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Sears Holdings Corp. Reports 13.9 Percent Same-Store Sales Drop

Aug 03, 2015 12:56 PM EDT | By Michael Smith

Sears Holdings Corp. officials have reported that the company's total sales fell 13.9 percent at Sears locations and 6.9 percent at Kmart venues, Bloomberg reports. 

The company posted a 10.6 percent drop in same-store sales in the second quarter of fiscal year 2015. 

"We intend to continue taking significant actions to alter our capital structure," Sears officials wrote in a statement on Monday. 

The embattled owner of department store chains recently announced plans to sell about 235 properties and form new leasing contracts in an effort to raise more than $2.5 billion.

Sears is awaiting approval by the Securities and Exchange Commission for a possible Friday launch of real estate investment plans, according to the Wall Street Journal. Sears has also formed joint ventures with Macerich Co. and Simon Property Group Inc.

The company recently made headlines for a shareholder class action lawsuit filed against it, claiming the company's plans will leave the company stuck in debt and money loss.

"The proposed transaction is a financially and structurally unfair deal," the lawsuit claims, according to the Chicago Tribune.  

"Sears and its stockholders would receive a severely inadequate cash payment that the defendant Lampert-controlled company may use to cover operating losses and debt obligations for another year or so, before stockholders are left holding the bag in an insolvency widely viewed as inevitable if the proposed transaction occurs."

Sears was founded in 1886 in Chicago. 

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