It merged with Kmart in 2005

The answer

SEARS

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SEARS answer page.

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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