Posted on 02/22/2023 7:09:06 AM PST by Red Badger
Last week, news broke that multiple Walmart stores across the U.S. would be closing their doors. The retailer previously said that there's no single reason for the closures, only that decisions were made following a "thorough review process," per a statement to Footwear News. According to Walmart, the stores on the chopping block are "underperforming."
"We are grateful to the customers who have given us the privilege of serving them," Felicia McCranie, director of global communications at Walmart, said in a statement to Best Life. "We look forward to serving them at our other stores in the surrounding communities and on walmart.com."
But loyal shoppers are sad to see these stores go, with many expressing concerns about potential food deserts, as residents rely on Walmart for their weekly groceries. Ahead of the closures, we've compiled a list of all of the Walmart locations going out by March 10. Read on to see which locations are shuttering soon.
Lincolnwood, Illinois
Closing date: Feb. 17
The first Walmart set to close is a Walmart Pickup location at 6840 N. McCormick Boulevard in Lincolnwood, Illinois. A Walmart spokesperson told CBS Chicago that the location, which is in the Chicago suburbs, will be gone for good on Feb. 17.
"This decision was not made lightly and was reached only after a thorough review process," the spokesperson told CBS. "As this is a pickup and delivery only location, we have taken what we learned from this location and made it part of how we operate Pick-up and Delivery from our surrounding stores."
2 Bentonville, Arkansas
Closing date: Feb. 17
Another Walmart Pickup location in Bentonville, Arkansas, is also closing on Feb. 17, McCranie confirmed to Insider. The location is situated near Walmart's headquarters, operating more like a warehouse facility since 2014. According to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the site has space for 19 customers to pick up their orders at the same time, without having to leave their cars.
But that will be no more next week—and the future of the Walmart Pickup store format remains unclear. The only other Pickup location, in Metairie, Louisiana, shut down in 2022, Insider reported.
"We are grateful to the customers who have given us the privilege of serving them at our Pickup and Delivery locations," McCranie told Insider. "We look forward to serving them at our other stores in the surrounding communities and on walmart.com."
3 Homewood, Illinois
Closing date: By March 10
The Chicago area is being hit the hardest in terms of Walmart closures. In addition to the Lincolnwood Walmart Pickup location, a Walmart Supercenter in Homewood, at 17550 S. Halstead Street, is closing as well.
Customers were surprised that the store is closing, telling Fox 32 Chicago that the Homewood Walmart is "always busy."
The news even garnered a response from Homewood Mayor Rich Hofeld. "The Village was surprised by this news and will work with the property owner to fill the space as soon as possible," he said in a statement, per Fox 32 Chicago.
Employees will be given the opportunity to transfer to other Walmart stores, Walmart told CBS Chicago.
4 Plainfield, Illinois
Closing date: By March 10
Rounding out the Chicago area Walmart closures is a Supercenter in Plainfield, Illinois, also closing by March 10.
The store is located at 12690 S. Route 59—with a Walmart spokesperson telling CBS Chicago that it's another "underperforming" store. As with those working at the Homewood location, employees at the Plainfield Walmart will be given the opportunity to transfer to another store.
5 Pinellas Park, Florida
Closing date: By March 10
Florida shoppers are losing a Walmart Neighborhood Market located at 6900 US Highway 19 N., in Pinellas Park, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
Similar to the other closing stores, Walmart told the outlet that the location "did not meet our financial expectations," and it's also set to shutter before that March 10 date.
The spokesperson also told the Tampa Bay Times that no other closures are on the docket for the Tampa Bay area, and that employees can transfer.
6 Albuquerque, New Mexico
Closing date: By March 10
Yet another Walmart Supercenter is saying goodbye in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The store is located in the southeast region of the city, located at 301 San Mateo Boulevard SE. Once again, this location has an expiration date of March 10.
"We are grateful to the customers who have given us the privilege of serving them at our Albuquerque location," a spokesperson told KOB. "We look forward to serving them at our other stores in the surrounding communities and on walmart.com."
No additional stores in the Albuquerque area are slated to close, the spokesperson later told KOB, but residents who rely on the San Mateo Walmart are concerned about a potential food desert.
It really takes away the last option for fresh food and grocery stores for a big stretch of East Central and essentially creates the food desert that we have been concerned about for years," Albuquerque City Councilor Pat Davis told the Albuquerque Journal.
7 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A Walmart Supercenter on West Silver Spring Drive in Milwaukee is shuttering before March 10, too. As is the case in Albuquerque and Chicago, news of the closure is already causing a stir in the local community.
The store is currently located in Timmerman Plaza, and when it departs, shoppers say they won't have a nearby grocery store to rely on, Fox6 News Milwaukee reported. The next closest grocery store is roughly 3.5 miles away, but shopper Tom Lukojo, who lives across the street from the Walmart, pointed out that this may create a food desert, as many people in the area don't have cars.
"Actually, it's going to impact the neighborhood," Lukoji told Fox6 News. "Most of the people around depend on the Walmart here."
