy earlier this year — the $5.2 billion deal was expected to keep 425 Sears and Kmart locations operating, along with 727.23,000 jobs.
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ESL could end up bidding on up to 500 Sears stores, or about 100 more than the 400 healthier stores Sears initially identified when filing for bankruptcy, one of the sources said.
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Sears is competing with well capitalized competitors like Walmart and Target, which have beaten Sears over the years by pouring money into private-label brands, while also offering goods at affordable prices.
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Appliance maker Whirlpool issued a statement following the news saying the Sears bankruptcy will have a limited impact on its finances, with only one percent of its accounts receivable related to Sears.
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When Sears Holdings CEO Eddie Lampert merged Sears and Kmart in 2005, he believed that combining two fading giants would create a fortified competitor to stand up against new rivals like Walmart.
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In later testimony, Sears board member Transier acknowledged Sears could close an average of three stores a month this year and sell $600 million in real estate over the next three years.
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Three years ago, Sears sold about 235 stores to Seritage Growth Properties, a spinoff company that was created to convert Sears and Kmart locations into more valuable uses like offices and restaurants.
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" In a separate note to shareholders following the report, Sears' Lampert wrote: "Because of Sears and Kmart's longstanding history and cultural impact, we are targeted for criticism when our results are poor.
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After filing for bankruptcy, Sears is now referred to as "Transform Holdco," until it announces a new name for the company, and it has 220 Sears and 205 Kmart stores remaining open.
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When Sears first filed for bankruptcy, it said that it anticipated the loan would come from ESL, but creditors have objected to a the series of insider deals between Sears and Lampert.
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Sears' creditors committee, which represents some of those vendors and various mall landlords, wants the bankruptcy court to pull the plug on Sears and start the process of shutting down the company.
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Stephan Zoll, president of Sears' online operations, is also stepping down from the company, effective June 15, Sears said Tuesday in a separate 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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The creditors committee, a group that speaks for many of the companies and people owed money by Sears, had already been urging the court to start the process of shutting down Sears.
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Sears, which has posted a quarterly profit just once in the last four years, said in April it would close 68 Kmart discount stores and 10 Sears department stores to cut costs.
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Sears chairman Eddie Lampert reached an 20103th-hour agreement Tuesday to make changes to his hedge fund's bid to buy the company's operating assets and keep 425 Sears and Kmart stores open.
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Attorneys for Sears said they had reached an acceptable agreement with a hedge fund controlled by Eddie Lampert, the chairman and former CEO of Sears, after a series of last-minute negotiations.
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But a few months later, 13 Sears vendors joined a larger group of companies pushing Sears to liquidate so the vendors can claim the money they're owed, Business Insider's Bethany Biron reported.
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Some might go as far as likening Penney's troubles to where Sears was a few years back, though Sears had seen more consecutive sales declines and had a more troubled balance sheet.
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The deal by Sears' chairman would keep about 425 Sears and Kmart stores open for business — 260 or so fewer than the retailer had when it filed for bankruptcy on October 15.
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Sears Holdings CEO Eddie Lampert's hedge fund, ESL, said Tuesday it's received "numerous inbound inquiries from potential partners" since it made an offer last month to buy Kenmore and other Sears assets.
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With only about 10 percent of Craftsman-branded products sold outside of Sears' retail channels, the deal will give Stanley B&D the right to expand the brand in non-Sears channels.
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To start the year and building on previous announcements, Sears will be closing 64 Kmart stores and 39 Sears stores, all of which are expected to shut between early March and April.
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Just last week Lampert said ESL Partners, along with Fairholme Capital, is Sears Canada, which was spun off from Sears Holdings in 2012, is currently looking to restructure itself under bankruptcy protection.
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Craftsman had been an iconic Sears brand before Stanley paid about $900 million for it in March 2017, while giving Sears what it called a "limited" license to sell some Craftsman products.
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Lampert's lack of experience in the retail business was the biggest reason Sears' fortunes took a turn for the worse, said Chad Brand, president of Peridot Capital Management, which holds Sears bonds.
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Seritage, a real estate investment trust spun off from Sears Holdings roughly three years ago, said late Tuesday it plans to use the funds to forge ahead with plans to redevelop the properties in its portfolio — nearly 250 of them — to either replace locations once occupied by Sears or move Sears into smaller locations at the mall.
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The PBGC move mirrors its own successful tactic last year with Sears, when it won future cash payments from the company in exchange for agreeing to the sale of Sears' Craftsman tool line.
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Lampert had pledged to restore Sears to its glory days, when it owned the Sears Tower in Chicago, then the world's tallest building, and companies that included a radio station and Allstate insurance.
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The restructuring committee advising Sears is not confident the bankruptcy judge will allow Lampert to use a credit bid without addressing an ongoing investigation about Sears' transactions under Lampert's management, people have said.
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Sears' fate is still uncertain heading into 2019, as the company's chairman, Eddie Lampert, is in the process of trying to buy back Sears' remaining stores and prevent them from going dark altogether.
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The restructuring committee advising Sears is not confident the bankruptcy judge will allow Lampert to use a credit bid without addressing a pending investigation about Sears transactions under Lampert's ownership, the people said.
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The restructuring committee advising Sears is not confident the bankruptcy judge will allow Lampert to use a credit bid without addressing an ongoing investigation of Sears' transactions under Lampert's management, people have said.
