Walmart closing Neighborhood Market store on San Antonio’s Northeast Side

Walmart Stores Inc. closed its Neighborhood Market store on Nacogdoches Road near MacArthur High School in 2017. The gas station has since been removed. The location will become North East ISD’s high school cybersecurity magnet program next year. less Walmart Stores Inc. closed its Neighborhood Market store on Nacogdoches Road near MacArthur High School in 2017. The gas station has since been removed. The location will become North East ISD’s high school ... more Photo: Joshua Fechter / Photo: Joshua Fechter / Image 1 of / 36 Caption Close Walmart closing Neighborhood Market store on San Antonio’s Northeast Side 1 / 36 Back to Gallery

Walmart Stores Inc. is closing a Neighborhood Market store near MacArthur High School on the city’s Northeast Side, the company said Friday.

The store at 3175 Nacogdoches Road — one of the retail giant’s smaller format stores that focuses on grocery and pharmacy along with a smaller selection of general merchandise — will close on Dec. 4, company spokeswoman Anne Hatfield said Friday.

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Hatfield cited lower-than-expected sales, an oversaturation of existing stores and investment in remodeling and technological initiatives like expanding the company’s curbside grocery pickup program at existing stores as reasons for the Nacogdoches store’s closure. Walmart has remodeled four stores in the San Antonio area this year, Hatfield said.

The store’s 67 employees received layoff notices Nov. 3, according to the Texas Workforce Commission. Hatfield said Walmart is offering positions to those employees at other stores in the area.

“The area store managers are very eager to have those associates join their team,” Hatfield said. “And we have plenty of opportunity for everyone at the Nacogdoches store to transfer to one of these nearby stores.”

The Nacogdoches store opened in 2015, according to Express-News archives. Walmart currently has 49 stores — including 10 Neighborhood Market stores — in the San Antonio area, according to its website.

Walmart isn’t the only big box retailer to announce closures in the San Antonio area. Target announced Wednesday it plans to close its store at 7014 FM 78 on the city’s Far East Side in February among a dozen U.S. stores.

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