Corporate Office

Barely — three Kmart stores remain in 2026. They are a small-format store in Miami, Florida, a full-size store in Tamuning, Guam, and a store in the Tutu Park Mall on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The last full-size mainland Kmart, in Bridgehampton, New York, closed on October 20, 2024. The website, kmart.com, is still operating and still sells.

Three. The Kmart locations still open are in Miami (Florida), Tamuning (Guam) and St. Thomas (U.S. Virgin Islands). At its 1994 peak Kmart ran 2,323 stores, so what remains is a remnant kept by Transformco, the company that bought Kmart out of the Sears Holdings bankruptcy in 2019. Transformco publishes no official store list, and the remaining stores’ status can change without announcement. These are the only Kmart stores still open in 2026.

It depends what you count. The last full-size mainland store was Bridgehampton, New York — it closed in October 2024 and the space is now a Target. What survives is a small store inside the Kendale Lakes Plaza in Miami, plus two full-size island stores that outlived the mainland chain: Tamuning, Guam, and St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

There was no single closing day — Kmart shrank for two decades. The company filed for bankruptcy in January 2002, merged with Sears in 2005, and its parent filed again in October 2018. Transformco bought the remains in February 2019 and kept closing stores; Kmart closed that last full-size mainland store on October 20, 2024 — the final mainland Kmart closing. Three stores and the website never closed at all.

Why did Kmart close most of its stores? Slowly, and for familiar reasons: Walmart and Target out-executed it on price, supply chain and store upkeep while Kmart’s stores aged and its investment went elsewhere. Debt from the 2005 Sears merger and years of losses led to bankruptcy in 2018, and the buyer in 2019 was a financial owner that kept only a handful of stores. Kmart didn’t lose to one rival in one year — it lost ground for thirty years.

Transform SR Brands LLC — “Transformco” — the company formed to buy Kmart and Sears out of bankruptcy in February 2019. The Kmart owner behind Transformco is ESL Investments, the hedge fund of Eddie Lampert, Sears Holdings’ former chairman and CEO. Transformco also runs what is left of Sears, Sears Home Services and the Kenmore brand.

The Kmart corporate office — the Kmart corporate headquarters — is at 5407 Trillium Boulevard, Hoffman Estates, Illinois 60192, in Transformco’s offices (the Transformco corporate office for both Kmart and Sears). Old addresses still circulate: Kmart was headquartered in Troy, Michigan for decades, then at 3333 Beverly Road in Hoffman Estates under Sears Holdings. That Beverly Road campus was sold in 2023 and is being demolished, so don’t mail anything there. The Kmart headquarters phone number — the Kmart corporate phone number — is (847) 286-2500, Transformco’s main line (the same Transformco phone number serves Sears). There is no public Kmart corporate email or Kmart headquarters email — Transformco takes contact by phone and web form.

1-866-562-7848 — the Kmart customer service number and the main Kmart phone number, still routed for Kmart customers with order, store and gift card questions. For anything about an online order, the help pages on kmart.com are the other route. Appliance protection agreements are a separate desk: Sears Home Services at 1-800-469-4663. For a Kmart order status check or Kmart online customer service, the help pages on kmart.com are the route.

Yes. Kmart and Sears gift cards were assumed by Transformco in the 2019 sale and remain redeemable at kmart.com, sears.com and the remaining stores. To check a gift card balance, call customer service at 1-866-562-7848 with the card number handy and they can read you the remaining balance. Two honest cautions: the remaining ways to spend them keep shrinking, so use a balance rather than saving it; and Kmart Australia gift cards are a different company’s cards entirely and never worked in the U.S.

Yes. The Tamuning, Guam store is a full-size Kmart that has been open since 1995, and it is now the largest Kmart left anywhere. It serves the island much as mainland stores once did, and locals simply call it “Kmart” — for Guam it never went away.

Yes — the store at Tutu Park Mall on St. Thomas is still trading. It is the last U.S. Virgin Islands Kmart standing: the St. Croix store closed in August 2023 and the second St. Thomas store, at Lockhart Gardens, closed in August 2025.

Kmart human resources questions go to Transformco HR at 1-888-887-3277 — the Kmart HR phone number. On the published HR menu, Option 4 covers Kmart employment verification (handled through Thomas & Company) and Option 5 covers W-2 management for former Sears and Kmart associates. Pension questions are different — those belong to the PBGC, below.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation — the PBGC. The federal agency took over the Sears and Kmart pension plans on January 31, 2019, covering roughly 90,000 participants. If you or a family member has a Kmart pension, pbgc.gov is the authoritative source for status, estimates and claims — not Transformco and not this site.

No — and it hasn’t been for decades. Kmart Australia belongs to Wesfarmers, an Australian company, which bought the perpetual rights to the Kmart name in Australia and New Zealand in 2017. It is a large, healthy retailer in its own right, which is why searches for “Kmart” so often return Australian stores and Australian gift card pages. It has no connection to the U.S. company or its gift cards.

They were sold off piece by piece. Craftsman went to Stanley Black & Decker in 2017 and is now sold at Lowe’s, Ace Hardware and elsewhere. DieHard was sold to Advance Auto Parts in 2019. Kenmore is the exception — Transformco still owns it, and Kenmore appliances are still sold through Amazon, Lowe’s, Target and kenmore.com.