Final days at the Valle Vista Mall Sears

Now the blog moves into another part of the state that was previously uncovered. This is the first of the Rio Grande Valley posts of Valle Vista Mall, and the last Kmart in Texas.

Here is a unique Sears store photographed in the final days of operation. The Valle Vista Mall in Harlingen Texas has a growing amount of vacancies. The loss of this Sears store will hurt this end of the mall which is already mostly vacant. The exterior of the store has excellent detail that I have never seen before at a Sears location. The arches and the old school red tiles are a very nice added touch.

Sadly, the inside of the store is nothing special.

The electronics department still had the older brand logos from the late 1990's that has mostly disappeared from Sears locations.

At this point in the sale most of the items except for clothes were sold out.

You can see the Sears days logo behind the paper sign advertising the closing sale.

It was hard to tell what was in this part of the store before the sale. Probably Women's clothing, but all of the signage had been taken down.

Some damaged walls in this area.

There were a ton of fixtures still left. I wonder how many are still sitting inside of the now vacant building.

Here is the center of the store which had tools and exercise equipment. 

A few items were still left in this part of the store.

A random Christmas tree, waiting for a new home.

The Sears auto center area.

Lots of shelving fixtures in this part of the store near the auto center.

This would be an awesome sign to put in a garage.

Low quality windshield wipers for 50% off, sign me up!

Now for the mall entrance and front of the store. I walked the mall and came back, you will see more of the mall in a future article.

Here we find the bulk of the remaining items for sale. I found a few things and surprisingly checked out fast.

The small spaces that previously housed various Sears departments. This one was filled with office supplies.

Last 5 days! I barely made it in time to see this store as well as the one in Victoria.

A blurry view of the mall entrance.

The store had a decent size for a one level location.

A few more views of the former electronics and appliance departments.

More outdoor views. Imagine how cool this store looked with the older Sears logos.

Last days at the Victoria Mall Sears January 2019

This Sears was part of the first round of stores slated to close with the Sears bankruptcy. The last day for this store was on January 6, 2019. My visit to the store was on January 2nd, 2019, a chilly rainy day. At this point, the store was mostly empty so I was able to walk around and see the nearly empty building. This was my only visit to the store so if anyone else has any memories of shopping here please share them.

I also have some video of the store at along with 2 other visits on my YouTube channel at this link.

The mall entrance.

Empty shoe racks.

Very little left inside of the store.

One of the few spots with products still remaining.

This was the last little bit of appliances and mattresses. 

Former electronics department?

The last of the tools.

Vision center?

More emptiness right around the corner.

Barricaded dressing room.

More emptiness.

Back to the mall entrance area of the store where most of the remaining products were at.

Package pickup area.

Just about all of the fixtures left were in this part of the store as well.

The advertisement at the entrances of the store.

RIP Victoria Sears.