{"id":439008,"date":"2016-01-14T14:30:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=439008"},"modified":"2016-01-15T14:30:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T20:30:05","slug":"longview-kmart-closing-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=439008","title":{"rendered":"Longview Kmart Closing in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/01\/kmartmgn_1452799498857_6408706_ver1.0.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-439009\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/01\/kmartmgn_1452799498857_6408706_ver1.0-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"kmartmgn_1452799498857_6408706_ver1.0\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-439009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/01\/kmartmgn_1452799498857_6408706_ver1.0-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/01\/kmartmgn_1452799498857_6408706_ver1.0-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/01\/kmartmgn_1452799498857_6408706_ver1.0-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/01\/kmartmgn_1452799498857_6408706_ver1.0.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; Company officials confirmed Thursday that Kmart in Longview will close March 13.  KETK and the Longview News-Journal report the announcement comes from Howard Riefs, spokesman for Sears Holdings, corporate parent of Sears and Kmart stores.  The store has 58 employees, most of whom are part-time and hourly. Riefs said some eligible staffers will receive severance \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and have the opportunity to apply for open positions at area Sears or Kmart stores.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Riefs said Longview\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s is the only area Kmart or Sears store affected, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the other stores will remain open.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He said store closures are part of a series of actions the company is taking to reduce ongoing expenses, adjust its asset base, &#8220;and accelerate the transformation of our business model.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Riefs said the store began a liquidation sale Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Company officials confirmed Thursday that Kmart in Longview will close March 13. KETK and the Longview News-Journal report the announcement comes from Howard Riefs, spokesman for Sears Holdings, corporate parent of Sears and Kmart stores. The store has 58 employees, most of whom are part-time and hourly. Riefs said some eligible staffers will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=439008\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Kmart Closing in March<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":439009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 18:52:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439014,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439008\/revisions\/439014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/439009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}