Another Walmart closes...

[Concerned American]

They've also deprived millions of Americans from starting their own businesses, as well as putting other
legacy businesses OUT of business.

The sad part of it is WE have done that. We go to Walmart and leverage their massive purchasing power to keep our costs down. If the people of any particular community felt is was worth the cost of keeping local businesses, then Walmart would not succeed. Government mandated employee costs are not helping small business either. $15+ minimum wages, SS, disability insurance, sick leave, FMLA, paid parental leave, vacation and holiday pay all add up to costs that small business cannot support. So they compete the only way they can and cut employee hours to less than full time so those benefits will not have to be paid and the employees suffer. But bottom line, we as consumers have the control.

 

[The Duke]

Well, there are parts of Orlando that i would never go into....

Same here.

 

[Missourian]

So did blacks swarm it and loot it?

Or is it more of a "Everybody went to the butcher shop and Co-op instead."

Noel is tiny...and not that far from Walmart HQ.

They built a bunch of these Dollar General sized Walmarts with gas pumps out front like a supersized convenience store with groceries... all up and down 59 in NE Arkansas and SE Missouri.

Most of them closed almost immediately...I think Noel was one of the last hold outs.

This is the one in Noel...it looks like it's a Harp's now ... a regional grocery store.



I haven't been down there in years, but we hauled a bunch of something down there...materials for a power plant I believe...long before covid...2014 maybe...and I swear, some were built and never opened.

 

[Missourian]

Walmart Express
(479) 787-9745

Walmart Express · 800 1st Ave SE, Gravette, AR 72736

★★★★★ · Grocery store

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The one in Gravette, AR was definately closed when I was down there...and it closed 7 years ago.

Walmart Express. A failed small town experiment.

 

[skye]

Where are the savages going to shoplift now that all the Walmarts are closing?

 

[Dekster]

We have one of those walmart grocery stores. I'm not a fan because it is clausterphobic but it stays super busy and if you ever need to find a policeman in that part of town, you know there will probably be one there arresting somebody or the other. Too many government subsidized projects within walking distance of it. I really don't care about the theft though, it is the claustrophobia thing. The aisles are barely wide enough for two of the small carts to pass each other and when you add in the volume of shoppers and that there is gonna be that one person (or 2) blocking up the whole aisle, saving an extra dime on mustard just ain't worth it. At the regular super Walmart I could drive a car down some of the grocery aisles they are so wide.

 

[AMart]

Where are the savages going to shoplift now that all the Walmarts are closing?

Aldi?

 

[skye]

Aldi?

Or McDonalds? or......something along those lines?

 

[Bleipriester]

The community complains "oh, woe is me...now we're in a food desert..."

"That means that access to grocery stores without Walmart is at least over one mile away."

Boo-Hoo.

 

[1srelluc]

Nope it's been a shithole forever. Surprised Wal Mart had a store there.

OK, I was just looking at the higher crime areas and it seemed the western part was the worst.....Again, relatively speaking.

 

[Synthaholic]

This time East Saint Louis Illinois.

They're sick and tired of being stolen from.

The community complains "oh, woe is me...now we're in a food desert..."

You had a fucking Walmart!

If you want to blame someone for your food desert...blame the thieves.

Walmart abruptly closes store as locals complain it will leave a 'food desert'

A WALMART location in one state has abruptly closed its doors over the weekend as residents claim the area is losing nearly all its grocery stores. The retailer’s Cahokia Heights location in …

www.the-sun.com

Because Walmart cannot afford security.

 

[Polishprince]

Because Walmart cannot afford security.

Walmart has security in all of their stores.

Its just that it isn't enough to stop the crime wave in their Ghetto Locations, so they are pulling out of those.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

HellMart ARE the thieves.

How so?

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

I thought East St. Louis was the "good" part of town.....Good being relative of course.

East St Louis is one of the worst ghettos in the US. Has been for several decades.

 

[candycorn]

You know the right wing loons are frustrated when a car catching fire and wal mart closing a store are what they are rallying around.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

It's raaaaaaaaaaacist!!

 

[skye]

Let them close!

Nobody wants to be robbed!

Good on them

 

[Moonglow]

Dems say blacks are too stupid to do that.
Just like dems say blacks are too stupid to get a drivers license to vote.

That is not what they say, they say that having to purchase an ID is the same as a poll tax.

 

[Moonglow]

Walmart on Tuesday confirmed it will close a total of 15 stores this year in 12 states and Washington, D.C. The locations that are closing “do not meet our financial expectations,” a spokesperson for the retail giant told WGB.Mar 29, 2023

Walmart is closing 15 stores this year​

 

[Moonglow]

Over the past few years Walmart has announced that they have closed well over 160 locations in 27 states throughout the U.S., affecting over 10,000 employees.

The states hit the hardest in recent years include Texas (29), North Carolina (17), and Arkansas (11). It will be interesting to see what happens in the communities where a Walmart will be closing. Will new local businesses open up and fill the void? I certainly hope so. My guess is that the Target’s and Amazon’s of the world will simply step in and swallow up the competition, but time will tell.

All 160+ Walmart Stores Closing (Or Already Closed) in Recent Years

Want to know what Walmart stores are closing or are already closed? I break it down by state so you can quickly see if your store made the cut.

www.rather-be-shopping.com