Even if they have to close a store for a few hours they can easily loose 5 figures of sales, plus paying wages of employees outside, OT for employees to re-stock abandoned carts, damaged perishable times left in said carts and possible loss of perishable product if the FD had to shut down all power to the store.
Yes, I get it! But my point was that the headline was sensationalistic, not that Walmart didn’t suffer real losses.