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href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%B2" title="سیرز – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="سیرز" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%81" title="Сиърс – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Сиърс" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Roebuck" title="Sears Roebuck – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Sears Roebuck" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%B2" title="سیرز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سیرز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%9C%EC%96%B4%EC%8A%A4" title="시어스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="시어스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%A1" title="סירס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סירס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_(warenhuisketen)" title="Sears (warenhuisketen) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Sears (warenhuisketen)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA" title="シアーズ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="シアーズ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears,_Roebuck_and_Company" title="Sears, Roebuck and Company – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Sears, Roebuck and Company" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears" title="Sears – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Sears" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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It features the logo used from 1984 to 1994.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company type</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">Subsidiary</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category">Retail</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1886<span class="noprint"> (138 years ago)</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1886</span>)</span> (as R.W. Sears Watch Company)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />1892<span class="noprint"> (132 years ago)</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1892</span>)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, Illinois, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founders</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Warren_Sears" title="Richard Warren Sears">Richard Warren Sears</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Alvah_Curtis_Roebuck" title="Alvah Curtis Roebuck">Alvah Curtis Roebuck</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="ib-company-locality locality"><a href="/wiki/Hoffman_Estates,_Illinois" title="Hoffman Estates, Illinois">Hoffman Estates, Illinois</a></div>, <div class="ib-company-country country-name">U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Number of locations</div></th><td class="infobox-data">9 (September 2024)<sup id="cite_ref-brostocks_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brostocks-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Area served</div></th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li>Clothing</li> <li>footwear</li> <li>bedding</li> <li>bath</li> <li>furniture</li> <li>jewelry</li> <li>beauty products</li> <li>electronics</li> <li>appliances</li> <li>housewares</li> <li>tools</li> <li>toys</li> <li>auto repair</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Revenue</th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">US</a> $10.52 billion (2024)<sup id="cite_ref-Eulerpool_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eulerpool-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Earnings_before_interest_and_taxes" title="Earnings before interest and taxes">Operating income</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> −<span style="white-space: nowrap">US$</span> -1,936.00 (2018)<sup id="cite_ref-Morning_Star_Sears_Corp_Income_Statement_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Morning_Star_Sears_Corp_Income_Statement-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sears_Holdings" title="Sears Holdings">Sears Holdings</a> (2005–2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transformco" title="Transformco">Transformco</a> (2019–present)<sup id="cite_ref-businesswire.com_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-businesswire.com-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sears.com">sears<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sears, Roebuck and Co.</b>, commonly known as <b>Sears</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/ɪər/: 'ear' in 'near'">ɪər</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">SEERZ</span></i></a>),<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is an American chain of <a href="/wiki/Department_store" title="Department store">department stores</a> founded in 1892 by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Warren_Sears" title="Richard Warren Sears">Richard Warren Sears</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alvah_Curtis_Roebuck" title="Alvah Curtis Roebuck">Alvah Curtis Roebuck</a> and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and <a href="/wiki/Julius_Rosenwald" title="Julius Rosenwald">Julius Rosenwald</a>, with what began as a <a href="/wiki/Mail_order" title="Mail order">mail ordering</a> catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through the 1980s, Sears was the largest retailer in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2005, the company was bought by the management of the American <a href="/wiki/Big-box_store" title="Big-box store">big box</a> discount chain <a href="/wiki/Kmart_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kmart (United States)">Kmart</a>, which upon completion of the merger, formed <a href="/wiki/Sears_Holdings" title="Sears Holdings">Sears Holdings</a>. In 2018, it was the 31st-largest.<sup id="cite_ref-stores.org_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stores.org-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After several years of declining sales, Sears's parent company filed for Chapter 11 <a href="/wiki/Bankruptcy" title="Bankruptcy">bankruptcy</a> on October 15, 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt1_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It announced on January 16, 2019, that it had won its bankruptcy auction, and that a reduced number of 425 stores would remain open, including 223 Sears stores.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sears was based in the <a href="/wiki/Willis_Tower" title="Willis Tower">Sears Tower</a> in Chicago from 1973 until 1995,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was later headquartered in <a href="/wiki/Hoffman_Estates,_Illinois" title="Hoffman Estates, Illinois">Hoffman Estates, Illinois</a> from 1993 until 2021, the year when it announced that it would be selling its Hoffman Estates headquarters complex.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On December 12, 2022, Sears Authorized Hometown Stores, LLC, and affiliated debtor Sears Hometown, Inc., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and on December 26 announced the liquidation of the 115 largely owner-operated Hometown stores.<sup id="cite_ref-Valinsky_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Valinsky-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of November 2024,<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> there are nine Sears stores remaining, with eight in the mainland U.S. and one location in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.<sup id="cite_ref-brostocks_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brostocks-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Beginnings">Beginnings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Beginnings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:267px;max-width:267px"><div class="trow"><div class="theader">Sears' founders</div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:137px;max-width:137px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:158px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Richard_Sears.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Richard_Sears.jpg/135px-Richard_Sears.jpg" decoding="async" width="135" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Richard_Sears.jpg/203px-Richard_Sears.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Richard_Sears.jpg 2x" data-file-width="254" data-file-height="297" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Warren_Sears" title="Richard Warren Sears">Richard Warren Sears</a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:126px;max-width:126px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:158px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:AlvahRoebuck.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/AlvahRoebuck.jpg/124px-AlvahRoebuck.jpg" decoding="async" width="124" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/AlvahRoebuck.jpg/186px-AlvahRoebuck.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/AlvahRoebuck.jpg/248px-AlvahRoebuck.jpg 2x" data-file-width="548" data-file-height="703" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Alvah_Curtis_Roebuck" title="Alvah Curtis Roebuck">Alvah Curtis Roebuck</a></div></div></div></div></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Richard_Warren_Sears" title="Richard Warren Sears">Richard Warren Sears</a> was born in 1863 in <a href="/wiki/Stewartville,_Minnesota" title="Stewartville, Minnesota">Stewartville, Minnesota</a>, to a wealthy family which moved to nearby <a href="/wiki/Spring_Valley,_Minnesota" title="Spring Valley, Minnesota">Spring Valley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SVMuseum_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SVMuseum-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1879, his father died shortly after losing the family fortune in a speculative stock deal.<sup id="cite_ref-SVMuseum_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SVMuseum-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sears moved across the state to work as a railroad station agent in <a href="/wiki/Redwood_Falls,_Minnesota" title="Redwood Falls, Minnesota">North Redwood</a>, then <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis">Minneapolis</a>. </p><p>While he was in North Redwood, a jeweler refused delivery on a shipment of watches. Sears purchased them and sold them at a low price to the station agents, making a profit. He started a mail-order watch business in Minneapolis in 1886, calling it the R.W. Sears Watch Company. That year, he met <a href="/wiki/Alvah_Curtis_Roebuck" title="Alvah Curtis Roebuck">Alvah Curtis Roebuck</a>, a watch repairman. In 1887, Sears and Roebuck relocated the business to Chicago, and the company published Richard Sears's first mail-order catalog, offering watches, diamonds, and jewelry. </p><p>In 1889, Sears sold his business for $100,000 ($3 million in 2021 dollars) and relocated to Iowa, planning to be a rural banker.