According to Fresh & Easy Buzz, Walmart will close its four small-format "Marketside by Walmart" fresh food and grocery markets in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona on October 21.Fresh & Easy Buzz reports that Walmart representatives met with the employees of the four stores, located in the Phoenix metro-region cities of Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler and Tempe informing the workers that the four stores opened on October 4, 2008 will be closed October 21, and that "Marketside by Walmart" will cease to exist as a format for the retailer.
Walmart currently has no plans to open stores in the soon to be vacant "marketside by Walmart" locations under either its Walmart Market/Walmart Neighborhood Market smaller-to-medium format chain or its new Walmart Express small-format, according to Fresh & Easy Buzz sources.
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