Walmart will close two more stores next month, bringing The total number of closures announced this year is eight.
Bosses said the two stores, in California and Wisconsin, were not making enough money.
Walmart, which has already closed six in 2024, is among several major retailers that have announced closures.
In early April, dollar store 99 Cents Only said it would close ALL of its 371 stores, while Best Buy closed ten. in March. dollar tree is closing 1,000, Macy’s 150 -a third of its total- and pharmacy Help Rite 77.
Below, DailyMail.com lists this year’s eight Walmart closures and last year’s 23, and here’s a map showing where they are in the US.
Walmart announces eight store closures so far in 2024. Last year it closed 23
Walmart will close this store at 40580 Albrae St, Freemont, California, on May 24.
Walmart will close this store at 7025 W Main St, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 17.
Walmart’s eight closures this year come after it closed 23 last year.
Four Walmarts have already closed in California so far in 2024. The retailer closed two in the state on February 9.
One of those in February was a neighborhood market in San Diego. Another, a standard Walmart in El Cajon, 16 miles from San Diego.
Eight closures in 2024
California:
2121 Imperial Ave. in San Diego* – closed February 9
605 Fletcher Parkway in El Cajon – closed February 9
2753 E. Eastland Center Dr in West Covina – closed March 29
4080 Douglas Blvd in Granite Bay* – closed April 12
40580 Albrae St, Freemont, closing May 24
Maryland:
1238 Putty Hill Ave in Towson – closed April 5
Ohio:
3579 S. High St. in Columbus – closed February 16
Wisconsin
7025 West Main Street, Milwaukee – Closes May 17
* Neighborhood markets
The retailer then closed a supercenter in West Covina, 20 miles east of Los Angeles, on March 29.
A fourth store in California was a Sacramento-area store on April 12.
Meanwhile, on February 16, a store on South High Street in Columbus Ohio was closed.
And a Walmart in a shopping center in Towson, Maryland, closed on April 5, after 20 years.
The other two closures announced this week will occur over the next month.
Affecting 105 workers, a store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has its last day on Friday, May 17.
A week later, a hypermarket with 156 employees closes in Freemont, in California’s Bay Area.
The Freemont store has been targeted by thieves in recent years.
Walmart hopes staff can move to nearby stores that remain open.
The supercenters, which employ about 300 people in about 182,000 square feet, are standard large Walmart stores that sell everything from groceries to electronics to home furnishings.
Walmart’s neighborhood markets, which employ about 95 people and cover 38,000 square feet, are smaller. They focus on food, household items and usually have a pharmacy.
Overall, last year, the total number of Walmart stores fell by 102, from 4,717 in January 2023 to 4,615 a year later.
That’s because, in addition to the standard 23 store closures, Walmart divested a combined 79 Moosejaw and Bonobos locations after selling to the two retailers.
Despite the closures, Walmart has committed to opening 150 new stores over the next five years.
And he also said that this year he would remodel 650 stores in 47 states.
Last year, major US chains including Target, CVS, Macy’s and Rite Aid were behind the closure of nearly 3,000 stores in 2023.
Walmart has also been in the news this week after DailyMail.com reported that it continues eliminate self-checkout machines of their stores.
At two stores, in Shrewsbury, Missouri, and Cleveland, Ohio, the retailer said it would replace kiosks with staffed checkout lanes that will “give our associates the opportunity to provide more personalized and efficient service.”
At two stores, in Missouri and Ohio, Walmart will completely replace self-checkout machines with “traditional” staffed lanes, as shown in the image.
In reality, many stores are abandoning self-checkout kiosks because they are especially vulnerable to theft, a problem that retailers say has been plaguing their businesses in recent years and forcing them to close locations entirely.
“Most of the reduction in self-checkout systems is due to retailers’ concerns about theft,” Neil Saunders, CEO of GlobalData, told DailyMail.com.
The U-turn by the world’s largest retailer may serve as a landmark moment in what appears to have been a years-long failed self-checkout experiment.
Other Walmart news
CLASS ACTION
Are YOU eligible for a $500 payment from Walmart’s $45 million class action settlement?
Walmart shoppers who bought bags of citrus or packages of meat in recent years are urged to check if they are eligible for a piece of a $45 million settlement.
The deadline to file a claim as part of a class action is quickly approaching on June 5, 2024.
Walmart is accused of overcharging customers because its machines inflated the weight of meat and seafood products.
NEW PAYMENT
A checkout change is on the way at Sam’s Club stores aimed at speeding up wait times for shoppers, the head of its parent company Walmart has confirmed.
The membership-based warehouse store, Walmart’s version of Costco, will allow customers to scan and pay for their purchases with an app on their phone and simply walk out the door.
“At Sam’s Club US, we are implementing new check-out technology that allows our members to simply scan and leave after completing their transaction on their phone,” Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said on an earnings call last week. last week.