People don’t realize that Wal-Mart has more stores than a lot of medium sized companies have employees. To put it in perspective, a better way of seeing this is they are a medium sized company that just laid off five employees for the same reason. It just SEEMS odd that they would close the stores for the reason they stated.
i.e. this is probably legit.
BTW, when I lived in Seattle there was a bread store in Loeman’s mall (Factoria area) called Harvest Breads or something like that. It’s a Seattle chain. Anyway, they closed down the store and laid everyone off because it was “underperforming”.
In reality, they closed it down because one of the employees was a “practicing witch” and scaring the heck out of everyone to the point that the company really HAD to get rid of the person. However, they feared both legal and, much more significantly, personal retribution from the person involved. So the safe route was to “close” the store and then re-open it six months late - in the same location and with no remodeling changes.
There could be something “generically wrong” at these five wally world stores and they are just going for the long term fix.
What was wrong at that Tulsa store is that it was a CRIME-INFESTED, even by Wal-Mart standards (their stores are usually crime-feasted anyway). This store was FAR BEYOND what normally goes on in other Wal-Mart stores!
That’s an interesting story about the practicing witch! ... :-) ...
Insightful cuban.
I suspect they closed these stores for some reason PC hysterics would find offensive - and they didn’t want to deal with liberal crazies for years.
No one wants to deal with liberal crazies and their paid internet trolls...