Walmart to Close 15 Stores in April

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Walmart to Close 15 Stores in April – Here’s the Full List

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Kierstyn Cummando



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April 2, 2023

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Walmart is officially closing 15 of its retail stores across 11 states this month, according to a report from Business Insider.



The mass closures include locations in Arkansas (1 store), Georgia (2), Florida (1), Hawaii (1), Illinois (3), Indiana (1), Minnesota (1), New Mexico (1), Oregon (2), Texas (1), Washington (1), Washington, D.C. (1), and Wisconsin (1).



At the Arkansas location in Bentonville, reports cited poor financial performance as the reasoning behind the rapid closures. Not only stores are affected either, Walmart will also include laying off hundreds of employees at five e-commerce fulfillment centers across the United States.



Here are the current stores that are set to be closed:



Arkansas

3701 SE Dodson Road, Bentonville (Pick-up only concept)

DC

99 H Street NW, Washington

Georgia

1801 Howell Mill Rd NW, Atlanta

835 M.L.K. Jr Dr NW, Atlanta

Florida

6900 US Highway 19 North, Pinellas Park (Neighborhood Market concept)

Hawaii

1032 Fort Street Mall, Honolulu

Illinois

17550 South Halsted St, Homewood

2690 S. Route 59, Plainfield

840 N. McCormick Blvd, Lincolnwood (Pick-up only concept)

Indiana

3701 Portage Road, South Bend

Minnesota

1200 Shingle Creek Pkwy, Brooklyn Center

New Mexico

301 San Mateo Blvd. SE, Albuquerque

Oregon

4200 82nd Ave. SE, Portland

1123 N Hayden Meadows Dr., Portland

Texas

24919 Westheimer Pkwy, Katy (Neighborhood Market concept)

Washington

11400 Hwy. 99, Everett

Wisconsin

10330 W. Silver Spring Dr, Milwaukee

Walmart announced earlier this month it’s two remaining Portland, Oregon locations would be closing due to high levels of theft, and were both included in this list.



Last year, the retail giant also closed two Ohio locations, one in Mayfield Heights and the other in Cincinnati, most likely for the same issues.



Recently, Walmart has been pushing for a more virtual presence, highlighting their online shopping features and delivery services. Walmart CFO John David Rainey stated earlier this month: “Today, the vast majority of our overall profits are attributable to in-store, brick-and-mortar in the U.S. If you fast forward five years, we are much less dependent on that as an income stream than some of these other faster-growing parts of our business.”



Walmart will instead focus more on third-party sellers active on Walmart.com, claiming that expanding e-commerce channels is central to Walmart’s strategy going forward, according to Rainey.


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Wow surprise, surprise!!! Here is an interesting comment:


gsuburban

an hour ago

Walmart is just taking fair action against the lack of law enforcement with those stores that have high shop lifting losses. The cost and time to prosecute petty theft is not worth the high expense and when the police and courts charge the high costs they do, some folks will do as Walmart, leave town.

[Clipper]

LOL! Closing a Bentonville store? That is home of the original store and the company headquarters. I would crack up if I were to find that the cause of the poor performance in Bentonville's store was because Target was kicking their butt.

[BHU]

Of course WM wants to shift more of it's business to ecommerce. That way they can hire less employees, lay off current ones or shift them to part time. WM uses private companies like UBER to do their deliveries, who's drivers are considered private contractors earning sh*t pay, which is right up the Walton family's alley.

Some day the Feds are going to crack down on outfits like UBER, Doordash WM & others who are making billions in profits by taking advantage of workers in this gig economy unless those companies they can line the pockets of Washington lawmakers to look the other way.