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Walmart temporarily shut nearly 60 U.S. stores for COVID cleaning in December -Breaking

by Mike Robinson

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO A Walmart sign can be seen in its West Haven department store, Connecticut (USA), February 17, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo

CHICAGO (Reuters: Walmart) (NYSE:) has temporarily closed almost 60 U.S. store in COVID-19 hotspots, December 2012 to sanitize against the virus. It is a sign of how the Omicron variant disrupts the retail market.

The Walmart stores – in locations including Texas and New Jersey – were closed for cleaning “to present a safe and clean in-store environment for our associates and customers,” a company spokesperson told Reuters in a statement. Walmart operates more than 4700 U.S. stores.

It adopted a policy two years ago at the start of the coronavirus pandemic of closing stores for fewer than two days to “get ahead” of potential outbreaks.

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