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"This loan facility will provide Sears Holdings with additional financial flexibility and support our operations as we meet all of our financial obligations," Jason Hollar, Sears' chief financial officer, said in a statement.
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Other defendants include Bruce Berkowitz and his Fairholme Capital Management, which had been a large Sears shareholder, and Seritage Growth Properties, which housed 266 of Sears' more profitable stores after being spun off.
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Last year, [24]7 suffered a malware attack from September 27th to October 5th, but the company only informed Sears and Delta in mid-March this year about the breach, according to Sears.
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In cross-examinations of Sears' financial advisor, Lazard's Brandon Aebersold, and board member William Transier, the unsecured creditors' legal counsel dug into the uncertainty that persists around Sears' ability to grant continued employment.
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An agreement between the company and Sears was set to expire at the end of April, the Tribune reported, and both Ideal and Sears were believed to have been discussing extending their partnership.
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She is the daughter of Mary Seehafer Sears and David L. Sears of Parsippany, N.J. The groom, 33, is a founder and brand director of Craighill, a New York-based product design company.
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ESL Investments, the hedge fund led by Sears Holdings CEO Eddie Lampert, is proposing to buy the Kenmore brand, Sears' Home Improvement business, its PartsDirect division and some of the chain's real estate.
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"Sears Holdings continues to actively manage our real estate portfolio to identify additional opportunities for reconfiguration and reduction of capital obligations," Sears spokesman Howard Riefs said in a statement following the Seritage filing.
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Earlier on Thursday, Sears Canada, which was spun off from Sears in 2012, announced it would be closing a quarter of its stores, or 59 locations, as part of a court-supervised restructuring.
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Sears, for example, has already put the whole store on sale, offering "first-of-their-kind" discounts ranging from 10 to 50 percent at Sears stores, and 10 to 40 percent at Kmart.
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Below is the ratio of Sears' accounts payable (what it owes its suppliers) compared with its inventory (the merchandise it has in store), taken from Sears' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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But Sears, led by Lampert, argues the company still has a loyal base of shoppers — buoyed by its Shop Your Way membership platform — who come to Sears and Kmart stores for their convenience.
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It's a cautionary tale for those hoping that Sears Holdings, the owner of Sears and Kmart, will be able to survive long term by shedding debt and closing stores in its current bankruptcy.
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Now, as Sears enters its 126th holiday shopping season, the company is struggling to stay afloat and some parts of the country are devoid of Sears and Kmart stores for hundreds of miles.
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He's spent a decade shrinking Sears (and Kmart, which is part of the parent company, Sears Holdings) and then blamed the economy, the weather, Walmart, Amazon and everything else when his plan foundered.
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That's another way to cut costs: Fewer stores, and more small stores, means less inventory, allowing Sears to fill stores with desirable products — one of the key customer draws that Sears has lacked.
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" His post, title "Just The Facts — Sears Canada," explained that dividends paid to Sears Canada shareholders in 2012 and 2013 were largely from asset sales, when the company had "virtually no funded debt.
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As Sears Holdings shutters more of its department stores under the Sears and Kmart banners, three retailers are poised to gain the most of those lost sales, according to UBS analyst Michael Lasser.
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Ahead of the filing, Sears chairman and primary shareholder Eddie Lampert had proposed a plan to sell assets and renegotiate debt down to $1.2 billion, which he argued was all Sears could afford.
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This had been a move Sears Holdings employed two years ago when it spun off some of its most profitable Sears and Kmart properties into Seritage Growth Properties to raise much-needed cash.
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Ray Schrock, an attorney for Sears, told the court that liquidating Sears right away would destroy value, and potentially lead to the failure of profitable businesses, such as the retailer's home services division.
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Sears Canada, much like Sears Holdings - now its fourth-largest shareholder - has struggled for years to remain relevant to shoppers who have switched to stores that keep up with fast-changing fashion trends.
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As Sears blew through its dwindling cash reserves, Lampert's hedge fund made loans to the company money that were backed by the company's assets, including including real estate balances on Sears credit cards.
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Sears Canada, much like Sears Holdings, now its fourth-largest shareholder, has struggled for years to remain relevant to shoppers who have switched to stores that keep up with fast-changing fashion trends.
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Another point of contention in previous negotiations between Lampert and Sears centered on whether Lampert's bid fully addressed the bankruptcy costs that Sears has racked up, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Sears Holding reported a $2.2 billion loss for last year.
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The stakes are high, given that Sears faces a Dec.
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No severance has been put 'at risk' by New Sears.
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And, earlier in October, Sears borrowed $100 million from ESL.
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He rarely comes to Sears, often only on Black Friday.
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Since Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Oct.
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Sears called up the bankruptcy judge to share the news.
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Neither Sears nor ESL are out of the woods yet.
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Without proper attention, Sears lost relevancy and its customers' loyalty.
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ESL may face other competition in its bid for Sears.
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Doing so would save Kmart, Sears and roughly 50,000 jobs.
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Sales have plunged 60% since 2010, Sears' last profitable year.
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Sears would not comment on specific reasons for the closings.
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Prior to its bankruptcy, Sears had tried to sell assets.
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Mark Cohen, former CEO of Sears Canada, backed the view.