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He returned to Chicago in 1892 and established a new mail-order firm, again selling watches and jewelry, with Roebuck as his partner, operating as the A. C. Roebuck watch company. On September 16, 1893,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> they renamed the company <b>Sears, Roebuck, and Co.</b> and began to diversify the product lines offered in their catalogs. </p><p>Before the Sears catalog, farmers near small rural towns usually purchased supplies, often at high prices and on credit, from local <a href="/wiki/General_store" title="General store">general stores</a> with narrow selections of goods. Prices were negotiated and relied on the storekeeper's estimate of a customer's creditworthiness. Sears built an opposite business model by offering in their catalogs a larger selection of products at published prices. </p><p>By 1894, the Sears catalog had grown to 322 pages, including many new items, such as sewing machines, bicycles, <a href="/wiki/Sports_equipment" title="Sports equipment">sporting goods</a> and <a href="/wiki/Automobile" class="mw-redirect" title="Automobile">automobiles</a> (later produced, from 1905 to 1915, by <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Motor_Car_Works" title="Lincoln Motor Car Works">Lincoln Motor Car Works</a> of Chicago [no relation to the current <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_(automobile)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lincoln (automobile)">Ford line</a>]).<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1895, the company was producing a 532-page catalog. Sales were over $400,000 ($12 million in 2021 dollars) in 1893 and over $750,000 ($20 million in 2021 dollars) two years later.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1896, dolls, stoves, and groceries were added to the catalog. </p><p>Despite the strong and growing sales, the national <a href="/wiki/Panic_of_1893" title="Panic of 1893">Panic of 1893</a> led to a full-scale <a href="/wiki/Economic_depression" title="Economic depression">economic depression</a>, causing a cash squeeze and large quantities of unsold merchandise by 1895. Roebuck decided to quit, returning later in a publicity role. Sears offered Roebuck's half of the company to Chicago businessman <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Nusbaum" title="Aaron Nusbaum">Aaron Nusbaum</a>, who in turn brought in his brother-in-law <a href="/wiki/Julius_Rosenwald" title="Julius Rosenwald">Julius Rosenwald</a>, to whom Sears owed money. In August 1895, they bought Roebuck's half of the company for $75,000 ($2.7 million today), and that month the company was reincorporated in Illinois with a capital stock of $150,000 ($5.5 million today). The transaction was handled by <a href="/wiki/Albert_Henry_Loeb" title="Albert Henry Loeb">Albert Henry Loeb</a> of Chicago law firm Loeb & Adler (now <a href="/wiki/Arnstein_%26_Lehr" title="Arnstein & Lehr">Arnstein & Lehr</a>); copies of the transaction are still displayed on the firm's walls.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_20th_century">Early 20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears_Merchandise_Building_Tower.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Sears_Merchandise_Building_Tower.jpg/170px-Sears_Merchandise_Building_Tower.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Sears_Merchandise_Building_Tower.jpg/255px-Sears_Merchandise_Building_Tower.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Sears_Merchandise_Building_Tower.jpg/340px-Sears_Merchandise_Building_Tower.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="3072" /></a><figcaption>The exterior of the former <a href="/wiki/Sears_Merchandise_Building_Tower" class="mw-redirect" title="Sears Merchandise Building Tower">Sears Merchandise Building Tower</a>, now the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Tower</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears_Building_Memphis_TN_06.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Sears_Building_Memphis_TN_06.jpg/220px-Sears_Building_Memphis_TN_06.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Sears_Building_Memphis_TN_06.jpg/330px-Sears_Building_Memphis_TN_06.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Sears_Building_Memphis_TN_06.jpg/440px-Sears_Building_Memphis_TN_06.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1440" /></a><figcaption>Former Sears Catalog Distribution Center and Retail Store in <a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis, Tennessee</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Sears and Rosenwald got along well with each other, but not with Nusbaum; they bought his interest in the firm for $1.3 million in 1903 ($44.1 million today).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEmmetJeuck195047–53_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEmmetJeuck195047–53-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rosenwald brought to the mail-order firm a rational management philosophy and diversified product lines: dry goods, consumer durables, drugs, hardware, furniture, and nearly anything else a farm household could desire. </p><p>Sales continued to proliferate, and the prosperity of the company and their vision for more significant expansion led Sears and Rosenwald to take the company public in 1906, with a stock placement of $40 million ($1.4 billion today). They had to incorporate a new company to bring the operation public; Sears and Rosenwald established <b>Sears, Roebuck and Company</b> with the legal name <b>Sears, Roebuck and Co.</b>, in the state of New York, which effectively replaced the original company.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The current company inherits the history of the old company, celebrating the original 1892 incorporation, rather than the 1906 revision, as the start of the company. </p><p>Sears's successful 1906 <a href="/wiki/Initial_public_offering" title="Initial public offering">initial public offering</a> (IPO) marks the first major retail IPO in American financial history and represented a coming of age, financially, of the consumer sector.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company traded under the ticker symbol S and was a component of the <a href="/wiki/Historical_components_of_the_Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average" title="Historical components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average">Dow Jones Industrial Average</a> from 1924 to 1999. </p><p>In 1906, Sears opened its catalog plant and the Sears Merchandise Building Tower in <a href="/wiki/West_Side,_Chicago" title="West Side, Chicago">Chicago's West Side</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The building was the anchor of what would become the massive 40-acre (16 ha) <a href="/wiki/Sears,_Roebuck_and_Company_Complex" title="Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex">Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex</a> of offices, laboratories, and mail-order operations at Homan Avenue and Arthington Street. The complex served as corporate headquarters until 1973 when the <a href="/wiki/Sears_Tower" class="mw-redirect" title="Sears Tower">Sears Tower</a> was completed and served as the base of the mail-order catalog business until 1995. </p><p>By 1907, under Rosenwald's leadership as vice president and treasurer, annual sales of the company climbed to roughly $50 million ($1.6 billion today).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEmmetJeuck195057_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEmmetJeuck195057-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sears resigned from the presidency in 1908 due to declining health, with Rosenwald named president and chairman of the board and taking on full control.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEmmetJeuck1950183–184_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEmmetJeuck1950183–184-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1910, Sears acquired the David Bradley Plow company. This acquisition would lead to the manufacturing of riding mowers, chainsaws, tillers, etc., in the Bradley Illinois factory.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The company was badly hurt during <a href="/wiki/Post%E2%80%93World_War_I_recession" title="Post–World War I recession">1919–21 as a severe depression</a> hit the nation's farms after farmers had over-expanded their holdings. To bail out the company, Rosenwald pledged $21 million ($358.7 million today) of his personal wealth in 1921.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1922, Sears regained financial stability. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Boom_years">Boom years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Boom years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bedford_Av_Beverley_Rd_td_(2019-03-30)_01_-_Sears_Roebuck_%26_Company.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Bedford_Av_Beverley_Rd_td_%282019-03-30%29_01_-_Sears_Roebuck_%26_Company.jpg/220px-Bedford_Av_Beverley_Rd_td_%282019-03-30%29_01_-_Sears_Roebuck_%26_Company.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Bedford_Av_Beverley_Rd_td_%282019-03-30%29_01_-_Sears_Roebuck_%26_Company.jpg/330px-Bedford_Av_Beverley_Rd_td_%282019-03-30%29_01_-_Sears_Roebuck_%26_Company.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Bedford_Av_Beverley_Rd_td_%282019-03-30%29_01_-_Sears_Roebuck_%26_Company.jpg/440px-Bedford_Av_Beverley_Rd_td_%282019-03-30%29_01_-_Sears_Roebuck_%26_Company.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5472" data-file-height="3648" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Art_Deco" title="Art Deco">Art Deco</a> 1930s Sears store in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, New York City</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears,_Roebuck_and_Company_store_in_Cameron_Village,_Raleigh,_North_Carolina.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Sears%2C_Roebuck_and_Company_store_in_Cameron_Village%2C_Raleigh%2C_North_Carolina.jpg/220px-Sears%2C_Roebuck_and_Company_store_in_Cameron_Village%2C_Raleigh%2C_North_Carolina.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Sears%2C_Roebuck_and_Company_store_in_Cameron_Village%2C_Raleigh%2C_North_Carolina.jpg/330px-Sears%2C_Roebuck_and_Company_store_in_Cameron_Village%2C_Raleigh%2C_North_Carolina.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Sears%2C_Roebuck_and_Company_store_in_Cameron_Village%2C_Raleigh%2C_North_Carolina.jpg/440px-Sears%2C_Roebuck_and_Company_store_in_Cameron_Village%2C_Raleigh%2C_North_Carolina.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5130" data-file-height="4045" /></a><figcaption>Store in <a href="/wiki/Raleigh,_North_Carolina" title="Raleigh, North Carolina">Raleigh, North Carolina</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1952</span>)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lloyd_Center_Sears_store_from_NE_in_2017.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Lloyd_Center_Sears_store_from_NE_in_2017.jpg/220px-Lloyd_Center_Sears_store_from_NE_in_2017.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Lloyd_Center_Sears_store_from_NE_in_2017.jpg/330px-Lloyd_Center_Sears_store_from_NE_in_2017.