While waiting for a perspective buyer to save the company, Sears Holdings has announced it is closing 80 of its locations, both Kmart and Sears department stores, by February of 2019.  They are in addition to the 40 previously announced closings, bringing its total to 120. Among the sites that are slated to shut down […]

SEVEN HILLS, Ohio – Residents in Seven Hills may soon have a brand new Meijer to shop at, following the preliminary approval of the store by the city’s Planning Commission last week. City officials hope to open the store on Broadview Road, at the same location where Kmart now sits. According to city officials, the […]

CLEVELAND – After trying to stave off a decade straight of unprofitable years, the inevitable has finally happened: the parent company of Sears and K-Mart filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday morning. As a result, more than 100 stores will shutter at the end of the year, including the Kmart store in Middleburg Heights, […]

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The Kmart on Lorain Avenue in Cleveland will close in January of 2018. According to a press release from Sears Holdings 45 Kmart stores and 18 Sears stores will close. The stores will close in the later part of January. 63 Sears, Kmart stores to close by early 2018 Sears Holding said liquidation […]

There is some concern of how customers are going to refer the section to a name other than “plus-size,” along with how they are viewed when buying those particular type of clothing.   Hey, some nice news! Kmart is sprucing up its plus-size offerings and doing more to integrate them into the rest of the […]

This dominio effect is likely to continue…and with good reason.   What do you do when you want to send a clear message to the POTUS that his ridiculous policies are racist, sexist, discriminatory and unconstitutional? Well you hit him (and his family) in his wallet and that is exactly what’s happening as retailers Sears […]

MENTOR- A representative for Kmart has announced the closings of two local stores. The Kmart stores at 3801 Harmont Avenue NE in Canton and 9200 Mentor Avenue in Mentor will be closing in December. Both locations will remain open to customers until mid-December and begin their liquidation sales on Thursday, September 22. The representative said […]

  WESTLAKE, Ohio – The Kmart store on Detroit Road in Westlake is closing in late April because the lease on the building was not renewed. The store will begin its liquidation sale on February 9. It currently has 57 employees and most are part time/hourly workers. According to company officials, associates that are eligible […]

  Kmart has released a taboo commercial for Joe Boxer. The “#ShowYourJoe” ad is part of Kmart’s holiday-themed Joe Boxer items being sold at their store and online. In the commercial, you see men who are playing the bells place their hand-held bells down and start playing another tune…with a different set of bells. Must […]

CLEVELAND – Sears Holdings Corp. announced the closing of more than 100 Sears and Kmart stores, including two in northeast Ohio. The company cited poor sales during the holidays as the reason to close between 100 and 120 stores. The company released a list of 79 stores, mostly Kmart stores, on Thursday. Six of the […]

Last week several customers walked into Kmart in Anderson Township, Ohio with the intention of canceling the layaway items they could no longer afford, until something special happened.  A woman simply known as “Marilyn” walked up to the counter and proceeded to pay off the balances of several customer’s layaway accounts!  This is what the […]