Walmart to shut another store next month as total for 2024 hits seven

Walmart is shutting another two stores next month - bringing the total closures announced this year to eight. Bosses said the two stores - in California and Wisconsin - were not making enough money. Walmart, which has already shut six in 2024 , is among several major retailers to announce closures.

Earlier in April, dollar store 99 Cents Only said it will shutter ALL its 371 shops , while Best Buy closed ten in March. Dollar Tree is closing 1,000, Macy's 150 - a third of its total - and drug store Rite Aid 77 . Below, DailyMail.com lists all the eight Walmart closures for this year and the 23 from last year - and here is a map showing where they are in the US.

The eight closures for Walmart this year come after it shut 23 last year. California has already seen four Walmarts shut so far in 2024. The retailer shut two in the state on February 9. One of those in February was a Neighborhood Market in San Diego. Another a standard Walmart in El Cajon, 16 miles outside San Diego.

The retailer then shut a supercenter in West Covina - 20 miles east of Los Angeles - on March 29. A fourth to go in California was a Sacramento-area store on April 12. Meanwhile, on February 16, a store on South High Street in Columbus Ohio was shut.

And a Walmart in a shopping center in Towson in Maryland closed on April 5, after 20 years. The other two closures announced this week will happen over the next month. Affecting 105 workers, a store in Milwaukee, Wisconcin has its final day on Friday, May 17.

A week later, a superstore with 156 staff shuts in Freemont in the Bay Area of California. The Freemont store was targeted by thieves in recent years. Walmart hopes staff can transfer to nearby stores that remain open. Supercentres, which employ about 300 people across around 182,000 square foot, are the standard big-box Walmart outlets that sell everything from groceries to electronics and home furnishings.

Walmart Neighborhood Markets - employing about 95 people and covering 38,000 square feet - are smaller. They focus on food, household supplies and normally have a pharmacy. Overall last year, Walmart's total number of stores fell by 102, from 4,717 in January 2023 to 4,615 a year later. That's because - in addition to the 23 standard store closures - Walmart got rid of a combined 79 Moosejaw and Bonobos locations after selling the two retailers.

Despite the closures, Walmart has pledged to open 150 new stores over the next five years. And it also said that for this year it would remodel 650 stores across 47 state . Last year, major US chains including Target, CVS, Macy's and Rite Aid were behind nearly 3,000 stores closures in 2023 . Walmart has also been in the news this week after DailyMail.com reported it is continuing to remove self-checkout machines from its stores.

In two stores - in Shrewsbury, Missouri , and Cleveland, Ohio - the retailer said it would replace kiosks with staffed checkout lanes which will 'give our associates the chance to provide more personalized and efficient service.' In reality, many stores are ditching self-checkout kiosks because they are especially vulnerable to theft, an issue which retailers claim in recent years have been plaguing their businesses and forcing them to shut locations altogether.

'Most of the rollback of self-checkouts is due to retailer concerns over theft,' Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData, told DailyMail.com. The U-turn of the world's largest retailer may serve as a landmark moment in what appears to have been a failed self-checkout experiment that lasted years.

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