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Merchandise inventory at Sears was $2.7 billion as of Aug.
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Dillard's, Ascena, and Sears also contributed to the ETF's gains.
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Sears and Alan Cohen, chairman of Abacus, declined to comment.
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Approving Lampert's offer would have helped Sears make its payment.
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Sears has not yet finalized a buyer for the business.
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Sears has attributed this to store closures and improved productivity.
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"Sears is not necessarily a retailer that [millennials] think of."
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Sears Holdings stock dropped about 1 percent after the bell.
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Sears also completed the sale of its Craftsman brand to .
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Sears and ESL both declined to comment on the financing.
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Fitch has downgraded the followings ratings: Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp.
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Sears did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The company, whose largest shareholder is Sears Holdings Corp SHLD.
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Soltau has served in senior level positions at Sears SHLD.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The future of Sears Holdings Corp (SHLDQ.
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Concerns that Sears is headed toward bankruptcy have been reignited.
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Sears revenue fell 213.2 percent last year, to $22018 billion.
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Sears will face its first meaningful debt maturities in 2018.
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Sears' shares were up 10 percent at $4.56 on Thursday.
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Sears has said that it does not comment on shareholders.
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Sears has tried to sell those brands and businesses before.
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The closures involve 49 Kmart locations and 17 Sears stores.
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Jennie Davis Sears and Zachary West Fried were married Nov.
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Far from ignoring the internet, Sears actually got there first.
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Sears was once one of the biggest retailers in America.
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Sears had controlled the iconic tool name for 90 years.
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But not everyone thinks Penney will rise if Sears falls.
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Lampert's is the only bid designed to keep Sears open.
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Sears plans to close at least 122 stores by January.
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Sears — once the world's largest retailer — was heading toward bankruptcy.
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Among struggling retailers, it doesn't get much worse than Sears.
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Real estate landlords are anxious about Sears' stores going dark.
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Sears struck a deal with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
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Sears employed 68,000 people at the time of its Oct.
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Penney especially wants to avoid the fate of bankrupted Sears.
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In exchange, Sears must pay $407 million to the plan.
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Sears Holdings has faced struggles of its own of late.
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There will also be a digital version available on Sears.
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Shares for both companies are up since Sears' bankrutpcy filing.
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Sears hasn't yet said when those sales will take place.
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In the latest quarter, Sears' revenue fell nearly 28 percent.
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It is unclear whether Sears' lenders will agree to it.
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As the 2017 holiday season nears, Sears will need cash.
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Sears' shares were down 1.5 percent in premarket trading Tuesday.
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Shares of troubled Sears were up 1.1 percent at $10.89.
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The new bid, which Sears will consider during a Jan.
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Sears employed about 68,000 people when it filed for bankruptcy.
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The Sears board has said it is reviewing his proposal.
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Sears, in a big push, is taking the month to .
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A Sears spokesman and a Cyrus spokeswoman declined to comment.
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Sears Holdings had more than 300,000 employees at that time.
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In 2005, Sears had 2 percent of all retail sales.
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As many of these spinoffs flourished, Sears slid toward insolvency.
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By the 1990s, Sears was struggling to find its place.
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Sears lacked Walmart's economies of scale and Amazon's digital reach.
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His mother, the former Jean Malcolm, was a Sears model.
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But what was shopping like in rural areas before Sears?
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And it's why the Sears catalog was just so radical.
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Sears today is nothing like the company many retirees remember.
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In 1961, Sears overrode its unwritten policy and hired him.
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Innovel will continue to work with Sears after the sale.
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Another key source of financial support comes from Sears itself.
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There's no reason to think Sears would fare any differently.
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A Sears bankruptcy filing could be good for some landlords.
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"[Harwick] was my therapist," model Emily Sears tweeted on Sunday.
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First she sweats the onions, then she sears the meat.
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Sears has lost 98% of its market capitalization since 2007.
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Seritage, which mostly holds Sears property, would be significantly affected.
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In return, Sears said it paid the PBGC $32 million.
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He sets foot inside Sears headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Ill.
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A representative for Sears declined Business Insider's request for comment.
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It has been going on for several years (remember Sears?).
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Steve Mnuchin, 53, has been on the Sears Holding Corp.
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Other stores in the mall, including a Sears, are closing.
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A representative from Sears declined to comment on this story.
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Com * Sears Holdings Corp - terms of deal were not disclosed.
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The company has been busy shedding its exposure to Sears.
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Seritage tried to put a positive spin on Sears' bankruptcy.
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She has also held positions at Shopko, Sears, and Kohl's.
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A year ago, that charge was $381 million for Sears.
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Sears lost $607 million during the same period in 2016.
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Sears suffered too, but the decline was steeper at Kmart.
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Another key area of Sears' business is its real estate.
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Another focus for Sears has been greater integration with technology.
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The absentee CEO Lampert is not well liked at Sears.
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A Sears Canada representative was not immediately available for comment.
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Fairholme said the firm remains a significant investor in Sears.
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That would greatly narrow Sears' options to make a payment.
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Sears, Roebuck, & Co. could practically touch the sky in 1969.
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Other clients followed, including Kraft Foods and Sears, Roebuck & Company.
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Sears has been closing unprofitable stores to stop the bleeding.
