Kmart St. Croix to close in August

The lone remaining Kmart retail store located in St. Croix will close its doors for good in early August.

The approximately 96 employees of its Castle Coakley location will be out of a job effective August 8, 2025, according to a Transformco letter obtained by the Virgin Islands Free Press.

The letter to a Kmart St. Croix employee (whose name was redacted in a submitted photo) states that Transformco is not renewing the lease in the Sunny Isle Shopping Center.

Employees are advised to considering applying to the Kmart in St. Thomas, which will remain open in the continuing future.

“Eligible associates will receive one week of severance pay for each year of service,” the Transformco letter states.

St. Croix had two Kmart locations going in to 2023, but the Big Kmart sited in the Sunshine Mall in Frederiksted closed its doors for good in June of that year.