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WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« on: January 15, 2016, 09:27:56 AM »
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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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2016, 09:54:09 AM »
I've never even heard of Wal-Mart Express. I guess I won't miss it, then.
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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2016, 10:06:56 AM »
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.   

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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2016, 10:16:00 AM »
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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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2016, 10:18:07 AM »
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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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2016, 10:26:26 AM »
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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 

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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2016, 11:33:24 AM »
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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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2016, 12:11:43 PM »
Woolworth fell, so will Wal-Mart someday.
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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2016, 01:39:50 PM »
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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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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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2016, 02:05:55 PM »
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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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2016, 02:12:19 PM »
Woolworth fell, so will Wal-Mart someday.

If it does, it will be replaced by something in the same niche.
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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2016, 02:34:34 PM »
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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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2016, 02:43:12 PM »
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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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2016, 02:51:37 PM »
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.

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« Reply #14 on: January 15, 2016, 04:28:57 PM »
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.

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There's places around VCU without street people? whodathunkit.
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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #15 on: January 15, 2016, 04:33:03 PM »
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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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #16 on: January 15, 2016, 05:18:50 PM »
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 website. Why it could become as irrelevant as WTF Japan 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. ;)

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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #17 on: January 15, 2016, 09:25:55 PM »
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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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2016, 09:51:30 PM »
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.


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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #19 on: January 16, 2016, 12:16:30 AM »
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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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #20 on: January 16, 2016, 11:40:39 AM »
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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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #21 on: January 16, 2016, 03:20:05 PM »
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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« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2016, 11:05:41 AM »
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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« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2016, 03:07:18 PM »
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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Re: WALMART is GOING TO DIE!!!
« Reply #24 on: January 18, 2016, 03:10:55 PM »
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.