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Sears confirms that its Rego Park store will close

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Jan. 4, 2017 By Hannah Wulkan

The Sears department store at the Rego Park Center shopping mall will be closing down along with about 16 other Sears stores throughout the country, according to the company.

The company announced more than 30 Sears and K-Mart store closures late last month, but did not release a comprehensive list of locations. However, the Rego Park location at 96-05 Queens Boulevard was revealed as one of the stores that will be closing by the company today.

The Sears locations will begin liquidation sales on January 6 and will officially close the store by spring.

This latest round of closures comes after a 13 percent drop in revenue last quarter, and brings the number of stores Sears has closed in the past 12 months to over 200.

The company has closed more than 60 percent of its stores in the last five years. In 2011, there were more than 3,500 Sears stores nationwide, and the number has dropped to less than 1,500.

 

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Slavka perkovic

Oh I guess you can’t go shopping any more I hope will some other store will take over sears and Kmart I went to school elements school and Russell sage kha high school here and forest hills high school

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Slavka perkovic

I guessed that you don’t need to go shopping any more really for every thing because sears and Kmart are clothing stores well maybe some other store will take over sears and Kmart well I went to school here like elmententy jhs 190 and Forrest hills high school

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Slavka perkovic

My mother and I we had a stupid aunt and stupid cousin he is nothing like a jerk and a donkey from and fredie Kruger from elm street for years she thinks that Donald trump is a good president no he not look what he doing nobody vote for him

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Lena and slavka perkovic

This is good bye for sears and Kmart stores for two years my mother and I will miss sears and Kmart

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