Get ready Long Beach because Walmart is reimagining select stores nationwide to experiment with a new concept—one that aims to transform the vast parking lots outside its box stores into fitness, entertainment and dining experiences.
Some schools near the port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach could be in line for improved air quality after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) settled cases with the United States General Services Administration (GSA) and a Wal-Mart subsidiary that will send $300,000 in air filtration equipment to impacted schools.
“Welcome to Disneyland,” a sales associate joked, as a steady and constant stream of people made its way through several rows of zig-zagging cattle gates into the front doors of Walmart in downtown Long Beach this afternoon.
Today, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced it will be closing the downtown Long Beach Walmart on January 28, as part of a series of closures that will shut down 269 stores worldwide.
The Walmart at City Place has an issue and it’s not with their prices: in 2013 alone, the business had over 500 calls for service (CFS) to the Long Beach Police Department (LBPD), prompting concern from Downtown residents that little or nothing was being done about the situation.
A man who called in a fake bomb threat and had the Downtown Long Beach Wal-Mart evacuated for an hour and a half Sunday evening was arrested and charged with multiple violations, police say.