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Lloyd_Center_Sears_store_from_NE_in_2017.jpg/440px-Lloyd_Center_Sears_store_from_NE_in_2017.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4828" data-file-height="3164" /></a><figcaption>Typical Sears mall anchor store in the <a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Center" title="Lloyd Center">Lloyd Center</a> in <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland, Oregon</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Brick_and_mortar">Brick and mortar</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Brick and mortar"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rosenwald decided to shift emphasis to urban America and brought in <a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Wood" title="Robert E. Wood">Robert E. Wood</a> to take charge. Rosenwald oversaw the design and construction of the firm's first department store, built on land within the Sears, Roebuck, and Company Complex. The store opened in 1925. In 1924, Rosenwald resigned the presidency but remained as chair until he died in 1932; his goal was to devote more time to philanthropy.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first store opened on February 2, 1925, as an experiment in the <a href="/wiki/North_Lawndale,_Chicago" title="North Lawndale, Chicago">North Lawndale</a> <a href="/wiki/Sears,_Roebuck_and_Company_Complex" title="Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex">Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite its remote location on the outskirts of Chicago, its success led to dozens of further openings across the country, many in conjunction with the company's mail-order offices,<sup id="cite_ref-remaking_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-remaking-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> typically in lower-middle-class and working-class neighborhoods, far from the main downtown shopping district. This was considered highly unconventional at a time when shopping was concentrated in city centers, but through <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, there was an extensive <a href="/wiki/Streetcar" class="mw-redirect" title="Streetcar">streetcar</a> network in Chicago and other U.S. cities. However, rapidly increasing car ownership and the brand's huge popularity helped attract customers.<sup id="cite_ref-rise_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rise-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sears retail stores were pioneering and broke the conventions of the time in three ways: </p> <ul><li>their location away from central shopping districts,</li> <li>innovative store design, and</li> <li>unconventional product mix and retailing practices.</li></ul> <p>Many stores at this time were designed by architect <a href="/wiki/George_C._Nimmons" title="George C. Nimmons">George C. Nimmons</a> and his firms. The architecture was driven by merchandising needs rather than the desired outer appearance. This made the stores excellent examples of the <a href="/wiki/Modern_architecture" title="Modern architecture">modern architecture</a> of the time—styles made famous by <a href="/wiki/Bertram_Goodhue" title="Bertram Goodhue">Bertram Goodhue</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eliel_Saarinen" title="Eliel Saarinen">Eliel Saarinen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-remaking_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-remaking-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-rise_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rise-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Its stores were oriented to motorists. Set apart from existing business districts amid residential areas occupied by their target audience, they had ample, free, off-street parking and communicated a clear corporate identity. In the 1930s, the company designed fully air-conditioned, "windowless" stores, such as <a href="/wiki/Sears-Pico" class="mw-redirect" title="Sears-Pico">Sears-Pico</a> in 1939 in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was the first to have an open plan selling floor (instead of breaking up the floor into discrete sections).<sup id="cite_ref-remaking_32-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-remaking-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sears was also a pioneer in creating department stores that catered to men and women. The stores included hardware and building materials. It de-emphasized the latest clothing fashions in favor of practical and durable clothing and allowed customers to select goods without the aid of a clerk. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Catalog">Catalog</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Catalog"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1933, Sears issued the first of its Christmas catalogs known as the "<a href="/wiki/Sears_Wishbook" class="mw-redirect" title="Sears Wishbook">Sears Wishbook</a>", a catalog featuring toys and gifts, separate from the annual Christmas Catalog. From 1908 to 1940, it included ready-to-assemble <a href="/wiki/Sears_Catalog_Home" class="mw-redirect" title="Sears Catalog Home">Sears Catalog Home</a> kit houses.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Americas_and_Spain">Americas and Spain</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Americas and Spain"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sears_in_Latin_America" title="Sears in Latin America">Sears in Latin America</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:3._Edificio_Sears.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/3._Edificio_Sears.jpg/220px-3._Edificio_Sears.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/3._Edificio_Sears.jpg/330px-3._Edificio_Sears.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/3._Edificio_Sears.jpg/440px-3._Edificio_Sears.jpg 2x" data-file-width="722" data-file-height="503" /></a><figcaption>Sears at Bello Monte in <a href="/wiki/Caracas" title="Caracas">Caracas</a>, Venezuela, in 1950</figcaption></figure> <p>Sears opened a small store in Downtown <a href="/wiki/Havana" title="Havana">Havana</a>, Cuba in 1942. Sears opened its first store in <a href="/wiki/Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a> in 1947; the Mexican stores would later spin off into <a href="/wiki/Sears_Mexico" title="Sears Mexico">Sears Mexico</a>, now owned by billionaire <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Slim" title="Carlos Slim">Carlos Slim</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Grupo_Sanborns" title="Grupo Sanborns">Grupo Sanborns</a>, which in 2020 operated more than 75 stores across Mexico.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sears had sales of US$78 million in other territories in 1953. Over time, Sears expanded into all Central American countries, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Spain.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Currently Sears operates in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Puerto Rico. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Expansion">Expansion</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Expansion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From the 1920s to the 1950s, Sears built many urban department stores in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico (apart from, but not far from, existing <a href="/wiki/Central_business_district" title="Central business district">central business districts</a>), and they overshadowed the mail-order business. Following World War II, the company expanded into suburban markets and malls. In 1959, it had formed the <a href="/wiki/Homart_Development_Company" title="Homart Development Company">Homart Development Company</a> for developing malls. Many of the company's stores have undergone major renovations or replacements since the 1980s. Sears began to diversify in the 1930s, creating <a href="/wiki/Allstate" title="Allstate">Allstate Insurance Company</a> in 1931 and placing Allstate representatives in its stores in 1934 (Allstate was also used as a house brand on a range of motorized vehicles sold by Sears). Over the decades, it established major national brands, such as <a href="/wiki/Kenmore_Appliances" class="mw-redirect" title="Kenmore Appliances">Kenmore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Craftsman_(tools)" title="Craftsman (tools)">Craftsman</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/DieHard_(brand)" title="DieHard (brand)">DieHard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Silvertone_(instruments)" class="mw-redirect" title="Silvertone (instruments)">Silvertone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Supertone_Records" title="Supertone Records">Supertone</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Toughskins" title="Toughskins">Toughskins</a> — and marketed widely under its <a href="/wiki/Private_label" title="Private label">private labels</a>, e.g., marketing the <i>Sears Archer 600</i> typewriter as a <a href="/wiki/Badge_engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Badge engineering">rebranded</a> <a href="/wiki/Silver_Seiko_Ltd.#Silver_Reed_Silverette_typewriter" class="mw-redirect" title="Silver Seiko Ltd.">Silverette</a> model, manufactured by <a href="/wiki/Silver_Seiko_Ltd." class="mw-redirect" title="Silver Seiko Ltd.">Silver Seiko Ltd.</a> of Japan. </p><p>The success of Sears outdoor products raised the attention of the Federal Government and the antitrust laws. Sears purchased David Bradley to manufacture farm and lawn equipment. Its success was broken up in 1962 as they sold more plows than John Deere.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sears sold half of the David Bradley factory in Bradley, Illinois to the Newark Ohio Company that was shortly acquired by Roper Industries. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1970s_pinnacle">1970s pinnacle</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 1970s pinnacle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sears reached its pinnacle in the 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1974, Sears completed the 110-story <a href="/wiki/Willis_Tower" title="Willis Tower">Sears Tower</a> in Chicago, which became the <a href="/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_the_world#Tallest_buildings" class="mw-redirect" title="List of tallest buildings and structures in the world">world's tallest building</a>, a title it took from the former <a href="/wiki/World_Trade_Center_(1973%E2%80%932001)" title="World Trade Center (1973–2001)">Twin Towers</a> in New York. Upon moving out of Chicago, Sears sold the Sears Tower in 1988.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the sale contract of the tower, Sears retained its naming rights to the building until 2003, but the Sears Tower retained the name until early 2009, when London-based insurer <a href="/wiki/Willis_Group_Holdings" class="mw-redirect" title="Willis Group Holdings">Willis Group Holdings, Ltd.</a> was given the building's naming rights to encourage them to occupy the building.