Last Sears in NY area shutting down, just 12 stores remain of world’s once-biggest retailer

The last-standing Sears in the New York area is shutting down, bringing the 138-year-old department store’s US footprint down to a measly dozen locations. At its peak as the world’s biggest retailer in 2011, Sears boasted roughly 4,000 locations worldwide, according to Statista. By 2014, that figure more than halved, per the data intelligence firm....