Sam's Club to shutter Nashville store

Sam's Club will close its west Nashville store in January as part of the retailer's wave of abrupt national closures that started this week.

A phone answering service for the location at 615 Old Hickory Blvd said the store is closed today, Jan. 11, but will reopen Friday, Jan. 12. An employee confirmed by phone the store will then close permanently on Jan. 26.

Metro Councilwoman Sheri Weiner posted on Twitter she will share a press release from the company regarding the closure.

It's unclear how many employees will be affected by the closure.

The Bellevue closure is one of 63 nationwide for the membership warehouse owned by Walmart. About 50 will be going out of business for good, and about 10 to 12 stores are slated to be closed temporarily as the retailer converts them to regional distributional centers.

The closures came the same day that Walmart said it would lift the hourly minimum wage in the U.S. to $11 and give out bonuses of up to $1,000.

USA Today contributed to this report.

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