The upcoming store closures come shortly after Walmart CEO Doug McMillon warned in December that retail theft is “higher than what it has historically been” and that if not corrected over time, “prices will be higher, and/or stores will close.”
“I think local law enforcement being staffed and being a good partner is part of that equation, and that’s normally how we approach it,” McMillon said in an interview on CNBC.
The CEO stopped short of stating exactly which locations could be shuttered due to rising theft incidents.
A Walmart store in Chicago, Ill., on Nov. 20, 2018. (Reuters/Kamil Krzaczynski
Retail giant Walmart is set to shutter multiple stores across three states after they failed to perform as well as expected, a company spokesperson has confirmed.
A Walmart in southeast Albuquerque, New Mexico, is closing down in March after underperforming, as is the South Halsted Street, Homewood store in Illinois.
One store located at West Silver Spring Drive in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is also shuttering next month, a Walmart spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement. Another is shuttering at Route 59, Plainfield, Illinois, in March.
The spokesperson said the decision was “not made lightly and was reached only after a thorough review process.”
Walmart has 5,000 stores across the United States.
The spokesperson added that some of the stores do not meet Walmart’s financial expectations and that while “our underlying business is strong,” the closing stores did not perform as well as the retailer had hoped.
“There is no single cause for why a store closes—our decision is based on several factors, including historical and current financial performance, and is in line with the threshold that guides our strategy to close underperforming locations,” the spokesperson said.
A third Walmart Pickup at McCormick Blvd. in Lincolnwood, Illinois, will close to the public by Feb. 17, according to Walmart.
“As this is a pickup and delivery-only location, we have taken what we learned from this location and made it part of how we operate pick-up and delivery from our surrounding stores, where we look forward to serving our customers,” the spokesperson said.
As a maturing Technocracy, China is steeped in genetic modification of everything that concerns the food supply. GMO milk at scale could negatively affect health of huge numbers of people. Technocrats invent because they are compelled, not because there is an informed demand to do so. ⁃ TN Editor
China claims to have cloned mutant “super cows” that can pump out nearly twice as much milk.
Beijing boffins boast they created three cows which can annually produce 18 tons of milk – which is 17,500 litres or 37,000 pints.
So the three “super cows” alone could produce 300 tons of milk a year.
And that yield of milk production is more than double the average cow in the UK, with is around 8,000 litres or 14,000 pints.
Chinese state media reports the breeding program the “stranglehold” of having to import cows from overseas.
The calves were cloned from cows at different farms that have high milk production.
And they also selected cows that have high fertility – with China dreaming of creating a herd of 1,000 of these “super cows”.
Jin Yaping, the scientist’s lead project, said the took tissues from the cows’ ears to “reincarnate” them.
They then transplanted the cloned embryos into 120 cows, according to Northwest A&F University.
Some 42 per cent were successfully impregnated and 17.5 per cent remained fertile for 200 days.
The three cloned cows births were announced this week.
Multiple online sources, many of them hen farmers, say that ever since Tractor Supply changed the Producer’s Pride formulation, their birds have gone desolate. This could be because of a reduction in the amount of protein contained in the feed, or it could be caused by other factors such as aflatoxin contamination.
Note: Mike Adams has committed to acquiring and testing Tractor Supply chicken feed products in his food science lab and sharing the results publicly, whatever they show. Tests to be conducted will include aflatoxins, heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, zinc, copper, strontium, etc.), glyphosate and a full slate of microbiology including e.coli, salmonella, yeast and mold.
It is wintertime, which means birds are exposed to less sunlight and thus naturally produce fewer eggs. However, farmers say the drop-off in egg production is so dramatic this year that many hens are producing no eggs at all, as opposed to just a reduction in eggs.
All of this is happening at a time when inflation is off the charts and eggs are in short supply supposedly due to “avian flu”. (Related: There probably isn’t a real avian flu crisis like the media and the Biden regime are claiming, though, since the U.S. government is using fraudulent PCR tests to diagnose hens before slaughtering them.)
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