Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores

aid: sears-hometown-and-outlet-stores
name: Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Acquired by Transformco in October 2019 and wound down; no longer exists as an independent entity and has
  no first-party site of its own.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/sears-hometown-and-outlet-stores.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sears-hometown-and-outlet-stores/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-24'
modified: '2026-08-28'
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
  email: info@apievangelist.com
tags:
- Retail
- Specialty Retail
- Home Appliances
- Tools and Hardware
- Lawn and Garden
- Franchise Retail
- Defunct Company
apis: []
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sears-hometown-and-outlet-stores-inc-
description: 'Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHOS) was a national retailer of home appliances, lawn and garden
  equipment, tools and hardware, spun off from Sears Holdings in October 2012 and operating two segments: Sears Hometown and
  Hardware, a largely franchised network of smaller-format stores in rural and suburban markets, and Sears Outlet, which sold
  new, one-of-a-kind, out-of-carton, discontinued, obsolete, used, reconditioned, overstocked and scratch-and-dent merchandise.
  The company was acquired by Transform Holdco (Transformco) and ESL Investments in October 2019, at which point the Sears
  Outlet business was sold on to Franchise Group and rebranded American Freight. Sears Hometown filed for Chapter 11 in December
  2022 and converted to a Chapter 7 liquidation in February 2023. The company is defunct: it never operated a public developer
  program, and its corporate domain shos.com is now a parked registrar page serving a wildcard *.hostgator.com certificate
  and a 404, so there is no API surface, documentation, or /.well-known/ document left to profile.'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-28'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores was liquidated under Chapter 7 in February 2023 and its corporate domain shos.com
    is now a parked HostGator page — it presents a wildcard *.hostgator.com TLS certificate, redirects the root to /404.html,
    and answers HTTP 406 on every path — while developer.shos.com and api.shos.com no longer resolve at all.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.shos.com/
    status: 200
    note: TLS name mismatch (*.hostgator.com); with verification disabled the root redirects to https://www.shos.com/404.html
      — a parked-domain soft-404, not a company site.
  - url: https://www.shos.com/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 406
  - url: https://www.shos.com/robots.txt
    status: 406
  - url: https://developer.shos.com/
    status: 0
    note: DNS does not resolve (NXDOMAIN).
  - url: https://api.shos.com/
    status: 0
    note: DNS does not resolve (NXDOMAIN).
  - url: https://www.sears-hometown-and-outlet-stores.com/
    status: 0
    note: NXDOMAIN — previously carried in this file as the company Website; a slug-shaped guess that has never resolved.
      Removed as a dead pointer.
  - url: https://www.searsoutlet.com/
    status: 200
    note: Redirects to https://www.sears.com/ — the former Sears Outlet brand domain is now controlled by Transformco, a different
      company, so it is not recorded here as this provider's website.
  - url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sears-hometown-and-outlet-stores-inc-
    status: 200
    note: Verified live — the only surviving pointer for this company.
  checked: '2026-08-28'