Does anyone know if or when the Sears & Roebuck stores are closing in Jersey City, Rockaway or Hackensack?
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Our store was a flag staff store its gone
It seems as most of the stores are a real dump. So much for saving jobs and investing in the stores.
My bet is that all New Jersey Sears and K-Marts will be closed by July before the new state law goes into affect requiring businesses with more than 50 employees to give 90 days notice prior to closing and pay employees one week severance for every year of service.
Hackensack is definitely not a flag ship store. The store is falling apart like every other store. It already looks like it’s shut down. It’s sad honestly. No customers, and it’s in an area that’s being gentrified. The store doesn’t fit it’s surroundings in terms of aesthetics or client needs. There is a Target 2 blocks away and Home Depot, Lowe’s within a 5 mile radius. There are also 2 shopping malls within 10 miles in which one of the Sears was shut down 3 years ago. The only reason why that store has lasted this long is because they pretty much pays no rent and collect rent from the ALDI supermarket. Also whomever is interested in the building would have to demolish since it’s asbestos infected.
Hackensack is the flagship Sears store, It will likely stay around as long as the company does.
The Hackensack building is awesome. It's been there since 1932.
The (1) main store, plus (2) Auto Center, plus (3) Grocery Store!? in the parking lot , take up the equivalent of at least two city blocks.
But, for better or worse, there is much residential construction going on a few blocks south and Hackensack is changing.
I would not be surprised if one or more developers make a play for the property if they haven't already.
Hackensack is one of the old school free standing architecture style Sears stores that one would have seen in the 1930's through the 50's before Sears started building stores in enclosed shopping malls.
New Brunswick has multiple retailers and developers interested in the property. A property acquisition company was researching deed restrictions, zoning approvals and violations a month before the store closure was announced.
I'm guessing if no one is interested in the property or buying the remainder of a lease, that store would stay open for now. Jersey City and Hack don't seem to be contenders for anything new in the future.
Eddie bought Sears Holdings with the promise of preserving jobs and keeping 425 stores at the time open.
He failed miserably on both counts, continuing to slash jobs and close stores.
He knows no other way to operate a retail business other than cutting and closing.
They are going to soon close all Full Line Stores. So it is just a matter of time. I visited the Hackensack store about a month ago to buy some tools and it was a graveyard. No customers and not an associate to assist me in sight. I walked out and went to Home Depot down the street. I was trying to support Sears but Sears doesn’t support its customers.