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sears moved to the new Prairie Stone Business Park in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, between 1993 and 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Sears_Centre" class="mw-redirect" title="Sears Centre">Sears Centre</a> is a 10,001-seat multi-purpose arena located in Hoffman Estates adjacent to the Prairie Stone campus.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mail_order">Mail order</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Mail order"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Sears catalog became known in the industry as "the Consumers' Bible".<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company began selling to foreign customers after the American occupation of <a href="/wiki/Greenland_in_World_War_II" title="Greenland in World War II">Greenland in World War II</a> and the Philippines, among others, when locals ordered from catalogs left by soldiers.<sup id="cite_ref-lockhart20191227_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lockhart20191227-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Novelists and story writers often portrayed the importance of the catalog in the emotional lives of rural folk. The catalog also entered the language, particularly of rural dwellers, as a <a href="/wiki/Euphemism" title="Euphemism">euphemism</a> for toilet paper, as its pages could be torn out and used as such.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, for many rural African-Americans, especially in areas dominated by <a href="/wiki/Jim_Crow" class="mw-redirect" title="Jim Crow">Jim Crow</a> <a href="/wiki/Racial_segregation" title="Racial segregation">racial segregation</a>, the Sears catalog was a vital retail alternative to local white-population-dominated stores, bypassing the stores' frequent intention to deny them fair access to their merchandise.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, as the nation urbanized, Sears's catalog business faced competition from city department stores. Rural America's population was slow-growing and possessed far less spending power than urban America. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Decline">Decline</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Decline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:KM_5939_sears_tower_august_2007_B.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/KM_5939_sears_tower_august_2007_B.jpg/170px-KM_5939_sears_tower_august_2007_B.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="340" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/KM_5939_sears_tower_august_2007_B.jpg/255px-KM_5939_sears_tower_august_2007_B.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/KM_5939_sears_tower_august_2007_B.jpg/340px-KM_5939_sears_tower_august_2007_B.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1597" data-file-height="3196" /></a><figcaption>The former Sears Tower, now the <a href="/wiki/Willis_Tower" title="Willis Tower">Willis Tower</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In the 1980s, the company began to diversify into non-retail entities such as buying <a href="/wiki/Dean_Witter" class="mw-redirect" title="Dean Witter">Dean Witter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Coldwell_Banker" title="Coldwell Banker">Coldwell Banker</a> in 1981. In 1984, it launched <a href="/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)" title="Prodigy (online service)">Prodigy</a> as a joint venture with <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a>, and introduced the <a href="/wiki/Discover_Card" title="Discover Card">Discover credit card</a> in 1985. However, these actions have been said to have distracted management's attention from the core retail business and allowed competing retailers to gain significant ground, culminating with <a href="/wiki/Walmart" title="Walmart">Walmart</a> surpassing Sears as the largest retailer in the United States in 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1990s, the company began divesting itself of many non-retail entities, which were detrimental to its bottom line. Sears spun off its financial services arm, which included brokerage business Dean Witter Reynolds and Discover Card. It sold its mall building subsidiary Homart to <a href="/wiki/General_Growth_Properties" class="mw-redirect" title="General Growth Properties">General Growth Properties</a> in 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-npr1_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-npr1-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sears later acquired hardware chain <a href="/wiki/Orchard_Supply_Hardware" title="Orchard Supply Hardware">Orchard Supply Hardware</a> in 1996 and started home improvement store The Great Indoors in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The cost of distributing the once highly influential general merchandise catalog became prohibitive; sales and profits had declined. The company discontinued the catalog in 1993. It dismissed 50,000 workers who had filled the orders.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_42-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1992, the company posted a $3.9 billion loss, the largest ever from an American retailer.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1992, California successfully sued the company for falsely finding things wrong with automobiles in for repair for other reasons.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1997, criminal charges were made.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1998, Sears announced it had sold the remnants of Western Auto (which it had acquired in 1998) to <a href="/wiki/Roanoke,_Virginia" title="Roanoke, Virginia">Roanoke</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Advance_Auto_Parts" title="Advance Auto Parts">Advance Auto Parts</a>. The business deal was not what experts in the <a href="/wiki/Aftermarket_(merchandise)" title="Aftermarket (merchandise)">after-market</a> automotive industry expected: Sears, Roebuck became "one of the largest shareholders" after obtaining a 40% stake in Advance Auto Parts and merging their two store networks, which included Western Auto's wholesale and retail operations. The existing store network of Advance Auto Parts, comprising 915 stores in 17 U.S. states, merged with 590 U.S.-based Parts America Stores in addition to 40 Western Auto stores in the <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Commonwealth of Puerto Rico</a>. In 1997, Sears sold 85% of <a href="/wiki/Sears_(Mexico)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sears (Mexico)">its Mexico affiliate</a> to <a href="/wiki/Grupo_Carso" title="Grupo Carso">Grupo Carso</a>. Sears Holdings continued to produce specialty catalogs and reintroduced a smaller version of the Holiday Wish Book in 2007.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="Cannot follow this clearly (December 2021)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 2003, Sears sold its U.S. retail credit card operation to <a href="/wiki/Citibank" title="Citibank">Citibank</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The remaining card operations for Sears Canada were sold to <a href="/wiki/JPMorgan_Chase" title="JPMorgan Chase">JPMorgan Chase</a> in August 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-ct-2005sep01_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ct-2005sep01-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2003, Sears opened a new concept store called Sears Grand. Sears Grand stores carried everything that a regular Sears carries, and more. Sears Grand stores were about 175,000 to 225,000 square feet (16,300 to 20,900 m<sup>2</sup>). </p><p>On November 17, 2004, Kmart Holdings Corporation announced it would acquire Sears, Roebuck, and Co. for $11 billion after Kmart completed its recovery from bankruptcy.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a part of the acquisition, Kmart Holding Corporation, along with Sears, Roebuck, and Co., was transformed into the new <a href="/wiki/Sears_Holdings_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Sears Holdings Corporation">Sears Holdings Corporation</a>. The new company started trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange as SHLD; Sears sold its single-letter ticker symbol 'S' in the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange" title="New York Stock Exchange">New York Stock Exchange</a> that it had held since 1910 to <a href="/wiki/Sprint_Corporation" title="Sprint Corporation">Sprint Corporation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new corporation announced that it would continue to operate stores under both the Sears and Kmart brands. In 2005, the company began renovating some Kmart stores and converting them to the Sears Essentials format, only to change them later to Sears Grands.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The combined company's profits peaked at $1.5 billion in 2006. </p><p>By 2010, the company was no longer profitable; from 2011 to 2016, the company lost $10.4 billion. In 2014, its total debt ($4.2 billion at the end of January 2017) exceeded its market capitalization ($974.1 million as of March 21, 2017). Sears declined from more than 3,500 physical stores to 695 U.S. stores from 2010 to 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-number_stores_q4_2016_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-number_stores_q4_2016-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sales at Sears stores dropped 10.3 percent in the final quarter of 2016 when compared to the same period in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sears spent much of 2014 and 2015 selling off portions of its balance sheet; namely, <a href="/wiki/Lands%27_End" title="Lands' End">Lands' End</a> and its stake in <a href="/wiki/Sears_Canada" title="Sears Canada">Sears Canada</a>, one of the biggest e-commerce players in Canada, with <a href="/wiki/Canadian_dollar" title="Canadian dollar">Can$</a>505 million in sales in 2015—more than Walmart and others who had begun pushing aggressively into online sales, such as <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Tire" title="Canadian Tire">Canadian Tire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sears_Holdings_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sears_Holdings-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sears stated that the company was looking to focus on becoming a more tech-driven retailer. Sears's CEO and top shareholder said the sell-off of key assets in the last year had given the retailer the money it needs to speed up its transformation.<sup id="cite_ref-Sears_Holdings_64-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sears_Holdings-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sears Holdings had lost a total of US$7 billion in the four years to 2015. In part, the retailer was trying to curb losses by using a loyalty program called Shop Your Way.<sup id="cite_ref-Sears_Holdings_64-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sears_Holdings-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sears believed the membership scheme would enhance repeat business and customer loyalty in the long term.