How many Walmarts on one area is enough

[Irving]

Long lines indicates demand. They probably do that on purpose to make it easier to build more stores.

[Aloha_Shooter]

It's enough when supply meets demand. If they could make money with two of them across the street from each other then so be it.

[speedysst]

Along Sheridan there's one at 72nd, 92nd and 120th (a HUGE one). The one at 120th was the final nail in the coffin for the Kmart.

[BlasterBob]

Walmart in Hays, KS had a large sign on the gun counter cash register last Thursday 8/31, "We have NO .22's today".....

[ray1970]

If you drew a circle around my house on a map, maybe five or ten miles out, I think there would be five or six of them in that circle.

[kidicarus13]

Walmart in Hays, KS had a large sign on the gun counter cash register last Thursday 8/31, "We have NO .22's today".....

If local WM's had that sign posted on their front door I would have saved an extra 23 hours of my life by now.

[Rooskibar03]

Amazon Prime makes Walmart almost completely unnecessary in my life.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

They wouldn't do it if the demand and ability wasn't there. I hate the company personally but they do make $$$

It is actually probably this:

Sounds like what Starbuck's did and then ended up closing several.

The SBux strategy wasn't to make money on all those outlets, it was to prevent others from coming in. Squeeze the market out, so to speak.
In just that little Applewood area, there used to be 4, but I believe there are still 3 in the parking lot.

I'm assuming Walmart is keeping Target away. Slightly different demographic, but similar concept and similar Real Estate needs.

Amazon Prime makes Walmart almost completely unnecessary in my life.

And I could not agree more.

[cstone]

I live near the Wally's on 136th and I25. That store was originally slated to be built on the east side of the same interchange. I attended many of the Thornton City Council meetings to fight against having that store on the east side. One of the Wally executives admitted during one of the meetings that the Wally strategy was to have a store ever five miles up and down I25. When questioned, they admitted that the knew demand would not likely support each of those stores, however, once they owned the land and improved it with a building, they controlled that space. The insinuation was that if they control it, their competitors could not.

Part of Wally's winning strategy is to drive their competition into the dirt. It may not be pretty, but it is effective.

[Circuits]

Amen, Ain't that the truth!

Makes you wonder why they put so many check out lanes in the first place, even at Xmas I never see ALL of them open. For what I buy at Walmart at any given visit I just use the self check out lanes, like I do with King Soopers, hate standing in line.

There is a master approved floor plan for each type of all their stores, and all are built to that plan. Local business conditions vary, though, and staffing choices are up to each store's management in order to keep labor costs in line.