- Relocated store located at 6400 Ridge Road, Suite 1
- Eldersburg Walmart creates approximately 150 new jobs
- Store open 6 a.m. to midnight
- Grand opening event Wednesday, Oct. 21, 7:30 a.m.
- Local Facebook page: www.facebook.com/walmart2436
SYKESVILLE, Md., Oct. 14, 2015 – The newly relocated Sykesville Walmart will open on Wednesday, October 21, bringing a broad assortment of fresh groceries and general merchandise at everyday low prices. Customers will also enjoy convenient on-site services such as a full pharmacy, fuel station and a free store pickup service providing an easy way to shop millions of products on Walmart.com, with many items available for pickup the same day. The new store will employ up to 400 full- and part-time associates.
“I’m excited to bring residents this newly relocated store, where they will enjoy the convenience and variety they have come to appreciate from the Sykesville Walmart, now with fresh produce and meat, and other new features,” Butcher said.
Fresh, Affordable Produce, Meat and Groceries
The Sykesville Supercenter is a full grocery store with fresh produce,
meat, pantry staples and more at Walmart’s everyday low prices. In addition to
organics and nutritious food choices, customers will also find a full-service
deli and in-store bakery offering custom cakes, including fresh bakes breads
and custom tortillas.
Full-Service
Pharmacy Offers Health and Wellness Services
The pharmacy offers a full range of products and services, including
prescription and over-the-counter medications, health monitors and more.
Pharmacists can administer most commonly requested immunizations, including flu
shots, and the pharmacy features a drive-through window for added convenience.
Sykesville residents can easily transfer prescriptions and order refills on the
go with the Walmart
mobile app. In addition, a full-service vision center offers
a wide variety of affordable, quality eyewear – including glasses and contacts
– optical products for all ages, and on-site eye exams.
Millions
of Items with Easy Digital and In-Store Shopping
The store is approximately 187,000 square feet and stocked with quality electronics,
furniture, automotive, sporting goods, home improvement, apparel, toys and more
from top brands at Walmart’s everyday low prices. Like all Walmart stores, the
Sykesville store will feature Walmart Pickup, free store pickup service offering free shipping from Walmart.com on
eligible items. Many items are available for pickup the same day.
The Walmart mobile app for iPhone and Android makes shopping easier than ever. Customers can refill prescription medications, create shopping lists, search the location of items in their store, check weekly ads and prices, save eReceipts and shop Walmart.com through the app.
Job Opportunities at Walmart
The store will employ up to 400 associates for full- and part-time
positions within the store. Applicants
interested in careers at Walmart can apply at a store’s hiring kiosk or online
at Walmartcareers.com. Butcher began her Walmart career in 1997 as a
temporary cashier at a store in Keyser, W.Va.
At Walmart, more than 75 percent of store management teams started as hourly associates. In 2014, 160,000 associates were promoted, and 40 percent of those promotions went to associates within the first year of their employment. Earlier this year Walmart announced it would be investing more than $1B in higher wages and training and other enhancements for its associates.
Community Giving
The
grand-opening celebration includes presentations of $10,000 in grants from
Walmart and the Walmart Foundation to local community groups including BARCS,
Carrolltown Elementary, Eldersburg Library, Emergency Management of Carroll
County, Liberty High School, Oaklahoma Middle School, Piney Run Park, The
Samaritan Women, St. Stephen’s Christian Academy, and Sykesville Freedom Fire
Department. The new store will also
continue a commitment by Walmart and the Walmart Foundation to fight hunger in
Sykesville and across the U.S. Walmart and the Walmart Foundation recently
exceeded a $2 billion goal to fight hunger one year ahead of schedule and have
donated more than 1.5 billion pounds of food to those in need across the
country.
Two
Celebration Events: Grand Opening and A Big Family Welcome
Local associates will provide a special welcome to members of Sykesville at two public events. Store
associates will host a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony on grand opening day, Oct.
21, at 7:30 a.m. The following Saturday, Oct. 24, local residents are invited
to A Big Family Welcome, which will give customers a chance to meet Butcher and
enjoy fun family activities and free food samples while supplies last. Join the
celebration from noon to 3 p.m.
About Walmart
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
(NYSE: WMT) helps people around the world save money and live better – anytime
and anywhere – in retail stores, online, and through their mobile devices. Each
week, we serve nearly 260 million customers who visit our 11,532 stores under
65 banners in 28 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. With fiscal
year 2015 revenue of $486 billion, Walmart employs more than 2 million
associates worldwide. Walmart continues to be a leader in sustainability,
corporate philanthropy and employment opportunity. Additional information about
Walmart can be found by visiting http://corporate.walmart.com on Facebook at http://facebook.com/walmart and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/walmart. Online merchandise sales are available at http://www.walmart.com and http://www.samsclub.com.
FACT SHEET
Sykesville Walmart
Store Facts
- Location: 6400 Ridge Road, Suite 1, Sykesville, Md.
- Size: Approximately 187,000 square feet
- Store manager: Natalie Butcher
- Hours: 6 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week
- Grand opening: Wednesday, Oct. 21, following a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony at 7:30 a.m.
Social
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/walmart2436
- #MyNewWalmart
Greater
Convenience and More Ways to Shop:
- Free store pickup program: Customers can shop millions of products on Walmart.com and have them shipped to the store for free
- Walmart Mobile App: Customer can refill prescription medications, create shopping lists, search the location of items within the store, check weekly ads and prices, save eReceipts and shop Walmart.com.
- Fuel station: Customers paying with Walmart gift card receive discount of 3 cents per gallon, etc.
- Financial services
- Bluebird: A product by American Express that provides an alternative to traditional checking and debit accounts
- Access to starter kits for Green Dot’s “GoBank” checking account services
- Money Transfers, Money Orders, and Express Bill Pay offered through MoneyGram
- Walmart Money Card offered through Green Dot
- Walmart2Walmart Money Transfers offered through RIA
- Bill Payment offered through CheckFreePay
- Gift Cards for use at any Walmart store or at Walmart.com.
- Trade-In programs:
- Smartphone: Customers trading in eligible smartphones can receive an immediate credit of $50 to $300 towards purchase of new smartphone
- Video games: Customers trading in eligible video games can receive an eGift Card for select video games and other electronics
For more
information
- Media contact: John Engleman, Mitchell Communications Group, 479-305-1665
- Walmart Media Relations, 800-331-0085
- Walmart information online: www.corporate.walmart.com; merchandise sales: www.walmart.com
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