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Available reporting is conflicted about whether Walmart permanently closed specific stores in 2025: several outlets and aggregators published lists naming 11 stores across states such as California, G...
closed a series of brick‑and‑mortar locations in 2024 that, by multiple reporters’ counts, totaled about 11 standalone stores nationwide while the company separately exited its 51 after deeming that b...
Reporting on Walmart store closures for 2025 is inconsistent: multiple outlets published lists saying roughly 10–11 U.S. Walmarts would close in 2025 across about six states (with frequent mentions of...
Walmart says it has “no current plans to close any stores in 2025,” a spokesperson told Fast Company, which directly contradicts multiple media lists that circulated naming as many as 11 Walmart locat...
Recent reporting indicates ’s latest round of closures disproportionately hits lower-income, low-density (rural) communities—with an especially large share of shuttered locations concentrated in the —...
State-level responses to 2024 audit findings have been a mix of corrective plans, legislative oversight, and agency policy changes — often driven by specific audit programs such as California’s State ...
Available reporting shows small, scattered Walmart closures in 2025 rather than a concentrated, multi‑state wave; multiple outlets list individual U.S. store shutdowns (not thousands) with California ...