Employer · WARN Act history · Retail Trade

Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings

252 workers across 2 WARN notices, primarily in IN - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.

252
Workers cut
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State
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Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings has 2 recorded WARN filings affecting 252 workers

According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings has 2 recorded filings covering 252 workers across 1 state, primarily IN, the 841st-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.

Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings is a minor share of Retail Trade WARN activity — 0.2% of the sector's 135,000 workers across 330 employers, ranking #47 in Retail Trade.

How 252 workers split by filing year

Calendar-year totals from WARN notice_date fields in this dataset, the same figures summed in the notice history below.

Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings city concentration · concentrated

Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.

Indianapolis accounts for 55.2% of Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.

Lead city Indianapolis · 55.2% · 2 named cities · top-3 share 100%

DOL WARN employer filing desk

Employer KMART-CORPOR · Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings 252 workers · 2 filings

NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-MID · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-OVER · STAT-SINGLE · BOOK-SINGLE · TYPE-CLOSE

  • NOTC-LIGHT 2 filings
  • WORK-MID #841
  • PHOTO-UNK No peer
  • RUNWAY-OVER 76d
  • STAT-SINGLE IN
  • BOOK-SINGLE 1 agency
  • TYPE-CLOSE 2 closures

Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.

Largest Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings WARN filings · notice runway

Top 2 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.

  • Indianapolis, IN · Closure · Retail Trade 139 workers · filed Sep 23, 2014 · 75d runway
  • Griffith, IN · Closure · Retail Trade 113 workers · filed Oct 15, 2018 · 77d runway

Median forward runway across 2 dated filings: 76 days (0 under 60d · 2 at/above 60d ).

Employer Profile

Primary State
IN
Primary Industry
Retail Trade
First Notice
Sep 23, 2014
Latest Notice
Oct 15, 2018
States with Layoffs
IN
0 workers 30 workers 60 workers 90 workers 120 workers 150 workers 2018 2014 113 workers 139 workers
WARN Notices by Year: Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings - Workers affected per year from WARN Act filings

WARN Notice History

2018

Facility Closure

Griffith, IN · Retail Trade

Effective: Dec 31, 2018

113

workers

Filed Oct 15, 2018

2014

Facility Closure

Indianapolis, IN · Retail Trade

Effective: Dec 7, 2014

139

workers

Filed Sep 23, 2014

Questions about this Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings record

What is the largest Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings WARN filing on record?

The largest row is the facility closure filed for Indianapolis, IN on Sep 23, 2014, covering 139 workers in Retail Trade.

Where were Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings's WARN notices filed?

The filings name Griffith and Indianapolis; together they form 2 facility-closure filings sourced from Indiana DWD. States represented in this record: IN.

Where is Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings's WARN footprint concentrated by city?

Indianapolis accounts for 55.2% of Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.

Does Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings's filing history show a recurring pattern?

The filing history spans 2014 through 2018 across 2 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.

How much advance notice appears in Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings's record?

The measurable notice runway clears the federal 60-day baseline; use the dated filing history to see which location and event produced it.

See also: IN WARN filings · Retail Trade industry WARNs · WARN Act guide

Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Kmart Corporation - Sears Holdings notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.

Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.