- New Walmart Neighborhood Market located at 3650 Walton Drive
- Myrtle Beach Walmart creates about 95 new jobs
- Store open 24 hours a day, seven days a week
- Grand opening event Friday May 27, 7:30 a.m.
- Local Facebook page: www.facebook.com/walmart5923
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C., May 20, 2016 – The new Walmart Neighborhood Market in
Myrtle Beach will open to the community Friday, May 27, bringing a broad
assortment of fresh, affordable groceries at Walmart’s everyday low prices.
Customers will also enjoy the convenience of on-site services such as a full
pharmacy and fuel station, and a free store pickup service providing an easy
way to shop millions of products on Walmart.com. The new store will employ up to 95 full- and part-time
associates.
“We are proud to be a part of the Myrtle Beach community,” said store
manager Jackie Thompson. “We look forward to opening for the area’s busy
Memorial Day weekend and providing both our neighbors and visitors with
Walmart’s everyday low prices.”
Fresh, Affordable Produce, Meat and Groceries
The store offers fresh produce and meat, pantry staples and a full line
of groceries from leading brands.
In addition to organics and nutritious food choices, customers will also
find a full-service deli and in-store bakery offering custom cakes and fresh
baked breads.
Full
Service Pharmacy
The Neighborhood Market includes a pharmacy with a full range of
products, immunizations and services and Walmart pharmacists ready to assist customers
with product and prescription questions. Myrtle Beach residents can easily
transfer prescriptions and order refills on the go with the Walmart mobile app.
A drive thru pharmacy window makes prescription drop off and pick up quick and
easy.
Millions
of Items with Seamless Digital and In-Store Shopping
The store is approximately 46,000 square feet and offers a wide assortment
of products to meet the needs of Myrtle Beach residents. Customers will find health
and beauty aids, pet products and cleaning supplies. Shopping is more
convenient than ever as Myrtle Beach residents can shop seven million items on
Walmart.com, many of which can be shipped for free to any Walmart store through
Walmart Pickup.
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 95
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. Store manager Jackie Thompson began his
Walmart career in 1986 as an hourly associate at a store in Sumter.
Starting in 2015, Walmart began
making a $2.7 billion investment over a two year period in higher wages, more
scheduling choices and further training for its associates. As part of
increased wages across the company, the average full time hourly associate now
makes $13.53 an hour in South Carolina. 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. The new investment is designed to help make
Walmart not only a better place to shop but a better place to work.
Community Giving
The
grand-opening celebration includes presentation of $8,000 in grants from the
Walmart Foundation to local community groups including Grand Strand Miracle
League, Red Cross, Help 4 Kids (Backpack Buddies), Combat Veterans Motorcycle
Association, and St. James High School Band Boosters. The new store will also continue a commitment
by Walmart and the Walmart Foundation to fight hunger in Myrtle Beach 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 the Myrtle
Beach community at two public events. Store associates will host a brief
ribbon-cutting ceremony on grand opening day, May 27, at 7:30 a.m. The
following Saturday, May 28, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Sunday, May 29, from 12
p.m. to 4 p.m., local residents are invited to A Big Family Welcome
celebration. This will give customers a chance to meet Thompson and enjoy fun
family activities and free food samples while supplies last.
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, nearly 260 million
customers and members visit our 11,535 stores under 72 banners in 28 countries
and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. With fiscal
year 2016 revenue of $482.1 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
Myrtle Beach Walmart Neighborhood
Market
Store Facts
- Location: 3650 Walton Drive, Myrtle Beach,
S.C.
- Size: Approximately 46,000 square feet
- Store manager: Jackie Thompson
- Hours:
24 hours a day, seven days a week
- Grand
opening: Friday, May 27, following a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony at 7:30
a.m.
Social
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/walmart5923
- #MyNewWalmart
Greater
Convenience and More Ways to Shop:
- Free store pickup program: Customers can shop millions of items on Walmart.com with free shipping to the local store. Many items are available for pickup the same day.
- 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 stations: 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
- Bill Payment offered
through CheckFreePay
- Walmart2Walmart Money
Transfers offered through RIA
- Gift Cards for use at any
Walmart store or at Walmart.com.
For more
information
- Media
contact: Samantha Herrera, Mitchell, 479-616-0561
- Walmart
Media Relations, 800-331-0085
- Walmart
information online: www.corporate.walmart.com;
merchandise sales: www.walmart.com
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