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Walmart will shutter 102 of its smaller stores, known as Walmart Express, as it looks to strengthen its Supercenters. The Bentonville, AR-based company will be closing 269 stores total, with 154 of those located in the United States.
The closures, part of a restructuring effort, will impact roughly 16,000 employees, with 10,000 of those in the U.S. The chain noted that "roughly 95 percent" of the stores closing in the U.S. were within 10 miles of another Walmart, so it hopes that affected workers will be able to find positions at other nearby stores.
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