<sup id="cite_ref-Sears_Holdings_64-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sears_Holdings-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>CEO <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Lampert" title="Eddie Lampert">Eddie Lampert</a> also concluded an arrangement that sold the Craftsman brand to <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Black_%26_Decker" title="Stanley Black & Decker">Stanley Black & Decker Inc.</a> for approximately US$900 million.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2017, Sears and appliance manufacturer <a href="/wiki/Whirlpool_Corporation" title="Whirlpool Corporation">Whirlpool Corporation</a> ended their 101-year-old association, reportedly due to pricing issues, although Whirlpool continued supplying Sears with <a href="/wiki/Kenmore_(brand)" title="Kenmore (brand)">Kenmore</a>-branded appliances.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In May 2018, Sears announced it had formed a "special committee" to explore the sale of Kenmore.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bankruptcy_and_current_operations">Bankruptcy and current operations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Bankruptcy and current operations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ClosedSears2019.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/ClosedSears2019.jpg/220px-ClosedSears2019.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/ClosedSears2019.jpg/330px-ClosedSears2019.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/ClosedSears2019.jpg/440px-ClosedSears2019.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>A closed Sears store at <a href="/wiki/Stones_River_Town_Centre" title="Stones River Town Centre">Stones River Town Centre</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Murfreesboro,_Tennessee" title="Murfreesboro, Tennessee">Murfreesboro, Tennessee</a>, in April 2019, with signage still intact. The store closed two months earlier, in February 2019.</figcaption></figure> <p>On September 24, 2018, the retailer's CEO warned that the company was "running out of time" to salvage its business.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sears Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 15, 2018, ahead of a $134 million debt payment due that day.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On November 23, 2018, Sears Holdings released a list of 505 stores, including 266 Sears stores, that were for sale in the bankruptcy process, while all others would hold liquidation sales.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On January 16, 2019, Sears Holdings announced it would remain open after Lampert won a bankruptcy auction for the company with an offer to keep about 400 stores open.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On February 7, 2019, a bankruptcy judge approved a $5.2 billion plan by Sears's chairman and biggest shareholder to keep the business going. The approval meant roughly 425 stores, including 223 Sears stores, and 45,000 jobs would be preserved.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears_Home_%26_Life.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Sears_Home_%26_Life.jpg/220px-Sears_Home_%26_Life.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Sears_Home_%26_Life.jpg/330px-Sears_Home_%26_Life.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Sears_Home_%26_Life.jpg/440px-Sears_Home_%26_Life.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3682" data-file-height="2268" /></a><figcaption>A new Sears Home & Life store in <a href="/wiki/Lafayette,_Louisiana" title="Lafayette, Louisiana">Lafayette, Louisiana</a>, as depicted in November 2020. It closed in May 2023 along with all other remaining small-format Sears stores in the U.S.</figcaption></figure> <p>In April 2019, Sears announced the opening of three new stores with a limited set of merchandise under the name Sears Home & Life.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also that month, Sears closed its store at <a href="/wiki/Windward_Mall" title="Windward Mall">Windward Mall</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kaneohe,_Hawaii" title="Kaneohe, Hawaii">Kaneohe, Hawaii</a>, and its store at <a href="/wiki/Oakbrook_Center" title="Oakbrook Center">Oakbrook Center</a> in <a href="/wiki/Oak_Brook,_Illinois" title="Oak Brook, Illinois">Oak Brook, Illinois</a> (which was razed and already rebuilt as a 1-story store), making it the first post-bankruptcy closure for the brand since being bought by ESL.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On June 3, 2019, the company announced that <a href="/wiki/Transform_Holdco" class="mw-redirect" title="Transform Holdco">Transform Holdco</a> would acquire <a href="/wiki/Sears_Hometown_%26_Outlet_Stores" class="mw-redirect" title="Sears Hometown & Outlet Stores">Sears Hometown & Outlet Stores</a>. As per deal, it might need to divest its Sears Outlet division to gain approval.<sup id="cite_ref-WBBM_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WBBM-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On August 6, 2019, it was announced that 26 stores would close that October, including 21 Sears stores, among them the last Sears stores in <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a> and <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Riverchase_Galleria" title="Riverchase Galleria">Riverchase Galleria</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hoover,_Alabama" title="Hoover, Alabama">Hoover</a> and at <a href="/wiki/Huntington_Mall" title="Huntington Mall">Huntington Mall</a> in <a href="/wiki/Barboursville,_West_Virginia" title="Barboursville, West Virginia">Barboursville</a>, respectively. The announcement also included plans to "accelerate the expansion of our smaller store formats which includes opening additional Home & Life stores and adding several hundred Sears Hometown stores after the Sears Hometown and Outlet transaction closes."<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On August 31, 2019, management announced that Transform would close an additional 92 stores, including 15 Sears stores, by the end of 2019. Near the end of 2019, Sears sold the brand name <a href="/wiki/DieHard_(brand)" title="DieHard (brand)">DieHard</a> to Advance Auto Parts for $200 million.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A total of 100 more stores closed by January 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 51 Sears stores were closed in February 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More stores continued to close throughout 2020 and 2021, including the final Sears in Maine at The Maine Mall. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears_-_Woodfield_Mall_(last_day).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Sears_-_Woodfield_Mall_%28last_day%29.jpg/220px-Sears_-_Woodfield_Mall_%28last_day%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Sears_-_Woodfield_Mall_%28last_day%29.jpg/330px-Sears_-_Woodfield_Mall_%28last_day%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Sears_-_Woodfield_Mall_%28last_day%29.jpg/440px-Sears_-_Woodfield_Mall_%28last_day%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>The Sears store at <a href="/wiki/Woodfield_Mall" title="Woodfield Mall">Woodfield Mall</a> in <a href="/wiki/Schaumburg,_Illinois" title="Schaumburg, Illinois">Schaumburg, Illinois</a>, the last <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a> Sears store to close on November 14, 2021</figcaption></figure> <p>In September 2021, the company's website listed 35 Sears stores.<sup id="cite_ref-Thomas_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomas-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That month, Sears announced that it would close more stores, including the last Sears store in New York City. The New York City Sears closed by November 24, 2021, with the potential to be redeveloped.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Transformco announced in December 2021 its plans to sell the 2.3 million-square-foot Sears headquarters in Hoffman Estates, which includes 100 acres of undeveloped land.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On January 19, 2022, Sears shut the remaining 15 Sears Auto Centers in the United States with a message on the Sears Auto Center website stating: "Auto Centers have closed for business. We appreciate your patronage over the years. If you have any questions concerning warranty claims, please visit us at Sears Help."<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2022, it was announced that roughly 100 more Sears Hometown stores, including the last four in Michigan, would close permanently.<sup id="cite_ref-Rahal_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rahal-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On December 13, 2022, Sears Hometown filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.<sup id="cite_ref-Valinsky_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Valinsky-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was later revealed that all remaining Sears Hometown stores would be liquidated and permanently closed.<sup id="cite_ref-Coleman_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Coleman-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of September 2024,<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> there are nine Sears stores remaining, with eight in the mainland U.S. and one location in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.<sup id="cite_ref-brostocks_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brostocks-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company's U.S. website, Sears.com, remains active for online purchases.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Corporate_affairs">Corporate affairs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Corporate affairs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Logo">Logo</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Logo"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 80px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears,_Robuck_%26_Co._letterhead_1907.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo used in 1907"><img alt="Logo used in 1907" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Sears%2C_Robuck_%26_Co._letterhead_1907.jpg/120px-Sears%2C_Robuck_%26_Co._letterhead_1907.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="49" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Sears%2C_Robuck_%26_Co._letterhead_1907.jpg/180px-Sears%2C_Robuck_%26_Co._letterhead_1907.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Sears%2C_Robuck_%26_Co._letterhead_1907.jpg/240px-Sears%2C_Robuck_%26_Co._letterhead_1907.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4268" data-file-height="1739" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Logo used in 1907</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 80px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears_Logo_1966.