Walmart has decided that it likes convenience stores and will be opening more of them in Dallas-Fort Worth.

Plano gets the next one. A 2,900-square-foot convenience store with eight fuel pumps opened at 6000 Coit Road in Plano on Wednesday.

Three more convenience stores are planned for Arlington, Lake Worth and The Colony later this year, said Anne Hatfield, Walmart spokeswoman in Texas.

Last year, Walmart opened a convenience store south of Fort Worth, in Crowley with all the traditional trappings, an Icee machine, rolling hotdogs and a walk-in refrigerator packed with beer. One other opened in Rogers, Ark., near Walmart's headquarters in Bentonville. While another one is planned for Avon, Ohio, the convenience stores are still in test mode, she said.

The stores are in Walmart Supercenter parking lots that didn't already have gasoline pumps. No freestanding locations are planned for now, Hatfield said. Each store has eight fuel pumps and will be open from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m.

1 / 4A Walmart convenience store in Crowley features a Flavor Blend ice cream machine and ICEE machines.(File Photo / Ashley Landis ) 2 / 4Coffee machines are lined up inside a new Walmart convenience store on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 on FM 1187 in Crowley, Texas. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)(Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer) 3 / 4A walk-in beer cooler inside a new Walmart convenience store on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 on FM 1187 in Crowley, Texas. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)(Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer) 4 / 4Pizza and hot dogs cook in the hot foods section of a new Walmart convenience store on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 on FM 1187 in Crowley, Texas. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)(Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)

The stores are part of Walmart's strategy to find ways to be more convenient, Hatfield said. "It's another piece of our efforts with online deliveries and curbside; pickup towers. It's all about choices."

Walmart tests and rolls out many of its new plans in Dallas-Fort Worth, she said. "It's an important market, and we like the feedback from Dallas."

Offering gasoline in the parking lot isn't new for Walmart. Murphy USA runs about 1,000 gas stations for Walmart and some of those had small convenience stores. But in 2016, Walmart told Murphy it would start building and operating its own gas stations. Walmart's convenience stores are about twice the size of Murphy's.

Hot corner

There's also a Murphy Express convenience store and a 7-Eleven at the same intersection of Coit and West Spring Creek Parkway. Murphy Express just opened in May at 6100 Coit Road.

The Walmart convenience store in Plano is also promoting its opening this week with free samples of various foods through Saturday, Hatfield said.

These Walmart Supercenters are next to get convenience stores, Walmart said. (No opening dates were given.)

4801 S Cooper St, Arlington, TX 76017

6360 Lake Worth Blvd, Lake Worth, TX 76135

4691 TX-121, The Colony, TX 75056

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