The owners of the Kmart by the mall will turn the store into myGofer next year.

What’s a myGofer?

It’s a pilot concept hatched by Sears Holding Corp., owner of Kmart and Sears stores. The Joliet myGofer will be one of only two in the country, Sears Holding Corp. executives said Monday. They explained more to the Joliet City Council, which approved the concept for the Kmart near Westfield Louis Joliet mall.

It’s “a marriage between online shopping and brick and mortar,” the company’s creative director said.

It reverses the 80/20 percentage split between store floor and storage space, a top architect with the company said, giving most of the space to storage.

The Kmart store on Plainfield Road now open for Christmas shopping won’t be a Kmart anymore by next summer.

Concept of convenience
“We have embarked on a new concept,” said Steve Sunderland, vice president of concept renewal. Sunderland said Sears is on a mission to “redefine the retail landscape.”

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