Sears, which shuttered its last department store in the Islands last year, is also closing its Appliances and Mattresses store at Ala Moana Center.A store associate told PBN that the official closing date remains tentative and deferred questions to Illinois-based Sears parent company Transformco, which was not immediately available for comment.
The Sears Appliances and Mattresses store occupies a 16,000-square-foot space on the street level of the shopping center near Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th.
The appliance and mattress-focused retailers are a relatively new concept for the brand. According to a company announcement at the time, the first Sears mattress store opened in Colorado in 2016, and the first appliance and mattress store launched in Texas in 2017.
The Appliances and Mattresses store at Ala Moana Center also opened in late 2017.
The closure of Sears Appliances and Mattresses marks the final departure of the brand in the Islands. At one point, Sears had several stores in Hawaii.
It closed its flagship department store at Ala Moana Center in 2013 ahead of the shopping center’s construction of the Ewa Wing. In 2018, Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and a string of other department store closures followed.
The brand’s final department store in Hawaii — an 87,000-square-foot location at Queen Kaahumanu Center on Maui — closed last November.
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