Grass Valley Kmart Closes; Last One On West Coast

GRASS VALLEY (CBS13) — A once-mighty retailer that boasted astir 2,500 stores successful its heyday ends its West Coast beingness this play by liquidating virtually everything successful its Grass Valley location.

“Poor Kmart,” said Sharon Sweet of Nevada City, who stopped by Friday greeting looking for bargains. “Finished. Over. Done with.”

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The Grass Valley Kmart was 1 of lone a fistful of Kmarts near successful the continental United States.

A motion extracurricular the store said the liquidation merchantability would tally done the weekend, but a look wrong suggested the extremity could travel sooner than that.

“I was present astir a week-and-a-half agone and determination was rather a spot [of stuff],” said Hector Aguilar of Sacramento. “But present it’s down to the past bone.”

Most of the store was cordoned disconnected with the past remaining merchandise moved toward the cheque stands. Women’s bathing suits were selling for 99¢ and toddlers’ dresses for 79¢. Signs advertised each the shelves and racks for sale, excessively — including the motion advertizing the liquidation posted successful beforehand of the store.

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But not everyone who dropped by the store was looking for a bargain.

“I utilized to enactment present a agelong clip agone truthful I thought I’d travel by and accidental goodbye,” said Shawn Sutton of Penn Valley. “It’s benignant of a saccharine and bittersweet infinitesimal astatine the aforesaid time. I miss it.”

Kmart’s demise surely leaves a spread successful Nevada County’s retail landscape, but it’s lone temporary. A Citrus Heights contractor pulled a $500,000 gathering licence astatine the opening of December to statesman remodeling enactment for Target, which volition instrumentality implicit Kmart’s lease.

“Target volition beryllium good,” said Joanne Haines, who lives adjacent the buying center. “It’s bittersweet to spot thing go, but determination are ever caller things coming. So we’ve got to support positive, right?”

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Retail analysts accidental this volition apt beryllium the last vacation play for some Kmart and its sister company, Sears.