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Lampert arranged Sears' merger with discount chain Kmart in 2005.
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The houses were descendants of the old Sears Craftsman homes.
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Sears, which filed for bankruptcy in October, has since announced several rounds of store closures that bring store footprint closer to 400 — a sign of Sears' doubt in the viability of Lampert's original offer.
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Sears' bankruptcy lawyers, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, plan to charge Sears their customary hourly rates of $1,075 to $1,600 for work done by its partners and counsel, according to documents filed with the bankruptcy court.
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Whirlpool said Sears' bankruptcy will have a limited impact on its business, while Electrolux said it did not assess a need for material one-time costs as an immediate consequence of Sears' debt restructuring.
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Check out which companies are making headlines before the bell: Sears Holdings — Sears reported an adjusted loss of $3.53 per share for its latest quarter, smaller than the loss of $3.20 expected by analysts.
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"If Sears liquidates, it'd be very, very sad for all of us," said longtime Sears vendor Joe Shamie, CEO of furniture vendor Delta Children, which lost millions after Toys 'R' Us filed for bankruptcy.
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The CEO mentioned one of Sears' vendors that has been particularly troublesome of late: One World, a China-based subsidiary of Techtronic Industries that makes various power tools for Sears under the Craftsman brand.
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Many of the latest closures come in the form of Seritage, a real estate investment trust spun off from Sears in 2015, exercising a right to terminate Sears' leases and take back those boxes.
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Sears' location at the Mall of America, a five-million-square-foot tourist destination that opened in 1992, was the only full-scale Sears store in Minnesota that wasn't already earmarked to shut down.
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Between 2006 and 503, Sears invested less than 1 percent of its revenue back into its stores because Lampert believed Sears should instead focus on online sales, causing many locations to fall into disrepair.
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Also on Thursday, Sears Canada, which was spun off from Sears Holdings in 2012, announced it would be closing a quarter of its stores, or 59 locations, as part of a court-supervised restructuring.
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The parent of Sears and Kmart has run no national TV ads since late November, compared to $8.4 million a year earlier for the Sears brand and $6.5 million for the company's Kmart division.
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Coming off a disappointing holiday season, Sears is looking for ways to drive sales and is considering further monetizing some of its other assets, including the Kenmore and DieHard brands, and Sears Home Services.
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Just last month, shortly after announcing additional store closings (so far this year, 155 Sears and Kmarts around the country have been shuttered) Sears announced a deal to sell its Kenmore appliances through Amazon.
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Sears Canada creditors are calling out Eddie Lampert, the erstwhile controlling shareholder of the bankrupt retailer and current chief executive of Sears Holdings, for receiving dividend payments as the Canadian business crumbled in 2017.
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A hedge fund owned by the chief executive of Sears, Edward Lampert, has offered to buy the company's Kenmore appliances brand for $400 million in cash, Sears said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday.
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"We are pleased to have reached a deal that would provide a path for Sears to emerge from the chapter 11 process," the restructuring committee of Sears' board of directors said in a statement.
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As its retail sales surpassed catalog sales, Sears became a fixture in malls, and the company developed now iconic brands like Kenmore, Craftsman, DieHard, and the already-established Lands' End, which Sears purchased in 2002.
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Sears Chairman Eddie Lampert, a billionaire who runs hedge fund ESL Investments Inc, is working "around the clock," with possible lenders to finance a bid to keep Sears in business, according to bankruptcy-court papers.
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A dismantled sign leans outside a Sears department store the day after it closed as part of multiple store closures by Sears Holdings Corp in the United States, in Nanuet, New York, on Jan. 7.
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Sears Holdings may have just filed for bankruptcy on Monday, but the company "was toast about a day after it closed" its merger with Kmart in 2005, according to former Sears Canada CEO Mark Cohen.
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Over the past two years alone, Mr. Lampert and ESL have extended Sears over $800 million in loans secured by Sears assets — nearly two-thirds as much as Sears's entire market capitalization of $673 billion.
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Sears was forced to sue two longtime manufacturers of its Craftsman tools brand earlier this year to keep them shipping merchandise to stores, even though the Craftsman brand was sold off by Sears months prior.
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The company will look for deals to expand the Sears Home Services business and the unit that houses the Kenmore appliance, Craftsman tools and DieHard (KCD) vehicle battery brands beyond its Sears and Kmart stores.
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Sears laid off 250 employees at its corporate headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, last week and will close another round of Sears and Kmart stores before the end of the year, Business Insider has learned.
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It said creditors who are owed money by Sears and whose debt is not backed by hard assets such as real estate or credit card balances, will pay for Sears' attempt to stay in business.
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Sears has already said it intends to close about 180 stores while its chairman, Eddie Lampert, a billionaire who runs hedge fund ESL Investments Inc, works on a potential bid to keep Sears in business.
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"I don't think it was inevitable that Sears would find itself in the position it is in today," said Arthur Martinez, who orchestrated a turnaround of Sears as its chief executive in the late 1990s.
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Sears is still testing new concepts, like stand-alone mattress stores and combined Sears and Kmart locations, but retail analysts say it will be hard for the company to bounce back from its dire situation.
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Sears Chairman Eddie Lampert, a billionaire who runs hedge fund ESL Investments Inc, is working "around the clock" with possible lenders to finance a bid to keep Sears in business, according to bankruptcy-court papers.
