But talk of Sears’ demise may be premature: just two months ago, a previously shuttered Sears in Burbank, California, quietly turned the lights back on. Inside Sears’ revived Burbank storeThe reborn Sears in Burbank looks like a typical American department store. Today’s Sears’ footprint is minuscule, with no more than 12 Sears stores remaining in the continental US, according to data from Google Maps. A November post in the Union Gap, WA Facebook group confirmed that store location’s reopening. The Burbank store’s manager passed along a phone number for Sears’ media department; the number was not in service.

Source: CNN December 10, 2023 13:52 UTC