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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: makattak on January 15, 2016, 09:27:56 AM
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/15/walmart-to-close-154-stores-in-us-10000-workers-affected.html?intcmp=hplnws
Or, the headline sure tries to suggest that.
From the article, is seems they are mostly shutting down the "Walmart Express" locations, signalling they've given up competing directly with Dollar General.
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I've never even heard of Wal-Mart Express. I guess I won't miss it, then.
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I've never even heard of Wal-Mart Express. I guess I won't miss it, then.
Think Dollar General with Walmart branding. There aren't many of them.
Chris
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I've never even heard of Wal-Mart Express. I guess I won't miss it, then.
ditto.
enough dollar stores around here.
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If they'll kill off the "neighborhood markets" (grocery only Walmarts) too, we'll be in much better shape. I hate punching Walmart into the GPS when I'm far from home and need socks or a taillight bulb and being directed to one of those. Usually right across the street from an Albertson's or Tom Thumb.
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In the U.S., 154 locations will be closed, most of them small format stores called Walmart Express, which were launched as a test program in 2011.
A "test program" of ~154 stores. :O
Oh, well, my warm-up set for the bench press is also absurd to some folk.
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Note that a lot of these stores are in a foreign location. (Brazil) Draw whatever conclusion you want from that.
Makes me wonder how many of the domestic stores being closed are in nasty places. (Ferguson, perhaps?)
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Woolworth fell, so will Wal-Mart someday.
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Note that a lot of these stores are in a foreign location. (Brazil) Draw whatever conclusion you want from that.
Makes me wonder how many of the domestic stores being closed are in nasty places. (Ferguson, perhaps?)
Faithful Ferguson Correspondent here:
There is a "Super Center" in Ferguson. I haven't seen any "Express" stores around here in person, or on the Googlmaps.
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If they'll kill off the "neighborhood markets" (grocery only Walmarts) too, we'll be in much better shape. I hate punching Walmart into the GPS when I'm far from home and need socks or a taillight bulb and being directed to one of those. Usually right across the street from an Albertson's or Tom Thumb.
:lol:
I remembered you having said that when I posted. I thought you'd appreciate this news.
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Woolworth fell, so will Wal-Mart someday.
If it does, it will be replaced by something in the same niche.
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All the defunct Walmarts and other big-boxes that don't get turned into local community mega-churches... they might make good FOB's for Amazon drones.
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I never knew about the "walmart express" idea. Obviously, they never bothered around here (you can throw a rock in any direction and hit either a Dollar General, Family Tree or the other one, and that doesn't even count the real dollar stores) and I wouldn't have even guessed they would try going smaller, since all I've seen with new Walmarts is new "super centers" and old Walmarts being turned into super centers.
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The store located at Virginia Commonwealth University is closed - not sure how long it has been gone as I only make a run for kimchi at the Korean place near there once a month.
It was like a 7-11 but with higher prices (if that does not tell you a few things) and shorter hours. According to my one and only undergraduate source at VCU the draw was more "It's one block closer than 7-11 and they don't have street people all over the parking lot." (Hard to do when there is no parking lot at the WME. =))
They seem to be less than even competition with the dollar stores as pretty much of of those have grocery staples and I'm told the WME did not.
stay safe.
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The store located at Virginia Commonwealth University is closed - not sure how long it has been gone as I only make a run for kimchi at the Korean place near there once a month.
It was like a 7-11 but with higher prices (if that does not tell you a few things) and shorter hours. According to my one and only undergraduate source at VCU the draw was more "It's one block closer than 7-11 and they don't have street people all over the parking lot." (Hard to do when there is no parking lot at the WME. =))
They seem to be less than even competition with the dollar stores as pretty much of of those have grocery staples and I'm told the WME did not.
stay safe.
There's places around VCU without street people? whodathunkit.
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All the defunct Walmarts and other big-boxes that don't get turned into local community mega-churches... they might make good FOB's for Amazon drones.
No,no,no... they will become FEMA camps. [tinfoil]
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Many people are OK with the stores closing but I for one am alarmed. What will the closings do to the submission of photos to the People of Walmart (http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/) website. Why it could become as irrelevant as WTF Japan (http://www.wtfjapanseriously.com) in a matter of a few years. What will I do for entertainment while the little woman is watching reruns of Golden Girls for 18,000th time?!?!?! I am worried here. ;)
bob
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All the defunct Walmarts and other big-boxes that don't get turned into local community mega-churches... they might make good FOB's for Amazon drones.
I once saw Pearljam play in an emptied out grocery store so that is an option. Soundgarden was the headliner on that one.
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No,no,no... they will become FEMA camps. [tinfoil]
LIKE I SAID...
All the defunct Walmarts and other big-boxes that don't get turned into local community mega-churches... they might make good FOB's for Amazon drones.
[tinfoil]
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As long as we're playing this game, I have heard of a Christian denomination that started out by holding services in a former grocery store in the Illinois.
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If the can be repurposed as mosques, maybe "the faithful" can do their daily prayers without clogging up the sidewalks and the streets.
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As long as we're playing this game, I have heard of a Christian denomination that started out by holding services in a former grocery store in the Illinois.
I like the way you craft your sentences. "The Illinois."
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The ones here in Oklahoma have only been open for a year or so. Some of the complaints are they came in and as usual run of the "mom & pop" places that were local and now closing up, leaving them with nothing.
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According to a local news report, at least some of the closures were due to excessive shoplifting and other crime-related losses.
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According to a local news report, at least some of the closures were due to excessive shoplifting and other crime-related losses.
Crazy talk. It's clearly because white people are trying to build food deserts. There's no other logical explanation why a business would close and/or move out of a neighborhood.
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According to a local news report, at least some of the closures were due to excessive shoplifting and other crime-related losses.
We have one closing here that probably falls in to that category. If you're familiar with Vegas, it's the one where Nellis, Craig, and NLVB meet.
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Crazy talk. It's clearly because white people are trying to build food deserts. There's no other logical explanation why a business would close and/or move out of a neighborhood.
Quiet! They'll hear you!