[ctdonath2]

Walmart has eleven thousand stores. I'd not be surprised that a half-dozen have enough problems that closing them, and doing so abruptly, is the best viable option. Maybe the correct conspiracy theory is that there isn't a common denominator between the stores other than the decision to close them, and to do so together and on very short notice.

[Colehill1999]

the stores were dumps, losing money. So they closed them fast - they made the SMART business decision.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Walmart has eleven thousand stores.***

Not bad for a Mom and Pop store on the west side of the square in Bentonville. Then one day Sam took a chance to buy a series of bankrupt Ben Franklin stores and changed the name from WALTON’S 5&10 to WALMART.
The first man to break the economic stranglehold of the Chicken Men who only paid starvation wages.