Once a retail giant comparable to Amazon, Walmart and Target, Sears is a husk of what it used to be.

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, WTOP presents “ 250 Years of America ,” a multipart series examining the ...

More than a century after it began as a mail-order powerhouse, Sears is down to just five full-line department stores in the United States. The company once operated more than 3,400 Sears and Kmart ...

Let’s say you’ve been tasked with explaining what a traditional shopping mall is to someone from the distant past, or distant future, who has stumbled into our timeline. The Francis Scott Key Mall in ...

The long-quiet expanse of parking and the old Sears footprint at Briarwood Mall is getting a second life as a four-story ...

Once a retail giant, Sears filed for bankruptcy on Monday after struggling with mounting debt and declining sales for years. Sears Holdings, the parent company of Sears and Kmart, filed under Chapter ...

Sears continues on its path to the retail graveyard. Late Friday night, Transformco, Sears’ parent company, quietly posted new “temporary store closing” employment positions at five of its namesake ...

“Sears has everything,” America’s once largest retail chain used to tell its shoppers during its heyday back in the early 1970s. These days the slowly-fading-away retailer would have to more aptly say ...