Kmart

What the impending closing of Sears means to the SouthCoast on an emotional level.

Fairhaven officials are trying a last-ditch effort to keep the local Kmart from closing. At last night's meeting, the Board of Selectmen read a letter sent to Kmart's parent company, Sears Holdings, hoping to convince the company to keep Kmart in Fairhaven...

Customers at the Fairhaven Kmart were shocked to hear the news that the store will be closing in April. WBSM News was there to speak with shoppers as they exited the store, to find out how its closing will affect them and their families as well as the local economy...

The Blue Light is about to go out for good on the Fairhaven Kmart. The store will close its doors in mid-April, selectmen confirmed to WBSM News on Wednesday. Howard Riefs, company spokesman for Sears Holdings told The Standard-Times that the company "has accelerated the closing of unprofitable stores...

A company official for Kmart confirmed Wednesday in an email to The Standard Times that Kmart in the Shaw's Plaza will close its doors in mid-April.

Sears Holdings has recently announced that they will be closing several Kmart stores in the upcoming year. Luckily, the Kmart in Fairhaven is not one of them.

In my What's New blog today, I'm saying so long to Fall River's New Harbour Mall officially. How many of you can remember when the mall opened back in 1971 featuring an 8 screen movie complex that was the cat's meow of its day! I remember doing Christmas telethons from there...

Sears stock is getting a boost on word of major cutbacks just in time for the holidays. Shares in Sears Holdings rose nearly five percent today after a report that the struggling retailer plans to lay off nearly 55-hundred employees and close dozens of stores -- many of them before Christmas...

Sears Holdings Corp. is announcing a data breach at its Kmart stores that started in early September. The parent company, which also operates Sears stores, says that Kmart's information technology team detected the breach on Thursday...