There were once over 3,400 Sears stores embedded in U.S. everyday life, yet the final five could shutter in the coming days ...

In 2005, Sears Holdings was one of the largest retailers in the world with more than 3,400 Sears and KMart locations combined ...

Only five Sears stores remain in the country, with the end likely near for what was once the mightiest American retailer.

Sears may be finally seeing its retirement from the retail space after more than a century in business. What lessons can we learn from its legacy?

Sears is finally approaching the end of a retail story that once defined American shopping. After decades of shrinking footprints, restructurings, and last-ditch reinventions, the chain that helped ...