Shopko Stores Operating Co., which announced plans this month to close its Kimball department store, keeps making moves to right its financial ship.

The Wisconsin-headquartered retailer in recent days reported the sale of 64 of its pharmacy locations to supermarket chains – 42 to Kroger and 22 to Hy-Vee.

Those moves don’t affect the Kimball operation, but this development offers perhaps a glimmer of hope: The manager of the Shopko Hometown outlet in Stanley, N.D., told the media last weekend that plans to close that store were reversed.

Stanley and Kimball have something in common: Both...