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo used from 1966 to 1984"><img alt="Logo used from 1966 to 1984" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Sears_Logo_1966.svg/109px-Sears_Logo_1966.svg.png" decoding="async" width="109" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Sears_Logo_1966.svg/163px-Sears_Logo_1966.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Sears_Logo_1966.svg/217px-Sears_Logo_1966.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="236" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Logo used from 1966 to 1984</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 80px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears_Logo_1984.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo used from 1984 to 1994"><img alt="Logo used from 1984 to 1994" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Sears_Logo_1984.png/120px-Sears_Logo_1984.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="26" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Sears_Logo_1984.png/180px-Sears_Logo_1984.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Sears_Logo_1984.png/240px-Sears_Logo_1984.png 2x" data-file-width="949" data-file-height="206" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Logo used from 1984 to 1994</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 80px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears_Logo_1994.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo used from 1994 to 2004; a red version of this logo is still used by Sears Mexico."><img alt="Logo used from 1994 to 2004; a red version of this logo is still used by Sears Mexico." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Sears_Logo_1994.svg/120px-Sears_Logo_1994.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="29" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Sears_Logo_1994.svg/180px-Sears_Logo_1994.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Sears_Logo_1994.svg/240px-Sears_Logo_1994.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1680" data-file-height="403" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Logo used from 1994 to 2004; a red version of this logo is still used by <a href="/wiki/Sears_Mexico" title="Sears Mexico">Sears Mexico</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 80px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears_Logo_2004.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo used from 2004 to 2010 in the United States"><img alt="Logo used from 2004 to 2010 in the United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Sears_Logo_2004.svg/120px-Sears_Logo_2004.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Sears_Logo_2004.svg/180px-Sears_Logo_2004.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Sears_Logo_2004.svg/240px-Sears_Logo_2004.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="249" data-file-height="71" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Logo used from 2004 to 2010 in the United States</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 80px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears_Logo_2010.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo used from 2010 to 2019"><img alt="Logo used from 2010 to 2019" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Sears_Logo_2010.svg/120px-Sears_Logo_2010.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Sears_Logo_2010.svg/180px-Sears_Logo_2010.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Sears_Logo_2010.svg/240px-Sears_Logo_2010.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="85" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Logo used from 2010 to 2019</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 80px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears_logo_(2020).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo used from 2020 to Present"><img alt="Logo used from 2020 to Present" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Sears_logo_%282020%29.svg/120px-Sears_logo_%282020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="27" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Sears_logo_%282020%29.svg/180px-Sears_logo_%282020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Sears_logo_%282020%29.svg/240px-Sears_logo_%282020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="176" data-file-height="40" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Logo used from 2020 to Present</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sponsorships">Sponsorships</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Sponsorships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before the company filed for bankruptcy, Sears sponsored many entertainment and sporting events. </p><p>From 2006 until 2020, it had the naming rights to an 11,000-seat multi-purpose family entertainment, cultural and sports center in Hoffman Estates, the <a href="/wiki/Now_Arena" title="Now Arena">Now Arena</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The company sponsored the television series <i><a href="/wiki/Extreme_Makeover:_Home_Edition" title="Extreme Makeover: Home Edition">Extreme Makeover: Home Edition</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company also underwrote the <a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a> television series <i><a href="/wiki/Mister_Rogers%27_Neighborhood" title="Mister Rogers' Neighborhood">Mister Rogers' Neighborhood</a></i>, under the name The Sears-Roebuck Foundation, from the show's premiere in 1968 until 1992.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Through the Sears Auto Centers, the company sponsored the Formula Drift Darren McNamara Sears/Falken Saturn Sky drift car.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> It sponsored the <a href="/wiki/Camping_World_Truck_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="Camping World Truck Series">NASCAR Truck Series</a>, using the Craftsman brand as the title sponsor, from the series' inception in the <a href="/wiki/1995_NASCAR_SuperTruck_Series_presented_by_Craftsman" class="mw-redirect" title="1995 NASCAR SuperTruck Series presented by Craftsman">1995 NASCAR SuperTruck Series presented by Craftsman</a> to the <a href="/wiki/2008_NASCAR_Craftsman_Truck_Series" title="2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series">2008 season</a>, when the agreement ended.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It sponsored the #10 <a href="/wiki/Gillett_Evernham_Motorsports" class="mw-redirect" title="Gillett Evernham Motorsports">Gillett Evernham Motorsports</a> car of Scott Riggs for the September 2, 2007, running of the <a href="/wiki/Sharp_AQUOS_500" class="mw-redirect" title="Sharp AQUOS 500">Sharp AQUOS 500</a> at <a href="/wiki/California_Speedway" class="mw-redirect" title="California Speedway">California Speedway</a> through its Sears Auto Center branch.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> However, Riggs failed to qualify for the event. In 2016, Craftsman became the title sponsor of the World Racing Group, World of Outlaws Sprint car racing series.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (September 2021)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Employee_relations">Employee relations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Employee relations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears_Centro_Historico.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Sears_Centro_Historico.jpg/220px-Sears_Centro_Historico.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Sears_Centro_Historico.jpg/330px-Sears_Centro_Historico.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Sears_Centro_Historico.jpg/440px-Sears_Centro_Historico.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1861" /></a><figcaption>Sears building in the <a href="/wiki/Edificio_La_Nacional" title="Edificio La Nacional">Edificio La Nacional</a> building in <a href="/wiki/Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a>, across from the <a href="/wiki/Palacio_de_Bellas_Artes" title="Palacio de Bellas Artes">Palacio de Bellas Artes</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Sears has struggled with employee relations. One notable example was the shift in 1992 from an hourly wage based on longevity to a base wage (usually between US$3.50 and US$6 per hour) and commissions ranging from 0.5% to 11%. Sears said the new base wage, often constituting a substantial (up to 40%) cut in pay, was done "to be successful in this highly competitive environment".<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In early October 2007, Sears cut commission rates for employees in some departments to between 0.5% and 4% but equalized the base wage across all Home Improvement and Electronics departments. In 2011, commission rates on non-base items were cut by 2% in the electronics department. In late 2009, the electronic department's commission on "base items" was cut to 1%. As of 2017, appliances is the only remaining department where compensation is based entirely on commission. Other departments give a base pay plus commission. In many stores, jewelry department associates receive a low base salary with a 1% commission on their sales. </p><p>In March 2019, Sears said that it was ending <a href="/wiki/Life_insurance" title="Life insurance">life insurance</a> benefits for an undisclosed number of its 90,000 retirees. A few months earlier, the company had handed out over $25 million in bonuses to executives.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This key Sears Retiree Benefit was worth between $5,000 and $15,000 for most of the pool (29,000) of eligible retired employees.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2019, former Sears Holdings chairman and CEO <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Lampert" title="Eddie Lampert">Eddie Lampert</a>, months after purchasing the remains of Sears from the holding company, threatened not to pay out the $43 million in pension payments<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> owed to 90,000 former Sears and Kmart employees and retirees.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <i><a href="/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a></i> editorial pointed out that <a href="/wiki/Steven_Mnuchin" title="Steven Mnuchin">Steven Mnuchin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_the_Treasury" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of the Treasury">Secretary of the Treasury</a> at the time, was a board member of Sears Holding until 2016 and was, at the time, one of three directors of the <a href="/wiki/Pension_Benefit_Guaranty_Corporation" title="Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation">Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation</a>, which manages administration of pensions for defunct or bankrupt businesses.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears_PDN.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Mall entrance to the Sears store at Plaza del Norte in Hatillo, Puerto Rico, in 2011. This store closed in April 2021."><img alt="Mall entrance to the Sears store at Plaza del Norte in Hatillo, Puerto Rico, in 2011. This store closed in April 2021." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Sears_PDN.jpg/120px-Sears_PDN.