Last New Jersey Kmart to close as Westwood store will shut down in fall

Katie Sobko and Nancy Pascarella, NorthJersey.com
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Soon, Kmart will be just a memory in New Jersey, as the last location in the Garden State is expected to close this fall.

The chain’s Westwood location, at 700 Broadway, will close in September or October and already has signs in the windows noting that “everything must go.”

The Kmart store in Westwood had "Everything must go!" signs on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023.
The Kmart store in Westwood had "Everything must go!" signs on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023.

A location in Middlesex County closed last year, leaving the Bergen County store as the lone survivor in a chain that at one time had more than 2,000 locations around the country.

In 2019, stores in Wayne, Trenton, Wall and Somers Point closed. Kearny and Belleville stores followed suit in 2021.

The Kmart store in Westwood had "Everything must go!" signs on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023.
The Kmart store in Westwood had "Everything must go!" signs on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023.

Sears Holdings, the owner of both Kmart and Sears, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2018. It was spared liquidation by being sold to investor and CEO Eddie Lambert, who created the company Transformco to handle the business in 2019.

This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: Kmart in Westwood to close, last one in New Jersey