HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) - Residents now have a brand new place to shop in Huntsville. Walmart employees and city leaders held a grand opening celebration at 7:30 a.m. for the new store on South Memorial Parkway.
A company-issued news release states the new location created 85 jobs, full-time and part-time. That puts the total number of employees at the new Walmart location to 300.
The new location, at 3031 Memorial Parkway Southwest, is actually the relocation of another store at 2900 South Memorial Parkway.
The celebration is expected to include the presentations of $7,000 in grants from Walmart to local community groups.
And officials will explain the company's pledge to fight hunger in America.
Walmart officials say stores in Alabama donated more than 11 million pounds of food in 2013, which is the equivalent of 9.2 million meals.
Officials say Walmart and the Walmart Foundation gave more than $21.8 million in fiscal year 2013 in Alabama alone.
There are still more celebrations planned once the store is open.
The store will be the site of a family welcome celebration on Saturday, October 18 with family activities and free food samples from noon to 3:00 p.m.
Shoppers can meet the store manager, who started out as an hourly stock worker in 1995 and moved up the company.
The store will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Tommythunderball
Hard to believe our city and county officials celebrated a company, known for its low wage and part-time jobs with no benefits, that burdens Huntsville’s social services organizations at taxpayers expense. Wal-Mart is the “welfare queen” of American businesses.
Branko Pezdi
Do you lie all of the time or just some of the time? How about you provide sources for your abject lies.
Tommythunderball
Branko Pezdi, Bloomberg Business News has all the facts you need. “How McDonald’s and Wal-Mart Became Welfare Queens”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-13/how-mcdonald-s-and-wal-mart-became-welfare-queens.html
Courtney
Don’t shop there or support it if at all possible.
Branko Pezdi
So apparently you’re one of the unwashed OWS parasites too.
Dan
Do you have a life or is this all it consists of ? Trolling and telling people how wrong they are when you do not even have the slightest clue what you are even talking about! I would hate to know that I was that miserable. Bless your little heart ! I’m sure you could pick you up a new life from the clearance rack at the new Wal Mart.