New Walmart Neighborhood Market Opens In Pensacola; Atmore Walmart Open Soon

July 16, 2014

A new Walmart Neighborhood Market opened in Pensacola Wednesday, and a new Walmart in Atmore is still on track to open early next month.

The new Walmart Neighborhood Market is located at the corner of Pine Forest Road and Mobile Highway and will be open from 6 a.m. until midnight every day. Walmart Neighborhood Market stores are smaller than a traditional Walmart store and offer products mostly in line with the average grocery store. The store will employee about 95 people.

August 6 is the grand opening date for the new Walmart in Atmore.  The 70,000 square foot store at 911 North Main Street will include a full line of groceries and a wide assortment of merchandise….almost everything in a Walmart Supercenter except for an auto care center or fine jewelry department. The smaller prototype store will be open 24 hours a day. The store will employee nearly 150 people.

Pictured top: The new Atmore Walmart. NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.

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10 Responses to “New Walmart Neighborhood Market Opens In Pensacola; Atmore Walmart Open Soon”

  1. Abc on August 5th, 2014 9:54 pm

    I love these anti-Walmart script writers. Hello? These aren’t career jobs. This is where you start. To some, EVERY single job has to support THEIR lifestyle. I can’t stand these selfish BRATS who think they should be paid according to their NEEDS as opposed to what they actually offer an employer. Work for Walmart, show up on time, get some experience and move up the ladder. If your top rung is a cashier at Walmart, you’ve let yourself down a long time ago: go look in a mirror, yeah, blame THAT one.

  2. dgh on July 19th, 2014 9:55 pm

    The thing some miss on Walmart is how they drive out of business local shops, and in the process cut business to those service industries supported by the local retailers. You’ll also see banks hurt by Walmart only needing a place to wire money back to corporate. It isn’t jealously to criticize the way Walmart does hurt small towns in the long run. The jobs lost are higher paying than those at Walmart, so education or no education, anyone in the region who has their business hurt to the point they can’t continue faces either a job whose pay is too low to support them or moving away to someplace where they may find better pay. Unfortunately this country has been slowly hurting the middle class for years and this is just another aspect of a bigger problem. Most of Walmart’s employees who are trying to survive have to have government assistance, in other words, taxpayers make up the difference for the low pay and the dominance of the job markets by the mega-retailer.

  3. BPD on July 18th, 2014 3:41 pm

    There is a lot of people out there, who either didn’t have the will or the motivation to capitalize on the educational opportunities of their youth, and a low wage job such as Wal-Mart is all they are qualified to do. If Wal-Mart does not pay enough to support your lifestyle, don’t apply to work there. My dad always told me that to make a living you have to work your brain or your back. Working your brain is much easier to sustain as you age and it pays much better as well.

  4. A. on July 16th, 2014 8:32 pm

    WalMart has mastered the science of retailing and marketing but all we can do is hate them and complain while still driving 30-45 minutes to shop there. Everybody hates Lawyers too…. until they need one. Let’s just embrace progress and try to be happy about it. Time moves forward in spite of our best efforts to fight it.

  5. David on July 16th, 2014 6:34 pm

    A low wage job is better than no job. They just brought almost 100 jobs to the area and you’re going to bitch? If you don’t like them, don’t shop there. Please stop wasting our time spreading more hate and discontent, there’s enough of that in the world already.

  6. Anne on July 16th, 2014 6:33 pm

    When I transferred to Pensacola years ago the employees resented me for taking a position away from a local. They didn’t know I refused to transfer unless I received the same pay as I had in another state. I learned then that Pensacola employees are just happy to have any job. Walmart fills the bill and everyone is happy to have another place to shop. Shopping and tv, that’s what we do.

  7. mick on July 16th, 2014 6:32 pm

    Every atmorian will be shopping there and the clothes dept will make everyone look like they came off the same rack…

  8. Almay on July 16th, 2014 6:23 pm

    Lazy people always say that.

  9. pro Jobs on July 16th, 2014 4:28 pm

    Anyone who is willing to get off the couch and get a job is a hero today. It is so easy to to stay home and collect a xheck, ebt card and cell phone. But way to go making those people feel good.

  10. Don on July 16th, 2014 2:28 pm

    A lot of low wage job’s that will provide just enough hours/pay to allow government assistance….

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