These Are All the Walmart Locations Closing in 2024

Over the past few years, retail giant Walmart has been actively closing locations that it deemed "underperforming." In 2022, the big-box retailer shuttered a handful of stores nationwide, but in 2023, closures were more widespread, with Walmart shuttering almost two dozen locations. For a while it felt like closures were slowing down, but they seem to be picking up again this year. Read on for a full list of the Walmart locations closing for good in 2024.

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One of the first Walmart's to go in 2024 was the Walmart Neighborhood Market at 2121 Imperial Ave. in San Diego, which officially said goodbye on Feb. 9, Best Life previously reported.

The store, which was located in the Logan Heights neighborhood of San Diego, was a big loss for shoppers, who said they were worried about where they would go after the store was gone.

"I think it's great for me, plus the neighborhood. It's real convenient for me," South Park resident Shane Evans told NBC 7 San Diego before the Walmart closed. "The reason I came out yesterday, I get my ribeye steaks here. I go in there and there's nothing."

Evans also pointed out that Albertsons is the nearest grocery store, but "the prices there are a little outrageous."

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Another Walmart in the San Diego area closed to the public on Feb. 9, this one in El Cajon at 605 Fletcher Pkwy. As with the Logan Heights store, customers were surprised and upset to hear the busy store was on the chopping block, while others said they were concerned about the loss of Walmart creating a food desert.

"I hate the fact that they're closing," Art Floto, a regular shopper at the location, told CBS 8 before it closed. "When I heard that, my stomach kind of turned over."

In a statement previously provided to Best Life, the company explained that it decided not to renew its leases at the San Diego-area stores. Walmart said it makes decisions to close stores using several different factors—and as with other shuttered Walmart locations, these stores haven't met performance expectations. This was compounded by the fact that Walmart couldn't meet mutual lease agreements with property managers at each location.

"We are grateful to the customers who have given us the privilege of serving them at our San Diego and El Cajon stores," Walmart spokesperson Brian Little said in a statement. "We look forward to continuing to serve them at any of our many locations across the area, on walmart.com and through delivery to their home or business."

Associates at the closing stores were allowed to transfer to a nearby location, the company said. Walmart also noted that there are still over a dozen stores and warehouse clubs in the San Diego area.

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A Walmart location was recently shuttered in the Midwest, as it didn't meet financial expectations, CBS-affiliate 10 WBNS reported. The store, located at 3579 S. High St. in Columbus, Ohio, closed for good on Feb. 16, Little confirmed in a statement to Best Life. The store's pharmacy, however, remained open for a little while longer, closing officially on March 4.

As in California, the 180 employees at the Columbus Walmart are eligible for transfer and are being paid through May 3. Eligible employees who don't want to transfer by that date will be paid a severance.

"We are grateful to the customers who have given us the privilege of serving them at our store on High Street in Columbus," Little said in the statement. "We look forward to continuing to serve them at any of our many locations across the area, on walmart.com and through delivery to their home or business."

Currently, there are no additional Walmart closures planned for this region.

Another California Walmart closure was announced in February, too—this time in West Covina, the Los Angeles-based news station KTLA reported. This store, which was located at 2753 E. Eastland Center Drive, closed on March 29.

A Walmart spokesperson told the news outlet that the company went through a "thoughtful review process" before deciding to close the West Covina Walmart.

"We have nearly 5,000 stores across the U.S. and unfortunately some do not meet our financial expectations," they said. "While our underlying business is strong, this store hasn't performed as well as we hoped."

Walmart also confirmed that there were no additional SoCal closures planned for the immediate future, and all 237 employees from the West Covina store would be eligible to transfer to another nearby location.

"We are grateful to the customers who have given us the privilege of serving them at our store in West Covina," Walmart Communications Director Alicia Anger said in a statement provided to KTLA. "We look forward to continuing to serve them at any of 16 other locations across the area, on walmart.com and through delivery."

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But that's not all. California has now lost four Walmart stores so far in 2024. In a statement to Best Life, the company confirmed that a Walmart Neighborhood Market in the Sacramento suburb of Granite Bay would be closing earlier this month.

The Granite Bay store, located at 4080 Douglas Blvd., shuttered for good on April 12 because it hadn't met financial expectations, according to Anger.

Echoing previous statements about other closing stores, Anger thanked the customers who shopped at the Granite Bay location, adding that the retailer looks forward "to continuing to serve them at any of seven other locations across the area, on walmart.com and through delivery to their home or business."

A different Walmart store back on the East Coast also closed earlier this month. Located at 1238 Putty Hill Ave. in Towson, Maryland, this location shut down on April 5, The Daily Record reported.

Like many of the other Walmarts that have closed, the Towson Walmart was underperforming, according to the news outlet. As in California, employees will be paid through June 14 and given the option to transfer to another Walmart location or receive a severance.

Anger provided a similar statement to The Daily Record, expressing gratitude for customers "who have given us the privilege of serving them at our store in Towson."

Walmart also said it has no additional closures planned for this region.

A seventh closure for the mega-company was just announced. Walmart sent a letter to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development on April 19 notifying officials of plans to close a location in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, next month.

Located at 7025 W. Main Street, "the store will close to the public on May 17," the letter stated.

Like the others, this Walmart Neighborhood Market in Milwaukee isn't performing as well as the company had hoped, Kelsey Bohl, director of corporate communications for Walmart media relations, told local ABC-affiliate WISN-TV.

"We are grateful to the customers who have given us the privilege of serving them," Bohl reiterated.

Best Life reached out to Walmart to find out if there are any more closures in the works, and we will update this story with its response.

While isolated closures are certainly frustrating for local shoppers, Walmart is actually upping its store footprint on the whole.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb

As part of ongoing expansion efforts, the big-box retailer is planning to build or convert more than 150 stores over the next five years, Best Life previously reported. The first two new stores under this initiative are Neighborhood Markets set to open later this spring in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, and Atlanta, according to a Jan. 31 press release.

"We're also finalizing construction plans on 12 new projects we intend to start this year, along with converting one of our smaller locations to a Walmart Supercenter," Walmart CEO John Furner wrote in the release.

According to Business Insider, there are two confirmed openings thus far: a Neighborhood Market on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Atlanta; and a Neighborhood Market on U.S. Highway 98 East in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.

This story has been updated to include additional entries, fact-checking, and copy-editing.