Milwaukee Alderman Mark Chambers Jr. also noted his frustration with the closure. "It's infuriating that such a massive, resource-rich, and wealthy Fortune 100 enterprise like Walmart cannot keep such an important location open," he told the Milwaukee Business Journal. "The move not only negatively impacts shoppers, pharmacy customers and store workers, but I fear it will only add to the food desert issues that we are seeing in that area."
Chambers told the outlet that he is working with the city to find a replacement, also telling Fox6 News that he would like to see another grocery store move into the space. "I know that when that Walmart came in, they pushed out Pick N Save," Chambers said. "I'd be very open to Pick N Save moving back over there."
One word: Teenz
Walmart made the decision to switch to cheap mostly made Chinese goods, what 30 years ago? Sam’s concept was dropped.
Someone HAD to know in their company the switch would lose manufacturing jobs and eventually cause a drop on buying power from average Americans. That loss of stores as the country lost high buying power would be inevitable.
IMHO I think they said “hell with it…we will have made our fortunes then so who cares?”.
Progs HATE Walmart with a burning passion. NOW. They will complain about the “food deserts” because Walmart is closing in “underserved communities of color.”
“Somehow I don’t think they had any problem with pilferage in the work boots section of the store.”
Dunno, Doc Martins are pretty popular. And no job required.
My employer sells to Walmart. All American manufactured products. Walmart requires us to prove our label claims. No other customer does that.
The females commit their fair share.
If you watch “cops” or similar shows you will see that black females rarely commit violent crimes.
There is the occasional highly publicized brawl but that is the exception that proves the rule.
They are much more likely to be involved in shoplifting or being accessories after the fact obstructing justice or harboring their black male “good boy” son or baby daddy.
Bentonville, Arkansas?
Isn’t that like the home town for the Wal-Market?
World HQ..................
They do their share of assault.
Why?... Because America has a problem race.
“World HQ..................”
Lol...I should’ve read more than the first two words of the paragraph. My (lazy) bad!
Tempest in a tea cup. These guys have 10,500+ stores in operation. They close some dogs every few years — it means nothing other than the store was a looser, too old or otherwise problematic. They open this many in a month.
These guys are sharp operators. For a couple of decades I did millions in construction for them. Great people to deal with for the most par,t but of course, in construction there were 15% nasty clods.
The Religion of Politics began preaching the Social Justice Gospel almost as soon as the civil and voting rights bills were signed. It was all about manufacturing a permanent sense of societal resentment among negroes. This cohort was then told, repeatedly, that by voting Democrat they would be able to get everything they had been cheated out of and , would be made whole in the bargain, and become healthy, wealthy and wise. All that was needed was to keep being resentful of whitey for slavery, etc and keep voting Democrat. Because negroes were historical victims they did not have to try to lead a life of domestic virtue marked by self respect, not based on historical grievance, but that most difficult thing , normality i e; finish high school, get and keep a job, don’t have children until one is married and, ideally, can fully support them, generally obey the laws, especially those that deal with inter personal relations and community standards. These things sound banal and simple minded. In reality they are truly hard to do just due to objective circumstances. Negro leadership prior to the civil rights agitation, constantly preached trying to live this sort of life. It was called ‘upward striving’ understanding how hard it was for many blacks to stay on the straight and narrow. That, incidentally, was why when it was released most black civic and religious groups exploded in rage over ‘Porgy and Bess’, seeing it, not incorrectly, as the glorification of everything they hated and wanted black people to reject.
The effects of the Religion of Politics and the Social Justice gospel have been catastrophic for perhaps half of all negroes. They have been wrecked as completely as the socalled Palestine Arabs by the same force of societal coddling, cultivation of a global sense of resentment and its concommitment of victimhood removes all responsibility. Originally the Democrats just saw this as buying a voting constituency as industrial trade unionism began to fade. Now, the social justice doctrine is fully embraced which preaches perpetual entitlement, virtuous whitey hating and equality of outcomes through reparations and deliberate harms to middle class white people. This departure is truly toxic and has a potential to end in mass ethnic violence of a tribalized sort.
Hmm....good point.
“They’ll just steal a van/truck and go further out”
Yeah, rent a U-Haul for one day ($19.95) and then just KEEP IT! Happens on “On Patrol Live” all the time.
You can just walk out the door with the keys and U-Haul (or any other rental company) won’t press charges, they are just happy to get their vehicle back in one piece.
The dimocrats are at all the Interstate off-ramps holding signs that say, “Anything helps”.
#34 The local Ralphs (Kroger) in Chatsworth, California has 2 doors and 2 armed guards and portable security cameras on a pole 24/7....
It used to be a nice area but the democrat party run LA City Council located 30 miles away is moving homeless up there into a empty hotel half a block away and building a multi story building across from a high school that is a couple blocks more down the same road and a block from a grade school.
The homeless camp by the railroad tracks next to the mall that Ralphs is at. The home owners and business’s have been ignored in their complaints on what is happening.
When the Lord closes a wall, somewhere He opens a gate.
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