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Walmart will only close e-commerce stores in Bentonville in 2014, a spokesman told Grocery Dive
The retailer applied what it learned about people’s online shopping needs and preferences from the pilot across its e-commerce operations, prompting the company to make what Courier Word described as a “tough decision” to to close its Bentonville branch along with its Lincolnwood counterpart, which opened in 2019, according to a spokesman. Both locations will remain closed through Feb. 17, and Walmart “will continue to improve our pickup and delivery services to better serve our customers,” a spokesman said in an email.
The specialty e-commerce locations, which are closing this week, are much smaller than traditional Walmart supercenters, which can be more than 200,000 square feet.The Bentonville store, located at 3701 SE Dodson Road in the same city as Walmart’s headquarters, spans about 25,000 square feet, according to a spokesman. Meanwhile, the Lincolnwood location at 6840 N. McCormick Blvd. in a suburb of Chicago covering an area of approximately 41,700 square feet.
Walmart also previously operated a pickup-only store in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, Louisiana, which it closed last year, the spokesman said.The
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full-service stores that Walmart plans to close next month are in Homewood, Illinois. (17550 S. Halsted St.); Plainfield, Illinois (12690 S. Route 59); Milwaukee (10330 W. Silver Spring Drive); Albuquerque, NM (301 San Mateo Blvd SE); and Pinellas Park, Fla. (6900 U.S. Highway 19 N.).