Troubled Sears offering to sell Gulf Coast stores

Retailer plasn to sell or auction eight operating Sears and Kmart locations

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • | 3:00 p.m. January 9, 2019
COURTESY PHOTO — Sears Holdings is offering to sell or auction eight Sears or Kmart stores along the Gulf Coast. The Westfield Citrus Park store, shown, will close as part of the chain's downsizing.
COURTESY PHOTO — Sears Holdings is offering to sell or auction eight Sears or Kmart stores along the Gulf Coast. The Westfield Citrus Park store, shown, will close as part of the chain's downsizing.
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In the wake of its October bankruptcy filing and in a bid to avoid liquidation, Sears Holdings Corp. is planning to sell or auction eight of the few remaining Sears and Kmart stores along the Gulf Coast.

 

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