“The associates of that store have a very strong connection to that store,” he said. “They have repeatedly told us that they want to go back to work there.”

Mr. Hargrove said that 93 percent of the store’s 400 employees had been placed at other Walmart stores in the area. Grief counselors are available through an employee wellness program, he said, adding, “We’ll continue to provide them what they need.”

Laura C. Wilson, the editor of “The Wiley Handbook of the Psychology of Mass Shootings” and an associate professor of psychology at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia, said it was fairly common for survivors to want to demolish a building or space where gun violence took place.

“One of the hallmark characteristics of PTSD is an avoidance of reminders of the trauma, and the location of the shooting is certainly a reminder,” Professor Wilson said in an email on Thursday. “With that in mind, it is not surprising that many communities decide to get rid of or significantly redesign locations where mass shootings occurred.”

“For the larger community, there is often a sense of wanting to reclaim that space and make that space feel like theirs again,” she added. “Repurposing that space can help achieve that goal.”

Communities have taken different approaches to mass shooting sites.

In Newtown, Conn., for example, the elementary school where 20 first graders and six educators were killed in a 2012 mass shooting was razed and a new school was built on a different part of the property.

In Virginia Beach, officials still have not decided the fate of a municipal building where a city engineer who had quit his job killed 12 people in May. The city conducted a survey of residents and city employees on what to do with the building, with the largest percentage of respondents favoring demolition, The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Va., reported.