Washington County shoppers will lose their Kmart and Sears stores as the retail company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Sears Holdings Corp., which also owns the Kmart department store chain, is closing 142 stores across the country, including three in Oregon.



The Sears store at Washington Square Mall will close, along with the store at Willamette Town Center in Salem. The Kmart at 3955 SW Murray Blvd. in Beaverton will also shut down.



The stores are expected to close by the end of the year, the Associated Press reported.

At its peak, the operator of Sears and Kmart had 4,000 stores in 2012 but will now be left with a little more than 500. Sears announced an earlier round of Portland-area store closures in August, which included locations in Gresham, Vancouver and Happy Valley.



Business Insider has the full list of stores closing across the country.

-- The Associated Press contributed to this story