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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Sears Closing Stores in 2016: Some Stores

Sears appears to have plans for closing approximately 50 stores.  According to a Sears press release from earlier this week regarding their fourth quarter performance, they mention, “We will accelerate the closing of unprofitable stores, including, but not limited to, roughly 50 stores that we recently announced would be closing in the next few months. We also intend to continue to evaluate and optimize our cost structure, including optimizing store-level marketing expenditures and overall staffing levels, and we will be taking action to reduce our fixed costs, and to improve our inventory management and gross margin realization.”

In regard to real estate, Sears reported that, “the sale of 266 properties to Seritage raised significant cash for Sears Holdings, which we used to reduce our debt, fund our pension plan and to absorb operating losses. While we do have lease obligations associated with the sale-leaseback transaction with Seritage, we expect the nature of the leases will lead to substantially reduced lease expense over the next few years. We expect that our rent obligations will decrease significantly as space in these stores is recaptured as permitted under the terms of the leases. We separate the reporting of the Seritage rent expense to allow investors and other stakeholders to better understand these costs and to allow them to track how the rents decline over time.”  You can learn more about Sears and the Seritage REIT from our previous blog post on the subject.

Sears Holdings is clearly having their challenges.  We at Apparel Search hope that the steps they are taking will guide them to a more profitable future.  Let’s hope.

You can read the full Sears Holdings Provides Fourth Quarter Financial Update press release from the Sears website.  If you wish to support Sears with the performance of their future financial reports, you can shop for clothing at Sears.


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