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4 Sears Stores To Close In North Carolina
Sears announced 80 more stores will shutter by March 2019, including a handful in North Carolina.
NORTH CAROLINA — Sears announced that it is closing 80 more stores. Of the shops on the latest list of locations to shutter, four are in North Carolina.
Sears Holdings, which owns both Sears and Kmart, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October. At the time it announced it would close 142 unprofitable locations.
The stores will host liquidation sales starting in two weeks, according to Sears, and will close for good in late March 2019.
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These are the North Carolina locations slated to shutter, according to the Dec. 28 closure list:
- Kmart, 110 112 Bost Rd, Morganton
- Kmart, 4841 Arendell St, Morehead City
- Sears, 1620 Guess Rd, Durham
- Sears, The Streets Of Southpoint, Durham
The Sears at 3320 Silas Creek Parkway in Winston-Salem will shutter in February 2019.
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As of spring 2019, there will be 11 remaining Sears stores — not including appliance outlets, HomeTown stores or auto centers — left in North Carolina:
- Burlington, NC
- Concord, NC
- Fayetteville, NC
- Goldsboro, NC
- Greensboro, NC
- Greenville, NC
- Hickory, NC
- Jacksonville, NC
- Pineville, NC
- Raleigh, NC — two locations
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