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Over the last two years alone, Mr. Lampert and ESL have extended Sears over $800 million in loans secured by Sears assets — nearly two-thirds as much as Sears's entire market capitalization of $1.2 billion.
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Sears retirees' pensions face their own funding shortfall of $1.5 billion.
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A U.S. bankruptcy court judge must approve any sale of Sears.
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They did so within the tighter timeframe that Sears now confronts.
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Sears will then have two business days to issue a response.
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Drain has so far shown a propensity to keeping Sears alive.
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Shares in Sears closed 6.8 percent higher on Wednesday at $11.24.
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Meanwhile, stores are closing, and Sears workers are losing their jobs.
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Sears filed for bankruptcy last October after years of store closures.
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As it stands now, Sears is contemplating having two such loans.
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Sears has also reported just two profitable quarters since April 2012.
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Sears raised nearly $10 billion in liquidity from 2012 to 2015.
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A hearing to finalize Sears' bankruptcy financing is scheduled for Nov.
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Sears shares were down 17.6 percent in premarket trading on Wednesday.
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Sears is borrowing more money from CEO Eddie Lampert's hedge fund.
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Should Lampert submit a bid, Sears' advisors would have until Jan.
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It also meant keeping Sears alive through complex investments from ESL.
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A Sears spokesman didn't immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment.
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Should Sears pivot to liquidation, the process would likely be swift.
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Lampert's smaller bid would buy a few other pieces of Sears.
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Home Depot isn't the only retailer coming for Sears' tool business.
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Cyrus Capital has emerged as a key party in Sears' bankruptcy.
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The item is currently listed "out of stock" on Sears' website.
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And it's those companies, including Amazon, that ultimately sped Sears' demise.
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Lampert's bid is the only one that would keep Sears alive.
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Then, in 1999, her husband lost his job at Sears Automotive.
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The fund said it does not have a stake in Sears.
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Go deeper: The next eight retailers at risk of Sears' fate
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In addition, department store chains such as Sears Holdings Corp SHLD.
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The belt-tightening has been in sharp contrast to Sears' legacy.
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In effect, Lampert liquidated Sears outside of a formal bankruptcy proceeding.
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Rounding out the bottom five: Wells Fargo, Sears, and Phillip Morris.
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One other suggested I attend an upcoming seminar hosted by Sears.
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Whirlpool shares were trading down 10 percent, while Sears rose marginally.
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A large debt payment is hanging over Sears' head next month.
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As medics continued to attend to Sears, play was indefinitely suspended.
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Mr Lampert insists that Sears will become leaner and profitable again.
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Sears filed for bankruptcy protection following a long run of losses.
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It's easy forget that Sears was young and bold once too.
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Sears explains:Everything in between, all bets are kind of off now.
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Sears' available liquidity at the end of July was $810 million.
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"Without a doubt, they are part of the problem," Sears said.
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Elizabeth Warren, angry former Sears' workers, as well as retail pundits.
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Buffett&aposs Berkshire Hathaway grants $21876B loan to Sears property owner.
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And Sears says it believes it can still turn things around.
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The accompanying Sears Auto stores are also expected to be shut.
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The Sears Tower is in Chicago, I told him, not here.
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Meanwhile, Sears hasn't reported positive cash flow from operations since 2010.
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LIQUIDITY Sears had total liquidity of $432 million as of Oct.
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In total, Sears has about 700 stores and roughly 90,000 employees.
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All that Sears once was may ultimately guide its corporate progeny.
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"You have no more time," he said, citing rising Sears expenses.
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There's a "find-it" center where customers can browse Sears' website.
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Sears' chances to avoid Toys "R" Us fate aren't looking great.
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Meantime, Sears is facing more disputes with its longtime Craftsman suppliers.
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In turn, Sears said it will push its own Kenmore nameplate.
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Whirlpool will also continue to manufacture some Kenmore appliances for Sears.
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Sears will provide eligible associates with severance compensation and transition assistance.
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Sears later took a stake in the appliance company in 1921.
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The news comes as Sears continues to shed its unprofitable stores.
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"Salmon have lived through lots of droughts," Sears told the Times.
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Bruce Berkowitz is leaving Sears Holdings' board of directors, effective Oct.
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Sears and Kmart are closing at least 121 stores by January.
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A new Sears can be profitable and competitive, he has said.
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Most its goods, logistics and advertising support came from Sears Holdings.
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Sears will list the additional nine locations in a forthcoming update.
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Sears had roughly $4.3 billion in funded debt as of Feb.
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Sears told a bankruptcy court it has interest from multiple parties.
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Sears said this reflected its "significantly reduced ... dependency on vendor financing."
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In exchange, Sears said it paid $238 million to the plan.
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Sears shares were recently down nearly 220 percent after the news.
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But Sears was certainly banking on its shoppers being into them.
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Hundreds of Sears stores have closed in the last few years.
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A spokesperson for Sears Holding declined to comment on the bid.
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Assets sales, for Sears, could be another source of operating cash.
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Sears Holdings is taking its relationship with Amazon one step further.
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Lampert said Sears is "well on track" to meet its goals.
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Lampert is Sears' biggest creditor, but he's not the only one.
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Shares of Sears Holdings, Nordstrom and Dillard's were also moving higher.
