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[beenz]

Walmart Closing Stores In Bronzeville, Chatham, Little Village And Lakeview Sunday

CHICAGO — Walmart is closing four full-service stores this weekend, including three on the South Side. The announcement comes just two months after

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End of a Era

this sucks. and even tho I rarely use this walmart, I hate to see another big box retailer leaving the neighborhood after what happened with target a few years ago.

 

[beenz]

They're loosing tons of money.. Employees AND customers are stealing. Same problem they had with Target on cottage. Plus the consistent shooting and killing of people on and around the property doesn't make things better. F*cked up situation all around..

if they were gonna close down, why not do it after the george floyd lootings instead of building up and even adding more to the land like the walmart academy??? I don't believe they were losing tons of money as that place stays packed, but someone did get murdered behind there a few weeks ago however. the people this hurts are the ones without reliable transportation. I can easily drive down to the one on doty road, but for some folks, that's not feasible.

 

[beenz]

I’d like to see their books

I don’t think they losing money likely they saying. Same with ALDI closing up shop

Something else is going on

I agree. I don't think they are losing money as there's a bunch of other stores adjacent to that walmart in the area.

are u referring to the aldi on 76th and ashland? ironically that was next to one of the remaining walmarts. this time they closed the walmart that's adjacent to an aldi.

 

[beenz]

Damn shame. I knew the manager at the Marshalls on 87th and they closed for the same reason. Theft.

I remember the day of the george floyd riots, I rode my bike over to where food 4 less was, and as we all know nikkas was looting everything. they were running up out the grocery store with all kinds of alcohol and shyt. never seen anything like it in person.

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

Heard they supposed to be having fire sales up in there

Lemme run my ass in there for a min

 

[beenz]

it's not just walmarts in chicago. they been closing them all over the US

Walmart is closing a batch of stores in 2023 — here's the full list

Walmart is set to close 19 US stores in 11 states and DC, in addition to shuttering its pickup-only concepts in Illinois and Arkansas.

www.businessinsider.com

Walmart is closing a batch of stores in 2023 — here's the full list​

Ben Tobin and Dominick Reuter
Apr 11, 2023, 2:52 PM

Walmart will close 19 stores in 11 states and Washington, DC. ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images

• Walmart will close 19 stores in 11 states and Washington, DC. Four Chicago stores are the latest to join the list.
• The company is also winding down its two remaining pickup locations in Illinois and Arkansas.
• Hundreds of workers will also be laid off at five ecommerce fulfillment centers across the US.

 

[beenz]

Heard they supposed to be having fire sales up in there

Lemme run my ass in there for a min

I'm not setting foot in that place. u know it's gonna be more packed that usual. matter of fact, I'm bout to go to the gym which is right next door and I'll see how crowded it is.

 

[Tanahashi Coates]

Heard they supposed to be having fire sales up in there

Lemme run my ass in there for a min

Keep us posted. Might head over there to get some stuff for the low

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

Of course they looting 83rd


And y’all nikkas wonder why y’all can’t have nothing

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

 

[AtomicUse]

These updates.

This is why I shop at Pete’s.

*edit
Pete’s just got robbed.

 

[Barnett114]

Walmart simply doesn't work in big cities. You won't find any in LA or NYC

 

[Barnett114]

Damn at these election takes, they were all wrong.

Aside from elections, looking at most of the takes in here.

 

[jilla82]

We gonna have to have a conversation on how a certain group of people in our community deserve all the stereotypes they get




I call them the 79thians

as someone that used to live on 79th

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

Was y’all Saturday cool?

Mine wasnt