A Massive retailer is now opening 117 new stores representing over half a billion dollars in capital investments across 30 states.
Walmart on Friday will celebrate the grand reopening of 117 stores and invest more than $9 billion over two years to modernize over 1,400 stores across the U.S.
The retailer said it has revamped the stores with better layouts, wider product selections and various technological improvements as part of its “Signature Experience” initiative, which aims to enhance the shopping experience for customers.
“Among the improvements the retailer has made to its stores are interactive corner displays, larger pharmacies, rooms for nursing parents, QR codes and digital screens with helpful information for shoppers and a Dollar Shop at store entrances with seasonal products,” reports Retail Dive.
Friday is the largest single-day rollout of re-grand openings in company history.
Other store enhancements include larger online grocery pickup and delivery areas and a new grab-and-go section for quick meal and drink options.
Stores also have refreshed exteriors and interiors, more shopping carts and a new checkout design that was based on customer feedback.
In February, Walmart announced plans to shutter two stores in Arkansas and Illinois that only served pickup and delivery orders.
That month, Chief Financial Officer John Rainey said during a fourth quarter earnings call that Walmart’s store-fulfilled deliveries nearly tripled over the past two years.
“With nearly 90% of the U.S. population living within 10 miles of a Walmart, we understand how important our local stores are to customers and communities, and these construction investments allow us to create more local jobs and make it easier for our associates to get customers what they want, when they want it,” CEO John Furner said in a statement about the reopenings.
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Florida now has massive departures as residents leave the state according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Nearly 23,000 people per month departed from Florida in 2022, which is a whopping 275,666.
According to the Census, the most relocated places were Georgia (46,884), North Carolina (42,301), Tennessee (36,200), South Carolina (31,456) and Texas (29,975).
One of the biggest reasons for the Florida exodus, at least according to former residents, is primarily due to the state’s increasingly high insurance.
Joan Keenan is a retired Illinois teacher who moved to Florida two years ago with her husband, who retired from fire service, to live their “retirement dream.”
But “the insurance in Florida is a nightmare,” she told Newsweek.
“Due to the insurance rates going up, we have a different financial dream these days,” Keenan said.
“We live in a small one-bedroom condominium (890 sq. feet) on the intercoastal waterways of Treasure Island,” she added.
“Since we moved here our Association fees have gone from $446.00 dollars a month to $656.00.”
Linda—who preferred to kept her last name anonymous—was born and raised in Brooklyn, moved from New Jersey to Florida in 1983 and thought she had “died and gone to heaven.”
But in August this year, Linda sold her house in Palm Beach County and moved to Pennsylvania, after getting tired of her homeowner’s insurance “not being renewed and being moved to Citizens, not to mention the price increases every year.”
This, in addition to “the worry about the ever-increasing threat of more devastating hurricanes every year, got to be too much.”
“Politics, in Florida, also added to my desire to get out,” Linda said.
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