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Mnuchin served on the board of directors of Sears Holding Corp.
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Sears told the bankruptcy court it has interest from multiple parties.
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Earlier on Friday, Sears announced it was closing 80 more stores.
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Spokespeople for Sears and its chairman, Eddie Lampert, declined to comment.
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Sears has been in survival mode for more than a decade.
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"They hit us with a heavy haymaker," Yale's Justin Sears said.
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Reagan played a leading role in the firing of Mr. Sears.
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Patten was joined by his attorneys, Stuart Sears and Megan Petry.
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Sears had about $3 billion in borrowings as of Jan. 30.
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Fewer people shopping at malls meant fewer people shopping at Sears.
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He's proposing to personally buy Sears' last consequential piece — Kenmore appliances.
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Sears formed a special committee in May to explore the proposal.
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They blamed Lampert for the problems that led to Sears' downfall.
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Still, the initiatives could be too little too late for Sears.
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His amended offer would save about 2000,000 jobs, according to Sears.
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The closings consist of 2118 Sears stores and 214080 Kmart stores.
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The closings consist of 51 Sears stores and 45 Kmart stores.
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Stuart A. Sears, a lawyer representing Mr. Schiller, declined to comment.
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Sears denied the accusations but soon had other concerns to address.
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Sears Roebuck was, in many ways, an early version of Amazon.
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The market value of Lands' End now dwarfs that of Sears.
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"Lampert will make out," said Mr. Olbrysh, the retired Sears worker.
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Stanley Hreneczko, 91, started working at the Sears in Troy, Mich.
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He and his hedge fund played an unusual role at Sears.
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Here's how he made out on the various parts of Sears.
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In May, Sears had already ended mail-order sales of firearms.
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There were rumors that Sears was black, that Roebuck was black.
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Lampert stepped down as CEO when Sears filed for bankruptcy Oct.
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When I was younger, my family would take me to Sears.
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Sears, meanwhile, is closing stores and laying off hundreds of workers.
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Deals • Sears is reportedly near a deal to receive more financing.
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Knute Sears and Fred Eiden were Amazon's ninth and tenth employees.
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Sears, Bon-Ton and Barneys New York have all gone bankrupt.
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To disabuse anybody of this notion, take them to a Sears.
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Everyone knows Sears, which has been around for over 23 years.
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In addition, he has tried to refocus Sears onto the internet.
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One explanation is that it would be expensive to liquidate Sears.
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By 2001, Walmart's revenues were about five times that of Sears.
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So could Sears be heading back to a second bankruptcy filing?
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A spokesman for Sears, now called Transform Holdco, declined to comment.
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In 1928, Wood officially became president of Sears, Roebuck and Company.
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Sears purchased clothing company Lands' End for $2 billion in 2002.
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Sears insisted the sales agreement required ESL to assume those payments.
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Not all the objections filed in the case seek Sears' liquidation.
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The upcoming holiday season will be a particular challenge for Sears.
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Sears, which bought Kmart in 227, filed for bankruptcy last year.
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Like Sears, Kmart started at the end of the 19th century.
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Sears is experimenting with new formats as it fights for survival.
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Lampert and his hedge fund own about 50 percent of Sears.
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His majority stake in Sears' stock has essentially been wiped out.
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Breakingviews The last chapter for Sears looks to be at hand.
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New York (CNN Business)The battle for Sears customers is underway.
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Sears shoppers are most likely to shop at Walmart and Target.
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But the fight for the scraps at Sears' will be crowded.
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Sears accounted for only 3% of Whirlpool's sales worldwide in 2017.
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It is unclear how Mr. Lampert plans to turn Sears around.
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This week, Sears filed for bankruptcy after 132 years in business.
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You don't need satellite photos to know that Sears is failing.
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Bruce Berkowitz, Fairholme's founder, stepped down from Sears' board in 2017.
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Both Sears and Delta Airlines suffered from online breaches in 2017.
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Sears, known for its mail-order catalogs, dates back to 1893.
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" The suit was brought by Sears' unsecured creditors on behalf of Sears, alleging that, "In an effort to create a false record to cover up their asset stripping, at Lampert's personal direction, Sears employees repeatedly produced financial plans reflecting fanciful, bad-faith predictions that the company would experience an immediate and dramatic turn-around from deep and mounting losses to sudden profitability.
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But in the latest court documents, ESL said it wouldn't make the severance payments because Sears didn't give the hedge fund all of the assets it spelled out in ESL and Lampert's agreement to buy Sears.
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They contend that because Sears spun off more than 200 properties to Seritage last July, creditors could go after Seritage's assets in the event of a Sears bankruptcy until that transaction hits its two-year anniversary.
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Sears' restructuring committee is meeting Wednesday at the offices of Sears' legal advisor, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, to discuss whether they will deem Lampert's offer to buy 425 stores "qualified," or financially secure, another person told CNBC.
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Sears reported a bigger net loss as sales fell and said it was exploring potential partnerships or other deals for its unit that houses the Kenmore, Craftsman and DieHard brands and its Sears Home Services business.
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"We are down, but not out... - SMT," Sears, via its official Twitter account (@Sears), said in reply to one of the many posts Monday morning about the 126-year-old company potentially going out of business.