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="84" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Sears_PDN.jpg/180px-Sears_PDN.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Sears_PDN.jpg/240px-Sears_PDN.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1009" data-file-height="708" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Mall entrance to the Sears store at <a href="/wiki/Plaza_del_Norte" title="Plaza del Norte">Plaza del Norte</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hatillo,_Puerto_Rico" title="Hatillo, Puerto Rico">Hatillo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>, in 2011. This store closed in April 2021.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears_Auto_Center.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sears Auto Center at Steeplegate Mall in Concord, New Hampshire, in 2017. The Auto Center and the main store at this location closed in February 2020."><img alt="Sears Auto Center at Steeplegate Mall in Concord, New Hampshire, in 2017. The Auto Center and the main store at this location closed in February 2020." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Sears_Auto_Center.jpg/120px-Sears_Auto_Center.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Sears_Auto_Center.jpg/180px-Sears_Auto_Center.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Sears_Auto_Center.jpg/240px-Sears_Auto_Center.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="3456" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Sears Auto Center at <a href="/wiki/Steeplegate_Mall" title="Steeplegate Mall">Steeplegate Mall</a> in <a href="/wiki/Concord,_New_Hampshire" title="Concord, New Hampshire">Concord, New Hampshire</a>, in 2017. The Auto Center and the main store at this location closed in February 2020.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:2006_Sears_Hawthorn_Center.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Exterior of the Sears at the Westfield Hawthorn in Vernon Hills, Illinois, in 2006. This location closed in August 2018 and was demolished in 2021."><img alt="Exterior of the Sears at the Westfield Hawthorn in Vernon Hills, Illinois, in 2006. This location closed in August 2018 and was demolished in 2021." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/2006_Sears_Hawthorn_Center.jpg/120px-2006_Sears_Hawthorn_Center.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/2006_Sears_Hawthorn_Center.jpg/180px-2006_Sears_Hawthorn_Center.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/2006_Sears_Hawthorn_Center.jpg/240px-2006_Sears_Hawthorn_Center.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Exterior of the Sears at the <a href="/wiki/Westfield_Hawthorn" class="mw-redirect" title="Westfield Hawthorn">Westfield Hawthorn</a> in <a href="/wiki/Vernon_Hills,_Illinois" title="Vernon Hills, Illinois">Vernon Hills, Illinois</a>, in 2006. This location closed in August 2018 and was demolished in 2021.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1.8.09ParamusParkMallByLuigiNovi3.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Mall entrance to the former Sears at Paramus Park in Paramus, New Jersey, in 2009. This location closed in 2018."><img alt="Mall entrance to the former Sears at Paramus Park in Paramus, New Jersey, in 2009. This location closed in 2018." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/1.8.09ParamusParkMallByLuigiNovi3.jpg/113px-1.8.09ParamusParkMallByLuigiNovi3.jpg" decoding="async" width="113" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/1.8.09ParamusParkMallByLuigiNovi3.jpg/169px-1.8.09ParamusParkMallByLuigiNovi3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/1.8.09ParamusParkMallByLuigiNovi3.jpg/225px-1.8.09ParamusParkMallByLuigiNovi3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="751" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Mall entrance to the former Sears at <a href="/wiki/Paramus_Park" title="Paramus Park">Paramus Park</a> in <a href="/wiki/Paramus,_New_Jersey" title="Paramus, New Jersey">Paramus, New Jersey</a>, in 2009. This location closed in 2018.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears,_Roebuck_and_Company_Warehouse_and_Service_Center_--_Houston,_Texas.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sears, Roebuck and Company Warehouse and Service Center in Houston, Texas, in August 2020. On the National Register of Historic Places"><img alt="Sears, Roebuck and Company Warehouse and Service Center in Houston, Texas, in August 2020. On the National Register of Historic Places" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Sears%2C_Roebuck_and_Company_Warehouse_and_Service_Center_--_Houston%2C_Texas.jpg/120px-Sears%2C_Roebuck_and_Company_Warehouse_and_Service_Center_--_Houston%2C_Texas.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="55" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Sears%2C_Roebuck_and_Company_Warehouse_and_Service_Center_--_Houston%2C_Texas.jpg/180px-Sears%2C_Roebuck_and_Company_Warehouse_and_Service_Center_--_Houston%2C_Texas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Sears%2C_Roebuck_and_Company_Warehouse_and_Service_Center_--_Houston%2C_Texas.jpg/240px-Sears%2C_Roebuck_and_Company_Warehouse_and_Service_Center_--_Houston%2C_Texas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6050" data-file-height="2770" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Sears, Roebuck and Company Warehouse and Service Center in <a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>, in August 2020. On the National Register of Historic Places</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Searsessentials.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Exterior of the Sears Essentials in Palm Springs, Florida, in 2010 (reopened as Sears Outlet and closed)"><img alt="Exterior of the Sears Essentials in Palm Springs, Florida, in 2010 (reopened as Sears Outlet and closed)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Searsessentials.jpg/120px-Searsessentials.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Searsessentials.jpg/180px-Searsessentials.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Searsessentials.jpg/240px-Searsessentials.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Exterior of the Sears Essentials in <a href="/wiki/Palm_Springs,_Florida" title="Palm Springs, Florida">Palm Springs, Florida</a>, in 2010 (reopened as Sears Outlet and closed)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears_grand_tarentum.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="2013 photo of the mall entrance to the Sears Grand at Pittsburgh Mills in Tarentum, Pennsylvania. This Sears closed in January 2015."><img alt="2013 photo of the mall entrance to the Sears Grand at Pittsburgh Mills in Tarentum, Pennsylvania. This Sears closed in January 2015." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Sears_grand_tarentum.JPG/120px-Sears_grand_tarentum.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Sears_grand_tarentum.JPG/180px-Sears_grand_tarentum.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Sears_grand_tarentum.JPG/240px-Sears_grand_tarentum.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4320" data-file-height="3240" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">2013 photo of the mall entrance to the Sears Grand at <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Mills" title="Pittsburgh Mills">Pittsburgh Mills</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tarentum,_Pennsylvania" title="Tarentum, Pennsylvania">Tarentum, Pennsylvania</a>. This Sears closed in January 2015.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears_Parts_Repair_Brooklyn.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Exterior of the Sears Parts & Repair Store in Brooklyn, Ohio, in 2012"><img alt="Exterior of the Sears Parts & Repair Store in Brooklyn, Ohio, in 2012" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Sears_Parts_Repair_Brooklyn.JPG/120px-Sears_Parts_Repair_Brooklyn.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Sears_Parts_Repair_Brooklyn.JPG/180px-Sears_Parts_Repair_Brooklyn.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Sears_Parts_Repair_Brooklyn.JPG/240px-Sears_Parts_Repair_Brooklyn.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4320" data-file-height="3240" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Exterior of the Sears Parts & Repair Store in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn,_Ohio" title="Brooklyn, Ohio">Brooklyn, Ohio</a>, in 2012</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sears_Coral_Gables_(Miami,_Florida)_still_open_19_March_2022_-_23.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Inside a Sears Store at Coral Gables in Miami, Florida, in 2022, one of the few remaining Sears stores"><img alt="Inside a Sears Store at Coral Gables in Miami, Florida, in 2022, one of the few remaining Sears stores" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Sears_Coral_Gables_%28Miami%2C_Florida%29_still_open_19_March_2022_-_23.jpg/120px-Sears_Coral_Gables_%28Miami%2C_Florida%29_still_open_19_March_2022_-_23.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Sears_Coral_Gables_%28Miami%2C_Florida%29_still_open_19_March_2022_-_23.jpg/180px-Sears_Coral_Gables_%28Miami%2C_Florida%29_still_open_19_March_2022_-_23.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Sears_Coral_Gables_%28Miami%2C_Florida%29_still_open_19_March_2022_-_23.jpg/240px-Sears_Coral_Gables_%28Miami%2C_Florida%29_still_open_19_March_2022_-_23.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Inside a Sears Store at Coral Gables in <a href="/wiki/Miami" title="Miami">Miami</a>, <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>, in 2022, one of the few remaining Sears stores</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 26,</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=History+of+Sears%2C+Roebuck%2C+and+Company+and+the+Willis+%28Sears%29+Tower&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Fvideo%2F187611%2Fdiscussion-history-Sears-Roebuck-and-Company-Willis&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASears" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChannick" class="citation news cs1">Channick, Robert. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-sears-selling-hoffman-estates-headquarters-20211216-qb4gkujqebemxfg7fkgvzdop2u-story.html">"Sears plans to sell Hoffman Estates headquarters"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 26,</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Chicago+Tribune&rft.atitle=Sears+plans+to+sell+Hoffman+Estates+headquarters&rft.aulast=Channick&rft.aufirst=Robert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagotribune.com%2Fbusiness%2Fct-biz-sears-selling-hoffman-estates-headquarters-20211216-qb4gkujqebemxfg7fkgvzdop2u-story.