Winter time temporarily closes Walmart stores in these states
The 50 states have a Walmart, but the shops right now are closed in half of them.
With frigid temperatures, the winter weather hascovered a large part of the country with soft snow or a fresh ice sheet. As a result, millions of houses have been left without power and hundreds ofWalmart andSAM club The stores on 25 states were also forced to close.
Walmart has published an interactive map to help customers navigate closures.More ... than300 stores that were closed to Monday, February 16, sold a large part of the Midwest and the southeast. A majority were located in the states of Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. You can see the full maphere. (In touch:More Saddes restaurant closures in your state.)
"The safety of our employees and our customers is our absolute priority. Walmart's emergency operations center monitors winter storms and other potential catastrophes in real time," says the giant of retail in aposter on his website. "We evaluate the status of our facilities and will continue to operate as long as it is careful to do so. We pay special attention and follow local and / or state guidelines."
The conditions were supposed to drag, even if the storm system goes north-east, bringing ice conditions in New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont. A new storm growing in the Midwest has also been put in place to bring more ice to Texas and more snow to other American states.
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