WOODBRIDGE – Woodbridge Center is losing another of its anchor stores.

Just more than a month after Lord & Taylor closed here, Sears confirmed it also is shutting its doors at the mall.

A liquidation sale will begin later this week and the store is planned to close in mid-April, said Larry Costello, a spokesman for Transformco, Sears' parent company.

Sears, once one of America's most well-known retailers, has seen declining sales in recent years. Several calls to the store here Wednesday went unanswered.

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Another Central Jersey Sears, at a landmark location along Route 22 in Watchung, closed in 2017. A shopping center was built on the site, and a movie theater replaced the adjacent auto center.

A New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Rapid Response WARN notice had not listed the Sears here Wednesday afternoon. The notice offers protection to workers, their families and communities by requiring employers to provide notice 60 days in advance of covered plant closings and covered mass layoffs, according to the website.

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Only Boscov's, J.C. Penney, Dick's Sporting Goods and Macy's remain as anchor stores within Woodbridge Center’s 1.6 million square feet of retail space.

Sears has long specialized in appliances. tools, mattresses, clothing, auto repair, home decor and outdoor furniture.

USA TODAY reported more than 100 Sears and Kmart stores are in their final days, with going-out-of-business liquidation sales at 51 Sears and 45 Kmart stores announced in November by Transformco.

The Woodbridge Center location was not on that list. Media reports, however, indicated that additional stores would be closing.

Transformco acquired Sears and Kmart out of bankruptcy in February 2019.

Sears and Kmart have closed more than 3,500 stores and cut about 250,000 jobs in the past 15 years, according to USA TODAY.

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