[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Sears has closed its final store in Washington, leaving it operating in only four states across the US.
The department store, which was once the largest in the country, closed an outlet in the Southcenter Mall in Tukwila, Washington, on December 15.
In the weeks leading up to its closure, the store, which had been there for three decades, hosted discount sales for shoppers.
Its closure means that Sears only has eight stores remaining across Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Florida, Massachusetts and Texas.
Locals expressed their sadness at the store closing its doors.
'It's a landmark, it's something you grew up with, it's something you could trust,' Barbie Talamante, a former Sears staffer, told the Seattle NPR station KUOW-FM.
'As a little kid you'd go into a Sears store, your parents would buy the washers, dryers, paint, draperies, whatever.'
Talamante had worked at Sears for more than 10 years, and this is the second store she has had to see close down.
I can't understand it. For years Sears prospered by mailing out a catalog showcasing its products to its customers. They could order COD or go to the nearby Sears store. That was before the internet, so it was kind of like Amazon without the www... Uhhh... Never mind.
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