Walmart closing 4 locations in Chicago
Posted By: AltaD, 4/11/2023 2:04:29 PM
Chicago: Walmart plans to close four stores in Chicago by mid-April, the company announced Tuesday. The following stores will close on Sunday, April 16: (Snip) Officials with the department store cited profit margins as the reasoning behind the closing. “The simplest explanation is that collectively our Chicago stores have not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago – these stores lose tens of millions of dollars a year, and their annual losses nearly doubled in just the last five years. The remaining four Chicago stores continue to face the same business difficulties,
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