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The Walmart chain proper was founded in 1962 with a single store in Rogers, Arkansas, expanding inside Oklahoma by 1968 and throughout the rest of the Southern United States by the 1980s, ultimately operating a store in every state of the United States, plus its first stores in Canada, by 1995.
The first true Walmart opened on July 2, 1962, in Rogers, Arkansas. [22] Called the Wal-Mart Discount City store, it was located at 719 West Walnut Street. He launched a determined effort to market American-made products.
The Original Goods. When Sam Walton opened the first Walmart on July 2, 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas, he wanted to give customers unparalleled bargains on a wide variety of products.
The first Walmart Supercenter, which used a floorplan in the 125,000 sq ft (11,600 m 2) range, was opened in 1988 in Washington, Missouri. [3] As the Supercenter proved to be a much more profitable experiment, Walmart renamed the stores "Wal-Mart's Hypermart USA" in April 1990, and eventually began either converting them to Supercenter ...
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in a statement on X said she had been briefed on the “tragic shooting” in Fordyce and is in “constant contact” with state police at the scene.
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An unarmed Leadford was later shot in the throat by Springdale Police and arrested in a parking lot of a Wal-Mart on the evening of Joseph Erin Hamley's shooting death. Director of Arkansas State Police Col. Steve Dozier stated at a press conference in Springdale, Arkansas on March 10, 2006 "Leadford had a .22 caliber rifle when he was stopped."
The suspect in the Arkansas grocery store shooting, Travis Eugene Posey, 44, allegedly opened fire at the Mad Butcher in Fordyce on Friday, killing four people ages 23 to 81 and wounding nine others.