Employer · WARN Act history · Retail Trade
Sears
157 workers across 4 WARN notices, primarily in WA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
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Sears has 4 recorded WARN filings affecting 157 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Sears has 4 recorded filings covering 157 workers across 2 states, primarily WA, the 1,496th-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.
Sears is a minor share of Retail Trade WARN activity — 0.1% of the sector's 135,000 workers across 330 employers, ranking #75 in Retail Trade.
How 157 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.
Sears WARN workers by state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, grouped by the state agency that received the notice, not a corporate headcount by HQ state.
Sears WARN workers by year and state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, crossed by calendar year and filing state, for the top 2 states by total workers affected.
| Year | WA | VA | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 68 | – | 68 |
| 2014 | 13 | – | 13 |
| 2012 | – | 76 | 76 |
Sears 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.
Lynchburg accounts for 48.4% of Sears's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.
Lead city Lynchburg · 48.4% · 3 named cities · top-3 share 100%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer SEARS · Sears 157 workers · 4 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-MID · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-OVER · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-DUAL · TYPE-MIX
- NOTC-LIGHT 4 filings
- WORK-MID #1,496
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-OVER 83d
- STAT-MULTI 2 states
- BOOK-DUAL 2 agencies
- TYPE-MIX 2C/2L
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 Sears WARN filings · notice runway
Top 4 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.
- Lynchburg, VA · Layoff · Retail Trade 71 workers · filed Oct 23, 2012 · 92d runway
- Redmond, WA · Closure · Retail Trade 68 workers · filed Apr 25, 2018 · 74d runway
- Seattle, WA · Closure · Retail Trade 13 workers · filed Feb 20, 2014 · 101d runway
- Lynchburg, VA · Layoff · Retail Trade 5 workers · filed Nov 15, 2012 · 61d runway
Median forward runway across 4 dated filings: 83 days (0 under 60d · 4 at/above 60d ).
What changed - Sears WARN filings by year
Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .
- 2012 → 2014: WARN workers affected for Sears fell from 76 in 2012 to 13 in 2014; notice count fell from 2 to 1.
- 2014 → 2018: WARN workers affected for Sears rose from 13 in 2014 to 68 in 2018; notice count held from 1 to 1.
Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2018.
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- WA
- Primary Industry
- Retail Trade
- First Notice
- Oct 23, 2012
- Latest Notice
- Apr 25, 2018
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Apr 2018.
WARN Notice History
2018
Redmond, WA · Retail Trade
Effective: Jul 8, 2018
68
workers
Filed Apr 25, 2018
2014
Seattle, WA · Retail Trade
Effective: Jun 1, 2014
13
workers
Filed Feb 20, 2014
2012
Lynchburg, VA · Retail Trade
Effective: Jan 15, 2013
5
workers
Filed Nov 15, 2012
Lynchburg, VA · Retail Trade
Effective: Jan 23, 2013
71
workers
Filed Oct 23, 2012
Questions about this Sears record
What is the largest Sears WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for Lynchburg, VA on Oct 23, 2012, covering 71 workers in Retail Trade.
Where were Sears's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Redmond, Seattle, and Lynchburg; together they form 2 facility closures and 2 mass-layoff filings sourced from Washington ESD and Virginia Works. States represented in this record: VA, WA.
Where is Sears's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
Lynchburg accounts for 48.4% of Sears's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.
Does Sears's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2012 through 2018 across 3 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in Sears'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: WA WARN filings · Retail Trade industry WARNs · WARN Act guide
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Sears 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.