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASears" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Valinsky-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Valinsky_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Valinsky_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFValinsky2022" class="citation news cs1">Valinsky, Jordan (December 13, 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/business/sears-hometown-bankruptcy/index.html">"Sears Hometown files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection"</a>. <i>CNN</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 16,</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=CNN&rft.atitle=Sears+Hometown+files+for+Chapter+11+bankruptcy+protection&rft.date=2022-12-13&rft.aulast=Valinsky&rft.aufirst=Jordan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2022%2F12%2F13%2Fbusiness%2Fsears-hometown-bankruptcy%2Findex.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASears" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tctimes.com/news/last-sears-in-michigan-preparing-to-close/article_2af6430e-8bb8-11ed-8fad-2b6cc33a6303.html">"Last Sears in Michigan preparing to close"</a>. <i>Tri-County Times</i>. January 3, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">October 25,</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Tri-County+Times&rft.atitle=Last+Sears+in+Michigan+preparing+to+close&rft.date=2023-01-03&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tctimes.com%2Fnews%2Flast-sears-in-michigan-preparing-to-close%2Farticle_2af6430e-8bb8-11ed-8fad-2b6cc33a6303.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASears" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-SVMuseum-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-SVMuseum_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SVMuseum_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.springvalleymnmuseum.org/wildersears.html">Richard Sears</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181109035815/http://www.springvalleymnmuseum.org/wildersears.html">Archived</a> November 9, 2018, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Spring Valley Methodist Church Museum, Accessed January 17, 2011.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-W-Sears">"Richard W. Sears – American merchant"</a>. <i>Encyclopædia Britannica</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171204065140/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-W-Sears">Archived</a> from the original on December 4, 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 3,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Richard+W.+Sears+%E2%80%93+American+merchant&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Fbiography%2FRichard-W-Sears&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASears" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKriebel" class="citation web cs1">Kriebel, Bob. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jconline.com/story/news/history/2016/12/09/sears-co-founder-got-start-fixing-watches/94190600/">"Sears co-founder got start fixing watches"</a>. <i>Journal and Courier</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">April 28,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Journal+and+Courier&rft.atitle=Sears+co-founder+got+start+fixing+watches&rft.aulast=Kriebel&rft.aufirst=Bob&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jconline.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fhistory%2F2016%2F12%2F09%2Fsears-co-founder-got-start-fixing-watches%2F94190600%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASears" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFClymer1950" class="citation book cs1">Clymer, Floyd (1950). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/treasuryofearlya00clym/page/90/mode/2up?q=sears"><i>Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877–1925</i></a>. New York: Bonanza. p. 90.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Treasury+of+Early+American+Automobiles%2C+1877%E2%80%931925&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=90&rft.pub=Bonanza&rft.date=1950&rft.aulast=Clymer&rft.aufirst=Floyd&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ftreasuryofearlya00clym%2Fpage%2F90%2Fmode%2F2up%3Fq%3Dsears&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASears" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.searsarchives.com/history/history1890s.htm">"Sears History – 1890s."</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110803132140/http://www.searsarchives.com/history/history1890s.htm">Archived</a> August 3, 2011, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <i>Sears</i>. Last updated September 27, 2004.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLehr2013" class="citation book cs1">Lehr, Louis A. Jr. (October 17, 2013). <i>Arnstein & Lehr LLP, The First 120 Years: A Foundation for the Future</i>. 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L. Morris (2007). "Attention Shoppers: 1906 Sears IPO Heralds the Triumph of the Consumer Economy". <i>Financial History</i>. Issue 88, pp 20–36.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOharenkoHoman_Arthington_Foundation2006" class="citation book cs1">Oharenko, John; Homan Arthington Foundation (March 29, 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tmJp_M57rkwC&q=Historic+Sears%2C+Roebuck+and+Co.+Catalog+Plant"><i>Historic Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog Plant</i></a>. 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(May 23, 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=W_n_etmAykoC&q=death"><i>Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck And Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South</i></a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 26,</span> 2022</span>. <q>Sears is currently a 100% Mexican company and has more than seventy-five stores throughout the country. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 26,</span> 2022</span>. <q>Two years later the show was distributed to several public television stations on the East Coast and nationally in 1968, with the sponsorship of the Sears-Roebuck Foundation.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Chicago+Tribune&rft.atitle=Neighborhood+Hero&rft.date=1988-03-06&rft.aulast=Ogintz&rft.aufirst=Eileen&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagotribune.com%2Fnews%2Fct-xpm-1988-03-06-8804050228-story.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASears" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-92"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-92">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/388059.html">"Craftsman Dropping Sponsorship of NASCAR Truck Series"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Kansas_City_Star" title="The Kansas City Star">The Kansas City Star</a></i>. 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February 13, 1992.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-95"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-95">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFolley2019" class="citation news cs1">Folley, Aris (March 30, 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thehill.com/policy/finance/436593-sears-cuts-life-insurance-benefits-for-up-to-90000-retirees">"Sears cutting life insurance benefits for up to 90,000 retirees: report"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hill_(newspaper)" title="The Hill (newspaper)">The Hill</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190403033923/https://thehill.com/policy/finance/436593-sears-cuts-life-insurance-benefits-for-up-to-90000-retirees">Archived</a> from the original on April 3, 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Harrington Jr. (December 1998). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226245995_Organizational_Structure_and_Firm_Innovation_in_a_Retail_Chain">"Organizational structure and firm innovation in a retail chain"</a>. <i>Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory</i> 3.4: 267–288. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1023%2FA%3A1009657511505">10.1023/A:1009657511505</a>. Compares Sears's Robert E. Wood with Montgomery Ward's Sewell Avery.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCreswell2017" class="citation news cs1">Creswell, Julie (August 11, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/business/the-incredible-shrinking-sears.html">"The Incredible Shrinking Sears"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331">0362-4331</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=The+Incredible+Shrinking+Sears&rft.date=2017-08-11&rft.issn=0362-4331&rft.aulast=Creswell&rft.aufirst=Julie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F08%2F11%2Fbusiness%2Fthe-incredible-shrinking-sears.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASears" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Emmet, Boris, and John E. Jeuck. <i>Catalogues and counters: A history of Sears Roebuck and Company</i> (1950).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFIsrael1993" class="citation book cs1">Israel, Fred L. (1993). <i>1897 Sears, Roebuck, and Co Catalogue 100th Anniversary Edition</i>. Philadelphia: Chelsea House. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8775-4045-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8775-4045-8"><bdi>978-0-8775-4045-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=1897+Sears%2C+Roebuck%2C+and+Co+Catalogue+100th+Anniversary+Edition&rft.place=Philadelphia&rft.pub=Chelsea+House&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=978-0-8775-4045-8&rft.aulast=Israel&rft.aufirst=Fred+L.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASears" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKatz1987" class="citation book cs1">Katz, Donald R. (1987). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bigstoreinsidecr00katzrich/mode/2up"><i>The Big Store</i></a></span>. New York: Viking Press. pp. 272–273. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-6708-0512-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-6708-0512-9"><bdi>978-0-6708-0512-9</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 26,</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Big+Store&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=272-273&rft.pub=Viking+Press&rft.date=1987&rft.isbn=978-0-6708-0512-9&rft.aulast=Katz&rft.aufirst=Donald+R.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbigstoreinsidecr00katzrich%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASears" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWorthy1984" class="citation book cs1">Worthy, James C. (December 1984). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/shapingamericani00wort"><i>Shaping an American Institution: Robert E. Wood and Sears, Roebuck</i></a>. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-2520-1051-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-2520-1051-4"><bdi>978-0-2520-1051-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Shaping+an+American+Institution%3A+Robert+E.+Wood+and+Sears%2C+Roebuck&rft.place=Urbana&rft.pub=University+of+Illinois+Press&rft.date=1984-12&rft.isbn=978-0-2520-1051-4&rft.aulast=Worthy&rft.aufirst=James+C.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fshapingamericani00wort&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASears" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sears&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: External 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