NEW YORK — The layaway wars are heating up ahead of the winter holidays. Kmart, a division of Sears Holdings Corp., said Friday that it’s waiving the fees that shoppers pay to open its interest-free ...

— -- Starting Friday, Kmart and Sears will drop all layaway fees year-round and allow shoppers to put any item on layaway at nearly all of their stores, parent company Sears Holdings told USA ...

A week before Christmas, many Kmart customers are finding out the gifts they put on layaway will not arrive after all. Kmart is apologizing to customers who got emails saying their layaway orders were ...

— -- Starting Friday, Kmart will drop all layaway fees and allow shoppers to put any item on layaway at nearly all of their stores, parent company Sears Holdings told USA TODAY on Thursday. The ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children. He asked to pay something on his bill ...

FARGO - Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. And sometimes, he can be found at the layaway counter at Kmart. This year, in fact, several generous "layaway angels" or "Secret Santas" made very ...

Kmart started its Christmas season this week and it’s paying for it on its Facebook page, where some shoppers have unloaded on the retailer for pushing the holidays this early. Kmart started running a ...

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Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:56:42 GMT — The calendar may only read September, but if you are a retailer, you have Christmas on the mind. More than 100 days before the big holiday, Kmart launched its first ...

Starting Friday, Kmart and Sears will drop all layaway fees year-round and allow shoppers to put any item on layaway at nearly all of their stores, parent company Sears Holdings told USA TODAY on ...