Sears closing 46 more stores, but not at Crown Center
Sears Holdings Corp. is closing another 13 Kmart stores and 33 Sears stores, as sales shrink and losses grow.
But the Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based retailer is not shuttering the Sears store at Washington Crown Center in North Franklin Township, or any store in Pennsylvania.
The ailing company said Thursday liquidation sales at the 46 unprofitable stores marked for closure will start next Thursday, and the stores will close in November. The company said it informed its workers.
The move comes as Sears is considering a bid from CEO Eddie Lampert’s hedge fund ESL Investments to acquire its jewel Kenmore appliances from the company for $400 million. The company had put others of its famous brands on the block before. In January, Sears had said it was closing 100 stores, then announced in May it was shutting another 100.
As of May 5, it had about 894 stores, down from about 1,000 at the end of last year. The number of stores peaked in 2012 at 4,000, which included the Sears Canada division that was later spun off. In 2005, when Sears merged with Kmart, it operated 2,200 stores.
Firm marks 10 years
Rivers Agile, an award-winning custom software development and strategic consulting firm in North Strabane Township, recently celebrated its 10th anniversary.
The company, founded by Ben Wilson, the chief executive officer, is located in the Ashwood Commons complex off Washington Road.
Gym enrolls students
The Little Gym of Pittsburgh-South Hills, located in Peters Township, is enrolling students up to age 12 for the 2018-2019 season. The gym is at 3909 Washington Road, Suite 205. For more information, contact owner Amy Martin at 724-941-0100 or tlgpittsburgh-southhillspa@thelittlegym.com, or visit either https://www.thelittlegym.com/PittsburghSouthHillsPA or www.TheLittleGym.com.
A ‘best lawyer’
K. Bradley Mellor, a construction law attorney with Bowles Rice Attorneys at Law at Southpointe, is included in the 2019 edition of Best Lawyers in America. Forty attorneys from five of the firm’s seven offices made the list. Bowles Rice is based in Charleston, W.Va.