Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores is a retailer that sells home appliances, lawn and garden equipment, apparel, mattresses, sporting goods and tools. The Company operates through two segments — the Sears Hometown and Hardware segment, which provides in-store and online access to a wide selection of national brands of home appliances, tools, lawn and garden equipment, sporting goods, consumer electronics and household goods, depending on the particular store; and the Sears Outlet segment, which provides customers with in-store and online access to new, one-of-a-kind, out-of-carton, discontinued, obsolete, used, reconditioned, overstocked and scratched and dented products across a broad assortment of merchandise categories.