The word on the street is that the Sears store in the Bayshore Mall will close its doors next month, and we are pretty confident that that word is correct.
Here’s what we know.
An employee of the store tells the Outpost that she and her colleagues were informed of the upcoming closure of the store on Thursday. She said they were told that workers would soon be laid off, and that liquidation of the store’s inventory would begin on Sept. 3.
Also: Sears’ corporate parent, “Transform SR LLC” — a creature of the hedge fund that acquired Sears out of bankruptcy earlier this year — is now advertising temporary “STORE SHUTDOWN” jobs positions at the cashier’s desks and in the warehouse.
Here’s what we don’t have: An official statement. The media contact listed on the Sears Corporate website is apparently on vacation, and the person filling in for him didn’t answer his phone all day Friday, nor this morning. Sears had announced a wave of store closures earlier this month, and Eureka was not among them. But liquidation sales at those stores are already underway, and so the Eureka store closure must either be a standalone event or part of a wave of closures yet to be announced.