{"id":12047,"date":"2018-01-04T16:41:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T21:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=12047"},"modified":"2018-01-04T16:52:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T21:52:23","slug":"brick-kmart-survives-latest-round-of-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/01\/brick-kmart-survives-latest-round-of-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Kmart Store Survives Latest Round of Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7961\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1358-e1459399343461.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7961\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1358-e1459399343461-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The Laurel Square shopping center, Brick, N.J. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"640\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1358-e1459399343461-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1358-e1459399343461-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1358-e1459399343461-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1358-e1459399343461.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Laurel Square shopping center, Brick, N.J. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Kmart store in Brick will remain open amid a new round of closures announced Thursday by Sears Holdings, the big box store\u2019s parent company.<\/p>\n<p>Located in the Laurel Square shopping center between routes 70 and 88, Kmart has long been subject to rumors of its closure, especially since the Pathmark supermarket in the same plaza closed and significantly cut down on traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The only local store on the list \u2013 and the only store in New Jersey as a whole \u2013 of properties to be shut down is the Sears store at the Ocean County Mall in Toms River. The company said the store would close in \u201cearly April.\u201d The automotive section will likely close by the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>In all, 103 Kmart and Sears stores are closing across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSears Holdings continues its strategic assessment of the productivity of our Kmart and Sears store base and will continue to right size our store footprint in number and size,\u201d the company said in a statement. \u201cIn the process, as previously announced we will continue to close some unprofitable stores as we transform our business model so that our physical store footprint and our digital capabilities match the needs and preferences of our members.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Liquidation sales will begin as early as Jan. 12 at the closing stores, the company said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/01\/brick-kmart-survives-latest-round-of-closures\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kmart store in Brick will remain open amid a new round of closures announced Thursday by Sears Holdings, the big box store\u2019s parent company. Located in the Laurel Square shopping center between routes 70 and 88, Kmart has long been subject to rumors of its closure, especially since the Pathmark supermarket in the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1649],"tags":[24,2099,2026,3163],"class_list":["post-12047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-business","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-kmart","tag-laurel-square","tag-sears"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1358-e1459399343461.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-38j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}