DEFA14A

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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SEARS HOMETOWN AND OUTLET STORES, INC.

 

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LOGO Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
51 Mercedes Way
Edgewood, NY 11717

May 4, 2015

RE: Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, Inc.

Dear Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, Inc. Shareholder,

Recently you should have received Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, Inc. (the “Company”) Annual Meeting material. It has come to our attention that, due to a clerical error, the material you received contained a voter instruction form (“proxy card”) that incorrectly listed Mr. W. Bruce Johnson as a nominee for election to the Company’s Board of Directors.

As described in that material, Mr. Johnson has previously notified the Company that he declines to stand for re-election to the Board of Directors in connection with his mutual agreement with the Company’s Board of Directors that he will leave the Company as of the end of the second fiscal quarter of 2015. As a consequence the Company’s Board of Directors has not nominated him for election at the Annual Meeting.

Enclosed you will find a corrected voter instruction form. If you have not already voted, please disregard the previously provided incorrect voter instruction form and use the enclosed revised voter instruction form to vote your shares. If you have already voted using the previously provided voter instruction form and do not vote your shares again using the enclosed revised voter instruction form, your votes as previously submitted will be counted except that any votes with respect to the election of Mr. Johnson will be disregarded.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Sincerely,

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.