Lubbock's Sears is on the company's most recent closure list as the nationwide retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday. One of America's longest-operating retailers, the store opened in Lubbock 82 years ago.

Sears Holdings, which operates both Sears and Kmart stores, will close 142 unprofitable stores near the end of the year, with liquidation sales expected to begin shortly, according to the Associated Press. That's in addition to the closure of 46 unprofitable stores that had already been announced.

Business Insider and other national media outlets list Lubbock's Sears in the South Plains Mall, 6002 Slide Road, on the closure list. Eight other Texas Sears stores are also on the list - but none in West Texas, including the Sears stores in Amarillo and Abilene.

Management at the South Plains Mall declined to comment Monday, and said they would share more information when they could. Employees at the store also declined to comment.

On Monday afternoon, Lubbock's Sears was already pretty barren. The optical shop closed a while back, and the area has already been dismantled. The tools section was sparse. The second floor appliance center was not as desolate, but still had empty spaces, especially in home goods. Signs hanging from the ceiling boasted that the store was No. 1 in appliances - a reminder of the retailer's not-so-distant past. There were around two dozen shoppers Monday afternoon.

Sears, Roebuck and Co. opened in Lubbock on March 28, 1936 at 1115 Broadway, according to A-J archives. The store soon expanded and moved to 1625 13th St., to the building that is now Lubbock City Hall. When the local store celebrated the brand's 75th anniversary in 1961, the retailer employed 300 people in its 80,000 square foot store. Another Sears retail center was opened at 2610 50th St. in the 1960s.

Sears has been an anchor store at the South Plains Mall since Feb. 1977. J.C. Penney, Dillard's and Chick-fil-A are the only retailers that have been located at the mall since it opened in 1972, according to A-J Media archives.

Mervyns was the most recent anchor store to close at the mall in 2008, and was replaced with Premiere Cinemas in 2012.

Sears' other store brand Kmart closed in Lubbock in 2016. Many remaining Kmart stores in the U.S. are also slated to close, according to bankruptcy filings.