{"id":108670,"date":"2018-10-23T07:27:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=108670"},"modified":"2018-10-23T07:27:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:27:20","slug":"owner-van-wert-sears-store-not-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/10\/23\/owner-van-wert-sears-store-not-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"Owner: Van Wert Sears store not closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>VW independent\/submitted information<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Owner Jared Tomlinson wishes he had a dollar for every time he is asked at his store &#8212; Sears Hometown Store in Van Wert &#8212; if the store is closing or going bankrupt, because of the recent bankruptcy filing of Sears Holdings Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s every day, it\u2019s constant,\u201d said Tomlinson, but he totally understands the confusion because of the long-time iconic Sears name<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40491\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40491 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Van-Wert-Sears-store-7-2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"148\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>The Sears Hometown Store in Van Wert.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Sears Hometown Store in the Van Wert is not part of the bankruptcy filing by Sears Holdings Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Tomlinson said that, although Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores Inc. has business relationships with Sears Holdings, it is a publicly-owned company that separated from Sears Holdings in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Tomlinson explained that Sears Hometown is a national retailer primarily focused on selling home appliances, lawn and garden equipment, tools, and hardware. Dealers are independent businesspeople who are actively involved in their businesses and their communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour local Sears Hometown Store wants you to know it remains business as usual at Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores,\u201d Tomlinson noted. \u201cWe look forward to continuing to provide you with outstanding service, value, and convenience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information Owner Jared Tomlinson wishes he had a dollar for every time he is asked at his store &#8212; Sears Hometown Store in Van Wert &#8212; if the store is closing or going bankrupt, because of the recent bankruptcy filing of Sears Holdings Corporation. \u201cIt\u2019s every day, it\u2019s constant,\u201d said Tomlinson, but he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 04:40:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}