EVERETT WALMART, EVERETT, WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES – 2023/04/19: An exterior view of a closing Walmart store in Everett. A Walmart store in Everett, Washington, announced its closure and is currently in a liquidation sale. With this, a lot of Walmart employees have lost their jobs. (Photo by Chin Hei Leung/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Walmart already has a huge U.S. footprint. But the retail giant sees room to get even bigger.
The company plans to add 150 more of its large stores over the next five years, it said Wednesday. Some of the locations will be converted from a smaller format to have a full range of groceries and merchandise, but the majority will be new stores, Josh Havens, a company spokesman said.
Walmart declined to say how much the new stores will cost and where they will be located. The company already has more than 4,600 stores across the country.
Walmart’s store expansion was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
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