{"id":140148,"date":"2026-02-20T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140148\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:51:25","slug":"retailer-that-was-once-americas-largest-has-just-5-stores-left-after-closing-3000-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140148\/","title":{"rendered":"Retailer that was once America\u2019s largest has just 5 stores left after closing 3,000, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a time when Sears was as big as it gets in the retail game in the United States, and having the store\u2019s catalog in hand \u2026 well, 30 years ago that was about like hoping on Amazon or any of today\u2019s modern online mega retailers.<\/p>\n

But times have been changing fast for Sears.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the one-time giant was down to just eight locations, and now eight is down to five, according to a new report from The Street.<\/a><\/p>\n

To put that in perspective: Sears once had 3,500 stores, making it the largest retailer in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe company has been on a death spiral for well over a decade,\u201d former Sears executive Mark Cohen told CBS. \u201cIt lost sight of the fact that change is a constant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, considering the retailer\u2019s footprint at one time, the idea that just five remain is likely a shock to many Americans of a certain age.<\/p>\n

Kmart actually purchased Sears in an $11 billion merger back in 2005, but the stores were not able to keep up with the retail competition that came from the likes of Walmart and Amazon. Sears filed for bankruptcy in 2018 and then bought out of that in 2019. The struggles have continued since, though, and the retailer is just hanging on by a thread.<\/p>\n

For folks looking for a bit of nostalgia and a trip to the store before it is no more, the final five Sears locations are in Coral Gables, Florida; Orlando, Florida; Braintree, Massachusetts; Concord, California; and El Paso, Texas.<\/p>\n

The Staten Island Sears, located in the Staten Island Mall, New Springville, shuttered in 2019.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a time when Sears was as big as it gets in the retail game in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-140148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}