South Bend closure is pretty interesting. It appears the next closest Wal Marts are going to be 15 minutes away. This feels like a hole. Like a sub-market exit of sorts. Meijer clearly creamed them good. Access keep in mind that part of the Interstate is a toll road so most locals likely try to avoid it and use surface streets.retailfanmitchell019 wrote: ↑March 21st, 2023, 2:56 pmBrooklyn Center is definitely one of the rougher areas around MSP. The Walmart that's closing competes with a Cub Foods. Up the street from the Cub, before you get to I-94 is Sun Foods, an ethnic market with Asian, Middle Eastern, and African foods. That store is a former Rainbow, I think it closed when Fleming sold Rainbow to Roundy's.arizonaguy wrote: ↑March 21st, 2023, 1:48 pm They seem to have announced a new wave of closings today.
Brooklyn Center, MN (1200 Shingle Creek Crossing)
This is an 11 year old store located on the site of a former mall (Brookdale Mall) and apparently the area is a high crime area. The Target in the area closed in 2019.
South Bend, IN (3701 Portage Rd)
This looks like a 1990s build supercenter that was recently renovated. There's a Meijer across the street. It doesn't really seem to be a shrink / theft / crime related issue. Google reviews seem to state that this store has been severely understaffed for a while. Judging by google maps this area just doesn't seem to be a high volume retail corridor and the Meijer probably performs better than the Walmart does.
The Brighton. MI store that closed in 2018 and the Plainfield, IL store (closed earlier this year) were also across the street from Meijer.
Cahokia Heights IL (1511 Camp Jackson Road)
This is a Division 1 store in a very economically depressed area. I'm sure theft / crime / shrink played a factor here.
South Bend looks to be a 2001 model Supercenter. I think lack of access is what did this store in (there are no exits off I-80/90 going directly to the store).
Brighton closed in 2016 during the big Walmart purge.
Brooklyn Center is absolutely a theft related closure. No question.
Carhokia Heights looks pretty old. Maybe it simply reached its "end of life" in Wal Mart terms. Store #747- so a pretty low number probably dating to the 80's. No self checkout. I see there is a Schnucks there near the Wal Mart- old Kroger greenhouse. May even still have the Kroger interior. Definitely has some Kroger department signs on the exterior. The surrounding neighborhood looks pretty desolate like it has been losing population for decades.