Lake Grove Sears Closing

The Sears store at the Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove will close the spring.

The store will close on May 6, according to a Feb. 6 notice the company filed with the state's Department of Labor under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notice Act.

Up to 77 workers will lose their jobs when the store closes. It's unclear if they will be offered positions at other Sears stores. There will only be three Sears left on the island: Massapequa, Valley Stream and Bridgehampton.

Sears declared bankruptcy in October 2018 and by that time already had closed 160 Sears and Kmart locations.

Since then, the retailer has been closing stores in waves as it switches to smaller-store formats.

After the Kmart in Bohemia closes this month, there will also only be a sole Kmart on the island in Bridgehampton.