Wal-Mart to annouce store closings??

[DJ MEW]

I just heard about this from a friend. Does anyone know if this is true, the scale of the closings, or any other information about it.

Please tell me I am not dreaming, and please tell me that all 4 of the stores that they built recently in my general area are going to be shut down.

[LSparkle]

1. Don't they routinely close regular Wal-Marts to open Superstores?

I thought I heard somewhere that Wal-Mart typically will build two or three regular-sized stores, only to close them a few years later, when they build a big Superstore, leaving huge empty buildings out in the middle of nowhere (some of which have become ... get this ... megachurches)?

[shaniqua6392]

5. They are doing that here in Livonia, Michigan....

They had a small store that they are going to close as soon as they get done with the giant Superstore one mile away. I will never shop at Walmart anyway. I just get pissed that they are going to leave another crappy building behind in my city.

[pstokely]

9. They've also done that in Kansas City and Columbia MO

[AndyA]

2. Be careful what you wish for.

I hate Wal-Mart.

They recently opened yet another mega Super Store in town. And at the same time they closed a store 2.5 miles to the north of the new one, and another one 2.5 miles to the south. So now we have two empty, boarded up, ugly buildings. Nice.

There's nothing quite like a closed Wal-Mart store, all boarded up, with weeds coming through the cracks in the parking lot to improve the neighborhood. :eyes:

[Staph]

4. In my mother's neck of the woods . . .

in Huntington, West Virginia, the old Wal-Mart building was converted into a doctors' group building. Mom can go there and get literally all of her medical services, beyond hospitalization and major surgery. It's a lot more useful now.

Of course, it was replaced by not one, but two Wal-Mart Superstores.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

10. It took a decade before they finally did something with our old Wal-Mart

Finally someone turned it into a movie theater.

[cdnwannabe]

3. I think I would dance a jig!

Now if we can get more of the sheeple to shift their dollars to other stores, especially independent or local, we can really make statement.

[Rosemary2205]

6. They do that here too.

They buy up a prime business location. Build on it, then build a new store a mile or two away, close the old one and refuse to rent it or sell it off. They deliberately let a prime business location go to seed to inhibit competition. Why local goverments let them get away with it is a real mystery to me.

[Possumpoint]

7. Wait a Minute!

Wal Mart, Home Depot and Lowe's all do the same thing. It got so bad in this county the supervisors put restrictions on building footprints and what must be done if a large building goes vacant.

[Rosemary2205]

11. The talent in local governments really does make a difference.

Local and state governments impact the quality of our lives so much more than the feds do, and yet we spend most of our time concentrating on that.

It's unfortunate IMHO.

[pstokely]

8. They usually close one when they open a bigger one nearby