'Walmart to Go' Convenience Store a Go - First opens in Bentonville, AR

[sinkingfeeling]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- After more than a year of planning and intense media curiosity, the Walmart to Go convenience store "quietly" opened in Bentonville, Ark., on March 15, with the grand opening set for March 19, reported The City Wire. It is Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s new effort to capture a different and growing element of the retail market.

The newspaper described the small store is a "hybrid format--part traditional convenience store, part grocery, part quick-serve restaurant." The site also features six canopied gasoline dispensers.

http://www.cspnet.com/category-management-news-data/general-merchandise-news-data/articles/walmart-go-convenience-store-go

[djean111]

1. This will scoop up money from the poor who cannot travel far,

but will pay three times as much for soda, chips, and other stuff at convenience stores, rather than go to a bigger store. Money from the tradespeople who buy overpriced coffee and donuts in the morning, and soda, cigarettes and beer on the way home.
Never got my son to recognise this, but my grandson is working and agrees - convenience stores are a little part of what keeps poor people poor, at least around here.

[blueamy66]

9. But, doesn't everybody do this?

It's a "convenience". Especially when you're on a road trip. Hell, I've spent $25 on crap on road trips!

I'm not saying it's a good thing, but it is what it is.

[djean111]

11. I don't. I just buy my gas, and leave.

I never thought about it until I saw how much money my son and his friends spent, buying coffee and candy bars and cigarettes and chips and Pepsi on the way to work, and buying beer on the way home.
In a poor neighborhood south of me, the kids are sent to the store during the day and are wandering around drinking soda and eating potato chips - their families pay through the nose for this.
I think that in neighborhoods that are underserved for grocery stores and public transportation, this is a problem.
Just my personal opinion!

One of the worst commercials I have seen is a really well-dressed woman buying gas and then bringing her kids in to pick out soda and snacks and charging everything. What a lesson to teach!

[blueamy66]

12. I agree that it is a problem in neighborhoods without grocery stores.

But I don't see people changing their behavior.

The prices are ridiculous.

[snooper2]

2. Oh great here we go

next we will see

McWalmarts popping up

[snappyturtle]

3. Walmart is like cancer...now it's found another host. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

4. They've also announced plans to 'home deliver' groceries from online in major

cities and have entered the 'used' video game market.

[snappyturtle]

5. Oh goodie!

More for me to avoid. Thank you for the heads up!

[Logical]

7. Why is home grocery delivery a bad thing? Or just walmart in general? n-t

[snappyturtle]

13. I think home grocery delivery is wonderful! I prefer to see it as a

service of smaller grocery stores or from individual delivery services. I think Walmart was huge in
outsourcing our jobs....hence, my prejudice.

[Logical]

14. I agree. n-t

[cyberswede]

6. Now I can avoid them more conveniently.

[LordGlenconner]

8. So it's still a miserable experience

But only in a smaller structure.

[bluedigger]

10. Sounds like a larger version of the store I work at now.

We have 12 pumps, have a small kitchen with 1-2 daytime employees, are open 24/7, and service our local communities' salt, sugar, fat, nicotine, alcohol (well 3.2 beer ) and petrochemical needs.

They just broke ground for a new and larger store on the other side of town last week, on the other side of the Walmart. Bring it on, Bentonville!