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Walmart Inc. (/ ˈ w ɔː l m ɑːr t / ⓘ; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States and 23 other countries. It is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. [16]
Walmart - groceries, clothing, general merchandise Walmart Supercenter; Walmart Neighborhood Market; Walmart Express (defunct) Wet Seal - clothing (defunct) Whole Foods Market - groceries, emphasizing 'natural', locally-sourced and organic products; Wickes Furniture - furniture (defunct) The Wiz - home electronics (defunct)
James Read founded the company on June 11, 1946, in San Francisco, California. [3] [4] [6] He bought government surplus food products and sold them in previously vacant stores throughout San Francisco. [3] [6] [13] He named his new company Cannery Sales. [6] [13] In 1970, Cannery Sales acquired Globe of California and renamed it Canned Foods ...
The following page is a list of shopping malls in the U.S. state of California. The largest malls, with a gross leasable area of at least 400,000 sq ft (37,000 m 2), are in bold font, with a ranking number based on size and date.
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.
Grupo Big, formerly Walmart Brazil, which was de-consolidated from Walmart in August 2018 and now a part of carrefour group, also operates about 50 Sam's Club locations in Brazil. Locations generally range in size from 32,000–168,000 sq ft (3,000–15,600 m 2 ), with an average club size of approximately 134,000 sq ft (12,400 m 2 ). [ 5 ]
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 operations or closing them. As of 2023, two of the former Hypermart USA locations still operate as Walmarts while the other two have been demolished.
Panorama Mall is a mall in Panorama City, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California. It is an enclosed mall anchored by two large discount stores, Walmart and Curacao, aimed primarily at a Hispanic customer base. The mall originally opened as the open-air Broadway–Valley shopping center in 1955. [1]