Kmart has begun liquidating stock at its Riverhead store.
The 104,000-square-foot Old Country Road location is one of more than 200 Kmart stores to be shuttered this year by parent company Sears Holdings. The most recent round of Sears and Kmart store closings announced last month by the struggling retail company included several on Long Island.
The Riverhead store closure will leave 65 people out of work, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filed by Kmart last month with the N.Y. State Department of Labor.
It is scheduled to close its doors on Nov. 25.
The closings are part of the company’s ongoing efforts to streamline operations and strengthen its capital position, Sears Holdings said in a press release last month.
After the current round of closings, there remain four Kmart stores in Suffolk: Bridgehampton, Medford, Bohemia and Huntington.
Kmart is the second “big box” retailer in Riverhead to close its doors this year. Toys “R” Us, which filed bankruptcy and closed all of its remaining 735 stores across the U.S., closed down this spring.
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