Walmart announced Thursday that the Walmart Neighborhood Market grocery store in East Cobb (3101 Roswell Road) will be closing on July 12.
In a release, Walmart said that the decision to close the store was made after “a careful and thoughtful review process” and that “this store hasn’t performed as well as we hoped.”
A Walmart Supercenter retail store is closing in Dunwoody the same day.
Company spokeswoman Alicia Anger said the East Cobb store’s pharmacy also is closing on July 12, and that “our pharmacy staff will work with customers to transfer prescriptions to another convenient Walmart location.”
Anger said that “this decision was based on a range of issues concerning financial performance. There is no single cause for why a store closes and these are never easy decisions. . . While our underlying business is strong, this specific store hasn’t performed as well as we hoped.”
She said the store’s 92 employees are eligible to transfer to other Walmart stores, including six in and around Marietta.
The East Cobb store, which opened in 2014, has been the anchor tenant at the Olde Mill Shopping Center (Roswell at Olde Canton Road), and has been the only Walmart Neighborhood Market in the area in recent years.
The company also had stores on Canton Road and at Sandy Plains Road that have closed in recent years. The East Cobb store is surrounded by multiple Publix locations, as well as Kroger, Whole Foods, Aldi and Lidl.
Walmart also has a grocery section in its retail store on Johnson Ferry Road.
Kroger opened its first Atlanta-area “super store” on Powers Ferry Road last summer.
There are more than 5,000 Walmart Neighborhood Market locations across the country, and the company has been expanding with larger stores that opened recently in Florida and in Vine City in Atlanta. The stores feature expanded produce sections, as well as meat, deli and bakery options.
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