Sears

Sears is a retail brand currently owned by Transform Holdco, which operates a chain of Sears Hometown stores, as well as 61 Sears department stores in the United States. Originally the department store arm of Sears, Roebuck & Co., the chain's first stores opened in 1925.

Store history
The below table shows the number of stores operating under the Sears brand at the end of each year from 1925, when the department store chain was first created, until 2019, when all remaining Sears stores were acquired by Transform Holdco, a private company which does not regularly report the number of stores it operates.