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Liquidation could save some of Sears' components, such as its home services business, but the move will mean the closing of hundreds of Sears stores across the U.S. — along with the likely loss of 50,000 jobs.
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Others sued include ESL President Kunal Kamlani; Bruce Berkowitz and his Fairholme Capital Management, which was a large Sears shareholder; and Seritage Growth Properties, which took over 266 of Sears' best stores in a 2015 spinoff.
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The complaint said Lampert ordered the creation of bogus financial plans projecting a Sears turnaround, and used them to help transfer five major assets worth more than $2 billion, including Land's End and Sears Hometown Outlet.
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The rest of the Sears' board, which includes Steven Mnuchin, who is currently the nominee to be U.S. Treasury secretary, were alleged to have failed to properly oversee the deal and protect the interests of Sears.
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The filing accused Sears' unsecured creditors of efforts to "poison the well" against ESL, with "page after page of its pleadings with smears and false narratives that are completely irrelevant" to his proposed acquisition of Sears.
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Sears Holdings also provides certain logistics, warehousing, human resources, information technology and transportation costs to Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, which is invoiced weekly and also pays its former parent royalties on sales of certain brands.
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Stollenwerck has been with Sears for 15 years, leading the retailer through countless asset sales and serving a key role in 2015 when Sears spun off roughly 250 properties to form real estate investment trust Seritage.
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If a store is "unprofitable as defined" in the agreement between the companies, Sears has the option to exit the lease by making a payment equal to one year of rent, a Sears spokesman told CNBC.
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"Sears Holdings continues its strategic assessment of the productivity of our Kmart and Sears store base and will continue to right size our store footprint in number and size," a memo reads on the company's website.
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Other objections to saving Sears The proposed sale also faces strong opposition from a committee of major creditors -- such as vendors and landlords -- who argue that Sears should be closed down and have its assets liquidated.
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This year, Sears has sued two vendors to force them to continue supplying goods even as many others reduce shipments to the retailer, concerned they could wind up empty-handed if Sears files for bankruptcy protection.
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A net loss attributable to Sears Holdings' shareholders should range from $200 million to $320 million in the fourth quarter, Sears said, compared with a net loss of $607 million during the same period in 2016.
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" In a blog post on Thursday, Sears Chairman and CEO Eddie Lampert said: "This is exactly the kind of innovative collaboration we strive for at Sears, and we look forward to making Kenmore's launch on Amazon.
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Also see: Here is a map of the 1.5 Sears and Kmart stores set to close Lampert, who has a controlling ownership stake in Sears, personally holds some 31 percent of its shares outstanding, according to FactSet.
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"We continue to work to manage our vendor relationships in a constructive manner… we will continue to ensure that our vendors deliver on their obligations to Sears," Sears said in its second-quarter earnings statement on Thursday.
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Sears took the issue to court in June, when it sued Ideal Industries Inc after the maker of Craftsman-branded tools declined to fulfill purchase orders because of Sears' "known fragile financial condition," according to court documents.
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Sears Holdings is cutting its century-old ties with Whirlpool and will no longer sell the company's products, which include Maytag, KitchenAid and Jenn-Air subsidiaries, according to an internal Sears memo sent to stores last week.
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He's been contracted by various projects to act as a Sears historian, and recently served as a consultant on a play involving a character who worked at the historic Sears department store in LA's Boyle Heights neighborhood.
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Writing back in 2015, Forbes contributor Steve Banker reported that Innovel was the "supply chain arm" for Sears Holding Company and served clients like the Air Force Exchange, the Navy Exchange, and former Sears brand Lands' End.
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A Sears store closed in 2017 and is now being redeveloped as Esplanade at Aventura, a 315,000-square-foot, open-air retail project from Seritage Growth Properties, a real estate investment trust spun out of Sears Holdings.
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Signs that the end is near Sears revealed Tuesday night that investor Bruce Berkowitz of Fairholme Capital Management dumped 142,000 shares of Sears in the last few days, for only 59 cents to 65 cents a share.
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He was the only buyer who offered Sears a lifeline at all — other bidders just wanted to liquidate the chain — but he had already presided over a long decline of Sears going back more than a decade.
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Selling Kenmore is part of Sears' transformation to an integrated online retailer.
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Sears is a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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It isn't just Macy's and Sears that have too much real estate.
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A Sears spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The agency's report came just days after Moody's downgraded Sears' corporate rating.
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Sears' unsecured creditors have eight days to formally object to ESL's bid.
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Sears stopped selling house kits after the end of the Great Depression.
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Sears filed for bankruptcy protection in White Plains, New York on Oct.
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Things aren't getting any better at Sears — in fact, they're getting worse.
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If it cannot find a buyer, Sears will likely have to liquidate.
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Sears has had trouble raising additional financing beyond what banks originally promised.
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"You see the rise and fall of Sears and others," McMillon said.
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Spokespeople for Sears and ESL did not immediately return requests for comment.
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The fund has loaned Sears $200 million in the last month alone.
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Sears technicians make nearly 7 million service calls annually, the company says.
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Keeping Sears afloat was easier for Lampert before it filed for bankruptcy.
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Sears will look to immediately shed the products currently lining its shelves.
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That report came a few days after Moody's downgraded Sears' corporate rating.
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Lowe's sells a broad array of tools, including Sears' own Craftsman brand.
