{"id":30631,"date":"2016-01-15T13:27:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T18:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=30631"},"modified":"2022-01-30T21:34:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T03:34:10","slug":"six-walmart-stores-in-north-mississippi-set-to-close-january-28-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/six-walmart-stores-in-north-mississippi-set-to-close-january-28-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Walmart Stores in North Mississippi Set to Close January 28, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\" authorLocation\"><b>Bentonville, Ark.<\/b>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<\/span>Six Walmart stores in <strong>Mississippi<\/strong> are among the more than 250 stores that the retailer will shutter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Stores in <strong>Belmont, Mantachie, Sardis, Walnut, Derma,<\/strong> and <strong>Nettleton<\/strong> are scheduled to close January 28, 2016, according to a news release from the discount retailing giant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Walmart announced Friday that 269 stores, including 154 locations in the United States, will be closed, affecting 16,000 workers worldwide. The closures are a fraction of the company\u2019s 11,000 stores worldwide and less than 1 percent of its global revenue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The announcement comes three months after its CEO <strong>Doug McMillon<\/strong> told investors the world&#8217;s largest retailer would review its store locations in amid increasing competition on all fronts, including from online rival Amazon.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.walmart.com\/news-archive\/2016\/01\/15\/walmart-continues-sharpened-focus-on-portfolio-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For a full list of closures, click here.<\/a>&nbsp;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bentonville, Ark.&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Six Walmart stores in Mississippi are among the more than 250 stores that the retailer will shutter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":30633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[7615,7618,7620,7616,5,7619,2216,1759,7617],"class_list":["post-30631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-belmont","tag-derma","tag-doug-mcmillon","tag-mantachie","tag-mississippi","tag-nettleton","tag-sardis","tag-walmart","tag-walnut"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/walmart_sign_ap_img-1.jpg?fit=1500%2C1000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}