Three North Texas Sears Department Stores To Close

Three Sears stores in North Texas cities are among the 72 Sears and Kmart stores slated for closure amid plunging sales losses for the retailer, the company announced Thursday.

The local stores on the chopping block are located in Denton, Fort Worth and Lewisville. You can see the store addresses below.

In addition to the North Texas locations, one store in Cedar Park, near Austin, and a Kmart store in Laredo are slated to be shuttered.

All told, up to 72 stores may close this year but company officials ultimately pared the list to evaluate other stores' financial performances at a later time.

North Texas stores to be closed:

• 2401 S. Stemmons Freeway, Lewisville
• 1800 Green Oaks Road, Fort Worth
• Golden Triangle Mall, Denton TX

Parent company Sears Holdings Corp. released a full list of closures on Thursday, saying only the 72 stores (including the one in Cedar Park) would close "in the near future." The company has closed nearly 400 stores in the past year, and now has 894 left — including the ones it's now closing.

The closures come after Sears merged with Kmart in 2005, when they combined with 3,500 store between them. The latest closures comes after the shuttering of 64 Kmart stores and 39 Sears locations that have already shut down this year, according to reports.

With the latest imminent closings, the company end the year with fewer than 1,000 locations throughout the U.S. The department store chain announced the latest list of corporate casualties while concurrently releasing its first-quarter earnings that reflected a 30 percent drop in sales in the latest reporting period. In a desperate bid to stem those losses, the company has closed hundreds of locations over the years amid hemorrhaging revenues.

To see the full list of stores to be closed, click here.

Patch editor Tony Cantu contributed to this report.
Lead image: The Sears logo is seen on the side of a store March 24, 2005 in San Bruno, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)