Our favorite Walmart Super Center is going to close in April 2019

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They say the Walmart Super Center on Wheatland Road off Hampton Road is closing forever. I thought it was just a rumor, but I bought a Dallas Morning News paper today for Wednesday, April 3, 2019. When it closes around 400 people will be looking for a new job some place else. The number of people who get their medications from that Walmart's pharmacy will be out of luck and those who rely on a bus to get to that store will not be able to take a bus ride to the other store that is a few miles West of that location. It is going to be a wake up call to local businesses that reflects the current state of our local and our national retail economy that has been on the decline over the last few decades, with heavy competition by online retail companies that are essentially changing the dynamics of retail in an ever growing cyber economy. I think it is set to close on after April 19th, 2019. Maybe around April 26. There is a link at the bottom of this post. I think you will see by doing more research that this is not the only Walmart Super Center closing across the USA. From the Business Insider, below is a link to an article that indicates that around 11 Walmart Stores will be closing but actually overall, in the entire US, the number of closings is around 100 or more. And there are closings taking place in other countries around the globe. Is one of them a Walmart near you? https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-stores-closing-list-2019-3 This other article is form Wall Street Journal online with a list of closings that covers all of them so far. https://graphics.wsj.com/table/walmart_012016 I will miss that store. Today we had to drive farther to the newer Walmart Super Center, located about 4 to 5 miles west on Wheatland Road and thankfully they had an Amigo cart for my wife to ride on and shop as she can not walk two football fields length in that store! The ride along electric shopping carts were all gone at the old location due to theft, believe it or not. That old Walmart was a good place to shop at and I don't think they were all that bad. They were going down hill over the past few months, even though they made a good go at it. They had an in store McDonald's and a unisex hair salon so men and women could get a hair cut for a good price. I would get a hair cut there and then go have a coffee at the Micky D's in the store, then go look for my wife and walk around sipping good coffee and help her pick out groceries. That store has been a place we liked to shop at for years, since it first was built. The other Walmart is I think, a bit newer, but they do not sell hot coffee there. I wonder why they were supposedly losing so much money as to have to force a closing? The people who work there will have to search elsewhere for work and the customers will have to drive to other locations. It's not a good thing. In my opinion, that store was at a prime location and I do not fully agree that closing that store will be that good for the local community in my own opinion. I tend to grow attached to local stores and even enjoy the people I talk to who work there. Oh well, I guess I will be able to adjust to the changes. It's a good thing there is another Walmart Super Center off Ledbetter, aka Loop 12, at Hwy 35 E aka, R.L. Thornton Freeway in south-west Oak Cliff and they also do not sell hot coffee ready to drink. But they do have Starbucks bottled frappuccinos in little refrigerators at the registers. It's not a totally bad thing. Here below is a link to an article from CBS DFW online. Here is a link for you to look at from Forbes online https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2018/11/19/what-to-expect-from-walmarts-fiscal-2019/#272286c02eab