Sears (Robloxia)

Sears Robloxia is the Robloxian version of Sears. It has been apart of Transformco since 2021. Since the Sears brand is still operating in America. This Sears is a branch.

History
The company was founded in 1948, when JCPenney was becoming popular. Sears later announced that they would open a new store in Robloxia. The store was firstly named 'Sebastian Sears' as it opened at the Wilkenshire Building, half of the building was split into quarters so the new store could fit. It became popular that the store was targeted at everyone, and was also featured in The Robloxian Times, the title was called 'FIRST SEARS STORE OPENS UP!' and Sears opened a new store in 1949 in the Abrahams Building. In 1950, Sears opened a new store as a big box store. The store was even bigger than the other locations they opened up, and later Sears continued to open more of these big box stores. In 1972, Sears announced they would shut down their two stores in the Wilkenshire Building and the Abrahams Building, and these two stores were closed after two days of the announcement. Later in 1973, Sears opened a new store but was an anchor tenant at Garrett Square Mall. Sears also began their catalog book and also came with a marker named 'The Sears Big RED Marker' so people can circle what they want. The marker was meant to be returned at Sears, but people began keeping it, which was illegal. Later Sears also opened their flagship store in 1982. In the 90s, Sears began to decrease sales, since their main competitor is JCPenney, they decided to shut down their catalog. In 1998, Sears decided to acquire Kmart and Vienna's Wonderful World of Clothing, while Kmart was still going to continue operation as Sears would acquire 3 locations of Kmart and rebrand to Sears, while Vienna's Wonderful World of Clothing, a big box cheap clothing store, was meant to close down all their stores, and the merger was completed in 1999. When all Vienna's Wonderful World of Clothing stores were merged into Sears.

2000s
In the 2000s, Sears began to open small stores and also opened Sears Grand which were big-box stores but were even bigger. The original name was meant to be 'Sears Megastores' but was renamed to Sears Grand so it can't be like Virgin Megastores' name. In 2005, Sears and Kmart made a new holding company named Sears Holdings. The new holding company was the official home of Sears and Kmart. In 2007, Sears introduced a new rebrand. In 2009, Sears opened a new store in the Chinese part of Robloxia as '西尔斯 SEARS CHINA CO.'.

2010s
In the 2010s, Sears began to struggle with sales, since their competitors were increasing sales, Sears decided to close 22 locations. They began doing wrong decisions. In 2015, Sears announced they would exit the Chinese market, as five locations would remain, Sears would sell their remaining Chinese locations to Independent Corporation of Retailers (ICR) as they would continue to operate these remaining stores in the region. In 2018, Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, as their parent company, Sears Holdings, was shuttered, Sears announced they would close all stores, and on July 13, 2018, Sears finally liquidated all stores and closed all of them, that marked an end to Sears in Robloxia.

2020s and revival
In 2020, Sears announced they would make a comeback, as of their website was still active, they introduced their new logo on the website, and would open a new store at Westfield North Robloxia, the store had to open in 2021. On December 9th, 2020, Sears began construction on the new store would take 4 months to complete. But was completed early in March. The new store opened on March 4th, 2021, with a new rebrand and along their new logo, which was shown in 2020, the logo was more modern and the store was small and only had two floors, and also many other stores began opening. And as of May 2nd, 2023, Sears currently has 23 locations.