Wal-Mart Announces First Store Closings Of The Year

Retail giant Wal-Mart has announced its first store closings for 2024.

Two stores in San Diego, California will be the first to go, with more sure to come as the year continues.

The closures come amid a turbulent macroeconomic outlook for big box retailers and are not due to any single reason, but, rather, a basket case of issues.

High crime, underperformance, and the loss of market share to online retailers have all contributed to the recent store closures.

Instead of continuing to operate these physical locations, the retail giant will choose to focus on the growing e-commerce industry and leverage their online presence.

This begs the question: how can any big box or brick-and-mortar retailers compete with online companies? The cost of maintaining a physical store with an army of employees for each geographical location is immense.

This has been a growing problem for the last 15 years or so, but when Wal-Mart can’t compete it shows that there is a structural problem.

As more businesses and organizations choose to go digital, how will this affect things like commercial real estate?

Everything is connected and this is just one more sign that we are headed toward extremely troubling economic developments. Here’s more on the story:

Walmart reportedly closing its innovation hub in the latest retailer cost cut https://t.co/GSXFc5IfO4

— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) January 19, 2024

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— Creatuity Corp. (@Creatuity) January 22, 2024

The Sun provided the addresses for the two store closures:

The location at 2121 Imperial Ave. in San Diego and at 605 Fletcher Parkway in El Cajon will both shut down on February 9. Everything is 25% off at the store in El Cajon.

NBC 7 San Diego reports: “People in the Logan Heights neighborhood of San Diego are losing a grocery option. Walmart announced it’s closing two of its locations in February, one in El Cajon and the other in Logan Heights.”

People in the Logan Heights neighborhood of San Diego are losing a grocery option. Walmart announced it’s closing two of its locations in February, one in El Cajon and the other in Logan Heights. https://t.co/0oGhreRp2v

— NBC 7 San Diego (@nbcsandiego) January 20, 2024

Walmart closing more stores in 2024https://t.co/ezxuP6t2h2

— Walter Straiten (@WalterStra86430) January 19, 2024

Last year, CNN revealed:

Walmart announced Tuesday that next week it will close four poor-performing stores out of the eight it operates in Chicago.

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Three of the locations are located in Chicago’s South and West Side neighborhoods, which are predominantly minority and have long struggled with grocery and retail access.

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A Boycott means not shopping somewhere due to principles to make a statement.

But a BUYcott is really powerful.

A Buycott means you actually move your shopping somewhere else.

A Boycott is kind of like a strike at work.

Eventually most workers on strike just go right back to work at the same place.

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Check out this clip from CNN below…

Of course, most of what CNN says here is nonsensical gaslighting about “inclusion” and how bad the right wing is.

Their typical drivel.

But some truth comes out in this segment — watch (transcript of highlights below):

"Inclusion is good, and they know that, but they are trying to figure out how do you navigate like Target or Bud Light when you have so many people online are demanding that you boycott a product simply for being inclusive?"@ChristineRomans on GOP culture wars: pic.twitter.com/ixsJSkcnyt

— CNN This Morning (@CNNThisMorning) June 19, 2023

From the video:

Christine Romans:  . . . I think it caught the C-Suites by surprise, this right wing culture warrior movement. Inclusion has always been good business for these companies. Their employees want it, their customers want it. It’s always been, uh, a good business. And on earnings calls for years, you’ve heard these CEOs and CFOs talk about inclusion, uh, diversity and equity and inclusion, and all of a sudden they’re a little bit quieter about that because they’re seeing these instances where their brand has been pillared for being inclusive. And so they’re trying to figure out how to tread this water.

Ron Brownstein: You know, these boycotts have to be seen, I think, as part of a broader movement. I mean, the Red States in many ways are building a nation within a nation on all sorts of issues . . . these companies, much as they wanna stay out of it, ultimately have to decide are they going to embrace the changing America, or they’re going to embrace this effort to, in effect, make America great again by going back to older rules and older values.

Christine Romans:  . . . How you respond by not giving in to the right wing attack mob, but acknowledging, you know, your position. I think that’s for C-Suites, that’s what they’ve gotta figure out. The rapid response for the communications teams has gotta be better. You could lose either way . . .

Ron Brownstein: The pressure is working on the C-suites — they’re pulling back.

The boycotts and buycotts ARE working!

So…that begs the question: if you stop shopping at Target, where should you go?

Down the street to another big box store probably owned by the same big investors and selling the same products owned by Blackrock, Vanguard and StateStreet?

NO!

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