Sears isn’t dead. It’s alive and well in Mexico.

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Sears isn’t dead. It’s alive and well in Mexico.

The iconic retail brand is down to five locations in the United States. In Mexico, there are more than 90.

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*Customers shop for shoes and handbags last month at a Sears department store in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. (Paul Ratje/For The Washington Post)*

By

Terrence McCoy

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Above a crowded highway outside the grandest shopping mall in this Mexican border metropolis rises one of the most recognizable names in the American commercial lexicon.

Big, red, shimmering in the desert heat: SEARS.

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