{"id":6161,"date":"2011-12-29T16:45:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T22:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismancafe.com\/blogs\/?p=6161"},"modified":"2017-04-17T09:27:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:27:57","slug":"sears-kmart-closing-100-stores-none-in-north-dakota-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/6161\/sears-kmart-closing-100-stores-none-in-north-dakota-so-far","title":{"rendered":"Sears, Kmart Closing 100+ Stores; None In North Dakota So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sears Holdings announced Tuesday that it plans to close more than 100 of its nearly 4,000 stores nationwide. A list of 79 closures has now been officially released and none of its 9 Sears or 7 Kmarts, including its locations in Bismarck, is on the recent list of closures.<\/p>\n<p>Opened in October 1971, Kmart was Bismarck&#8217;s first discount department store. Sears is the last original anchor still residing at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismancafe.com\/blogs\/gateway-fashion-mall\">Gateway Fashion Mall<\/a>, which opened in 1979. If Sears were to shutter its Bismarck location, it would certainly spell doom for the ill-fated Gateway Mall.<\/p>\n<p>Sears Holdings, which has seen repeated quarters of poor financial performance, was created in 2005 upon completion of a merger between Kmart Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck, &amp; Co. Kmart had previously filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection in 2002, but emerged on May 6, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>In neighboring states, Sears Holdings is closing 4 Kmarts in Minnesota, but none in Montana or South Dakota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sears Holdings announced Tuesday that it plans to close more than 100 of its nearly 4,000 stores nationwide. A list of 79 closures has now been officially released and none of its 9 Sears or 7 Kmarts, including its locations in Bismarck, is on the recent list of closures. Opened in October 1971, Kmart was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,2409,364,519],"tags":[253,205,4,776,777],"class_list":["post-6161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bismarck-news","category-business-news","category-home-page","category-mandan-news","tag-business","tag-closing","tag-gateway-fashion-mall","tag-kmart","tag-sears"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}