Sears
At the beginning of the year, the corporation controlling both Kmart and its flagship stores, Sears Holdings, declared it would close about 89 stores by March this year. The list of closed stores suggested that it has impacted locations throughout the U.S. Florida and Texas seem to have felt much of the effects, as seven stores in both states were closed.

Sears
Lowe’s
Although the famous home and garden retailer had already shut down 51 of its under-performing stores this year, 20 in the United States and 31 in Canada. By the end of 2018, due to the fact that right after Marvin R. Ellison, who was the former CEO of J.C. Penney, took control of the company, after Robert Niblock, Lowe’s longtime CEO, retired, a move to close stores was announced in which Lowe’s revealed its plans to set the target to finish store closures by February 1, 2020.

Lowe’s