Walmart tends to be heavy handed in anything they do, at least as of late.
However, since I don’t know the area there may be good reason for doing this, like too many trucks at once.
Gardner is well outside the Kansas City area but this particular Walmart is not far off I -35.
I shopped there, occasionally, more than 10 years ago. Maybe once since then.
Walmart always welcomed truckers and campers to stay in their lots at night. For one thing, these people will usually shop there as well.
Are they going to do this to the campers too?
Walmart has had an informal policy of allowing this sort of thing in many locations, but there are typically two reasons why they crack down on it at specific stores:
1. The store may be located in a shopping center where overnight parking is prohibited under a lease provision or a municipal zoning regulation.
2. In areas where crime is a problem, their lawyers or insurance carriers tell them to prohibit overnight parking to protect themselves from lawsuits by crime victims on their property.
For years, semi’s and RV’s could over nite at Walmart. I have done so occasionally.
At my local Walmart, the practice has apparently ceased. I don’t see trucks and especially RV’s in the area formerly designated
So, there must have been change as a result of some lawsuit