Will Kohl's close more stores? Here's what we know.

Nearly 1 twelvemonth ago, Kohl's had conscionable shuttered much than 2 twelve stores. Now, the retailer is holding dependable connected its store count.

The Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin-headquartered retailer has 1,150 stores currently, which comes aft the closing of 27 stores successful the archetypal 4 months of 2025. Among its existent stores, "well implicit 90% are profitable," CEO Michael Bender said during Kohl's March 10 net telephone discussing the company's 2025 fiscal twelvemonth performance.

For now, the institution does not foresee closing further stores – oregon opening caller ones – and instead, volition absorption connected improving show astatine its existing stores. "I would not expect immoderate benignant of expansive program of saying we’re taking stores retired oregon adding stores astatine this point," Bender said during the call. "The absorption for america is actually connected optimizing what we already have and we’ll beryllium focused connected making definite that we proceed to propulsion the stores productivity going forward."

The institution evaluates stores connected an "annual basis," Bender said, successful effect to questions astir further closings oregon openings. "And to the grade that determination are opportunities for america to either relocate … we tin bash that. But nary large alteration successful the store basal anticipation astatine this point."

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Consumers are being buffeted by precocious prices successful each categories of spending, and the institution has to code that.

"The user is behaving otherwise successful this challenging macroeconomic environment," Bender said. "We cognize our halfway low-to-middle income customers proceed to look fiscal pressures and they are seeking value."

Among the moves Kohl's is making to assistance thrust income growth:

• Cosmetics: MAC Cosmetics volition beryllium disposable successful 850 Sephora astatine Kohl's locations this month.

• Kids clothing: Offer much nether So and Sonoma marque apparel for nether $10 and grow Jumping Beans babe and FLX Kids covering to each stores by summer.

• Impulse deals: The institution has rolled a "deal bar" with items that are $10 oregon little astatine the beforehand of the communicative and volition deploy an Impulse Toy Tower, with toys besides priced nether $10.

Kohl's reported nett of $125 cardinal for the quarter, which ended Jan. 31, 2026, and included the vacation buying season. That's up from $48 cardinal successful the aforesaid play a twelvemonth ago. Full-year nett of $272 cardinal outpaced the $109 cardinal from fiscal twelvemonth 2024.

However, income were down 3.9% for the 4th and 4% for the twelvemonth – continuing the company's streak of little income that goes backmost years.