If you get groceries or pick up prescriptions from the Wal-Mart on Powder Springs Street in Marietta, bad news.
The neighborhood market is slated to close at 7 p.m. March 3, said Phillip Keene, Wal-Mart’s director of communications for the Southeast.
“The decision is not made lightly,” he said.
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The closing comes after what Keene called a standard review process that includes looking at the store’s financial performance and the company’s “strategic alignment for the long-term.”
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“We’re constantly reviewing … all these criteria internally,” Keene said, declining to explain the review process further.
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He said the company leases the property, 1167 Powder Springs St., and is still figuring out what to do with the building.
There are eight other stores within a few miles, Keene said, not only for customers but the stores 65 employees.
He said the company is going to try to move the workers to the other location.
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