This piece is a continuation on our series keeping tabs on classic retail chains as they, unfortunately, fade into the rear view.
This list is solely for full-line Sears stores, which as of now are the only ones that still exist. The owner operated Sears Hometown Stores have all shut down. As we noted in our similar post about the remaining Kmarts in the United States, after Sears Holdings Corporation emerged from bankruptcy as Transform Co, they’ve continued to close stores rapidly. You may wonder, is there still a Sears near me?
There are 11 Sears stores left in the United States as of March 3, 2024. The inspiration of this post originally came from Reddit, but we verified all of the information from this post independently.
Full list of remaining Sears store locations in the United States
Sears near me? All stores listed are full-line Sears stores unless otherwise noted in parentheses.
Open Sears Store Locations:
California
Burbank (Reopened October 2023)
Concord
Stockton
Whittier
Florida
Miami – Coral Gables (Video)
Orlando (Store visit post)
Massachusetts
Braintree
Puerto Rico
San Juan
Texas
El Paso
Washington
Tukwila
Union Gap (Reopened November 2023)
Recent closures:
2024:
Jersey City, NJ (3/3) (Store Visit Video) (Store Visit Post)
Palm Beach Gardens, FL (3/2) (Store Visit Video)
2023:
Fort Collins, CO (Appliance) (6/18)
Overland Park, KS (Home & Life) (6/18)
Lafayette, LA (Home & Life) (6/18)
Frederick, MD (1/15) (Store visit post 1 & 2, Store visit post 3)
Greensboro, NC (5/28) (Store visit post)
Camp Hill, PA (Appliance & Mattress) (6/18)
Pharr, TX (Appliance & Mattress (6/18)
2022:
Anchorage, AK (Home & Life) (10/2022)
Burbank, CA (12/18) (reopened 10/22/2023)
Fort Lauderdale, FL (1/21/2022 press release)
Honolulu, HI (Appliance and Mattress) (10/2022, article)
Newburgh, NY (10/16/2022, article)
Willow Grove, PA (3/6/2022, Store visit post)
Union Gap, WA (11/20/2022) (reopened 11/6/2023)
2021:
Boyle Heights, CA
Clovis, CA
Downey, CA (11/14)
Long Beach, CA
Los Altos, CA
Orange, CA
Pasadena, CA (11/14)
Rancho Cucamonga, CA (Sears Grand)
Sacramento, CA
Thornton, CO (Sears Grand)
Brandon, FL
Key Largo, FL
Marathon, FL
Merritt Island, FL
Aiea, HI
Hilo, HI
Kahului Maui, HI
Chicago Ridge, IL
Schaumburg, IL (11/14)
Baton Rouge, LA
Brockton, MA
Marlborough, MA
North Attleboro, MA
Silver Spring, MD
Grandville, MI
Westland, MI
Raleigh, NC (10/10)
Brooklyn, NY (11/24)
Massapequa, NY (10/3)
Harrisburg, PA (11/14)
Media, PA
Carolina, PR
Caugez, PR
Mayaguez, PR
Naranjito, PR
Raleigh, NC
Valley Stream, NY
Mesquite, TX
Dulles, VA
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It is terrible that a company that has been around for a very long time has to happen this. I had a retiree from Sears after 43 years of service.
Hatillo, PR, should be shown as “Closing permanently soon”, and Naranjito, PR, should be shown as a small-format store.
I spent 8 memorable years working with some fantastic people in four locations. Thanks for the memories, Sears! You are already missed. Not a single store left in Ohio.
Lambert should be in prison for what he has done to this great company!
Sears should start with smaller retail space, like when they first started retail and get away from the malls, also offer locker pickup or smaller location pickup for online. Sears is an excellent high quality store and products last for years. I believe the trend now is smaller, not big malls, online buying or smaller spaces where people can walk in and buy. Appliance at Sears is great but they should allow a selection of local appliance people that can install this will make it more competitive for repair people to get the business and better consumer service; since there were many complaints; I agree often they would be paid by sears for coming out but poor workmanship or none at all. Walmart is big but simple, people go to Walmart specifically to that store not in a Mall, walk in and buy and out!. I believe Sears can come back, older generation do not like the crowded malls and the slippery marble floors etc., and the young people are too busy with career and families they want to walk in get whatever they are buying and out the door, not like the 1970’s thru the 1990’s were people went to relax, walk or social hour.
Walmart is simple? Since when? Walmart, Home Depot and Lowes killed Sears.
Victims of there own successes and could not envision the need for stand alone locations and small catalog appliances TV type stores (1973 I was MGR of such a profitable store and had to close because HQ decided to expand mall stores).
Also HQ would not recognize Walmart as a real competitor at that point in time. Would not listen to field input. Very sad tail!
Rancho Cucamonga has closed.
Kahului Maui does not appear to be actually closing. The news report jumped to an erroneous conclusion from seeing the store listed for sale or lease on a real estate website.
Media, PA and Westland, MI are closing. See the latest list on the liquidator’s website, https://www.sb360.com/select-projects/events/sears-list/ .
The small Sears store in Naranjito, PR, is now listed as closing at https://www.sb360.com/select-projects/events/sears-list/ . It was one of the last new Sears stores to open, in 2018.
You may want to verify with a phone call, but I believe Naranjito has closed.
Fort Lauderdale closed permanently on 1/21/22 (per Sun-Sentinel).
You can add the Sears in Fort Lauderdale, FL to the list of closures. Its last day was January 21, 2022.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/transformco-to-close-sears-store-in-ft-lauderdale-fla-301466093.html
The Fort Lauderdale FL Sears store closed, quite suddenly, without liquidating, on January 21. Transformco issued a press release about it, which they almost never do.
https://transformco.com/press-releases/pr/2153
Wow, very fascinating. Crazy to get the rare Transform Co press release. Thanks for sharing !
I was in the Burbank (Los Angeles), California store today and unfortunately could see it is preparing to shut down, although no signage stating so. The clothing shelves were stocked with only about 30% of what they normally would be, and the store closes earlier now, at 6pm. You can’t stay in business that way. I am one of millions of other people with great memories of getting things I needed at Sears, from Levi’s to Everlast sweats to tools to womens clothing. Sad.
All five of the small stores are now about to close.