If you qualify for severance or even unemployment might as well wait it out so they have to pay out a little bit and raise their unemployment insurance if they do try to convert the hometown stores, if you can live off Sears paychecks you can live off unemployment, it shouldn't be much longer, just use that time to figure out what direction you want to go and apply for jobs you want, find a career, go take some classes, just take the 6 months to better yourself, makes more sense then going to Target or Lowe's or some place similar that would probably instantly hire you for not much more than unemployment will pay, you can always find a job at those places if you have retail experience don't sell yourself short and go to Target unless you're a manager and want to stay in retail management, it's the same b.s working at other retailers as it is working at Sears pretty much
Couldn’t agree more with @114uC6WF-3jyj