Sears lists Kmart in Mesa in latest round of store closures

PHOENIX — The last Kmart in Mesa will be among the 28 stores going out of business in the next few months, parent company Sears announced Thursday.

Sears Holdings Inc., which operates Sears and Kmart stores, said liquidation sales would begin Aug. 31 and that most of the stores would be closed in November.

The Mesa store is near U.S. 60 and Power Road.

No other Kmarts in the state were affected, Sears said.

The struggling retailer, once a household name, has already shut down nearly 200 stores this year and in June had plans to lay off 400.

A year ago, there were 709 Sears stores in the country and 883 Kmarts. Now there are 650 Sears stores and 610 Kmarts.

The Kmart at 25th and Northern avenues in Phoenix was among the closures announced in early July. Liquidation sales were set to begin later that month, with the final day of business to be in October.

In a statement posted at the Sears Holdings website, the company said, “…we have been working with resolve to accelerate our transformation and achieve profitability.”

California will lose the most stores, with four named on the list.

Scrambling to remain relevant in the marketplace, Sears recently agreed to sell its Kenmore line of appliances on Amazon and added the online merchandising giant’s voice-activated assistant, Alexa.

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