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Even with Cyrus' support, however, ESL faces challenges in keeping Sears alive.
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Sears also announced store closures and the sale of its Craftsman business.
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Sears has moved two more pieces in its game of financial Jenga.
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Sears, which also owns Kmart stores, filed for bankruptcy on Oct. 15.
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Midday Tuesday, billionaire Eddie Lampert's efforts to keep Sears alive were dead.
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Many people consider Sears to have been the Amazon of its day.
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Some of Sears' unsecured lenders have already pushed for it to liquidate.
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His lawyer, Stuart Sears, did not immediately return a request for comment.
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In July, Sears closed its last remaining store in Chicago, its hometown.
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"Ultimately, Sears needs not just to fix its financial problems," he said.
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The post-bankruptcy Sears did not immediately respond to a similar request.
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The store count for Sears locations was expected to remain at 231.
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It's now being run by a committee of other top Sears executives.
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The push into appliances also comes as Sears' revenue continues to nosedive.
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Sears shares rose 5.6 percent in after-hours trading following the news.
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Now, it's among the first to have a Sears Home & Life store.
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But the Sears department store and auto center at 9701 Metcalf Ave.
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The tournament issued a statement that did not mention Sears by name.
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Cautionary tales from Sears and Barnes & Noble have big-box retailers spooked.
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Finally, when the meat is cooked through, it sears the meat completely.
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Inventory at discount chain Kmart also decreased in all categories, Sears said.
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Sears executive Dean Schwartz also argued against the merits of the tariffs.
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But even with the bankruptcy filing, Lampert continues to invest in Sears.
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It is unclear how the closures would impact Sears' roughly 90,000 workers.
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Sears employed about 68,000 people when it filed for bankruptcy in October.
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Sears' pension deficit totaled $8003 billion for the period ended July 29.
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Nigel Sears, 58, had collapsed on a staircase inside Rod Laver Arena.
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But that wasn't enough to save Sears from heading to bankruptcy court.
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It is unclear how the closures would impact Sears' almost 70,000 employees.
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Sears and Brookstone, icons of brick and mortar retailing, are both bankrupt.
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Sears Holding jumped 13.3 percent after the retailer narrowed its quarterly losses.
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Design looks like something out of a Sears catalog in the 50s.
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Department stores like Sears, Macy's, and JCPenney have shuttered hundreds of locations.
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Sears Holdings is planning to shut 40 more stores early next year.
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Sears also saw weakness in its apparel and lawn and garden categories.
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Fitch also downgraded the senior unsecured notes of Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp.
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Sears could also continue to use real estate to secure additional debt.
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"He's our leader, our captain," Sears said, via the USA Today story.
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It has opened three locations in former Sears stores, according to JLL.
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Sears did not have enough money to pay all of the expenses.
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Liquidation announcements were prepared by Sears and Lampert advisers, the people said.
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Sears' expenses did not necessarily have to be fully covered, he said.
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Sears will consider Lampert's offer against a proposed liquidation during a Jan.
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Sears has $13.2 billion in total liabilities, according to the SEC report.
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He said Sears had streamlined operations, reduced inventory and minimized operating expenses.
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Both Amazon and Sears stopped selling a swastika ring on their websites.
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Sears Holdings is scheduled to report first-quarter results later this month.
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Retaining the confidence of vendors is also key to Sears remaining operational.
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Transformco, which purchased nearly all of the assets of Sears Holdings Corp.
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Rival Sears recently filed for bankruptcy after basically running out of cash.
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New York (CNN Business)Sears' 133rd holiday season could be its last.
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Sears, in a nostalgic move, is bringing back its iconic holiday catalogs.
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Sears filed two different types of bonus plans in bankruptcy court Thursday.
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Hinsliff, Boot, and Sears all describe variants of the same conversion process.
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Sears, a company that once dominated retail, filed for bankruptcy last month.
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Sears has lost more than $8 billion over the last five years.
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The loan is in addition to $750 million Sears obtained in March.
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More important, Lampert personally lent billions to Sears Kmart, increasing corporate debt.
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Then he caught a break: Sears invited him to a job interview.
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Shares of Sears were up 6 percent at $13.27 in morning trading.
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Shares of Sears were down more than 7 percent on the news.
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Sears has shuttered stores and cut jobs as Amazon has gained momentum.
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Sears has said that staying in the business is the best outcome.
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Sears Hometown sell tools and outdoor goods and appliances, among other things.
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In October alone, GGP acquired two Sears locations — in Pennsylvania and Louisiana.
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At the time, the company had roughly 400 Sears and Kmart stores.
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Sears is nearing a crucial moment that could determine whether it survives.
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The company that owns Sears and Kmart filed for bankruptcy in October.
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In exchange, Sears said it will pay $255 million to the plan.
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They pointed to higher prices at Sears, limited inventory and messy stores.
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Sears' shares were down about 3 percent at $10.85 in morning trading.
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A combined Sears and Kmart had more than 4,000 locations in 2011.
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Soon enough, rival J.C. Penney's physical footprint will surpass that of Sears.
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As part of that arrangement, Sears paid $407 million toward the plan.
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Lampert says his plan would let 50,000 Sears employees keep their jobs.
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Shares of Sears Holdings were down more than 20203 percent by midday.
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