This Vacant Walmart Awaits Repurposing - Richardson, TX

[@Aurora666_yt]

It's not the first time the Richardson location closed. This location closed down circa 2008 while under the "WAL★MART" branding and remained closed for a few years before reopening as a renovated supercenter. I still remember what it looked like inside before the extensive remodel.

[@MrTgd81]

Did it have a dropped ceiling in 2008 and and earlier @Lexi2019AURORA

[@Aurora666_yt]

@@MrTgd81 I believe it did! It looked different than all the other locations.

[@MrTgd81]

@@Aurora666_yt so do u have a new update from it i would like to know if the fulfillment center is open yet

[@rowdyjman94]

It was also a discount store according to old rand mcnally atlases (walmart editions) with the walmart directories before the supercenter upgrade

[@johnb.1750]

Finally no comments saying "First! First! First!"

[@AaronHancock-kh7xx]

First!

[@MrTodh]

Thank-You, Wallie and Kayla... Stay Safe !

[@Railfan77]

And funny at 07:54 that shopping cart was also a brand new one too, so it lived a short life, lol

[@robl6347]

Awesome video, we have three Wal-Mart stores closed around here. A supercenter in the small town of Winnsboro, SC that's been sitting empty for about 5 years now. A second Supercenter in Columbia on Bush River Road that's been empty about 9 months and a Neighborhood Market about 2 miles from the Bush River Road store empty for at least 3 years now. They were all in Neighborhoods where they had shrink and high shoplifting. I new a manager at the Neighborhood market that told me they had 150K In shrink the last year they were open. It's awesome to see this one getting repurposed by Wal-Mart and people's jobs still secure at some point

[@DalmationProductions]

Good video WallieB26 😃😁

[@news89]

One rare site to see a closed Wallsmart. When you hear one is closing it is like wow. The only time I can remember when a Wal-Mart closed that really hurt the community was in Kimball, WV near Welch.

[@cubie526]

It’s not very often you see a newer style Walmart that is closed, usually if you see a closed one it’s a 90s or 2000s style Walmart.

[@garymiller1977]

This is what Walmart is wanting for most of its stores in the next several years. They want to focus on the online part of the business since retail has changed so much in the past year. All part of trying to complete with Amazon.

[@almaolivares5182]

So this is the Walmart in Richardson /Dallas Texas

[@brucesumter4327]

i forgot tell kay happy bday to her ty for showing this video too

[@Broncos2005]

That's weird a newer style Walmart closed. Wonder why they closed this one

[@realluser-smore-2519]

I've seen the same Walmart style except it's a brown tan dark brown color theme until it got remodeled

[@CoolCatProductions-365]

It’s probably under performing, that would be my guess

[@MrTgd81]

This store originally opened in 1995 as a regular Walmart with the 90's Walmart design with a dropped ceiling and everything then later closed in 2008 to be remodeled to this style Walmart then reopened in 2011 or 2012 then closed in 2021 again to be changed to a fulfillment center but it currently still sits abandoned with all white paint on the building almost no signs left of Walmart existence but the inside of the store when it got remodeled took out the dropped ceiling and put in skylights like your normal Walmart stores anymore

[@leslieschoenberg]

Their is a closed old Walmart in Marlow Texas on us 81 painted brown with cars in the parking lot during the week and a sign that says No trespassing

[@leslieschoenberg]

That should be Marlow Oklahoma Not Texas

[@leslieschoenberg]

That should be Marlow Oklahoma Not Texas

[@crystalscan2002]

wow that new style walmart also

[@GLeibniz1716]

For 96 degrees you are still a cool dude wallie, be safe!

[@heatherpayne8576]

It's odd that it doesn't have another entrance on the left side. Most of the newer stores have 2.

[@edwardsr70]

For as large as this store is you would think it would have 2 entrances.

[@adamn.4615]

Is that the one on 75? I've been to that one a few times...I didn't even realize it was being converted!

[@carlavision6143]

Wallie, really enjoyed your video! Love Kayla's blue hair!

[@MrIceman22]

wow thanks for sharing this wallie you for sure dont see a closed up walmart wow..

[@JorgeBonilla-z4e]

The gate thing on the side had shopping carts

[@mikemahon4594]

The sam's club closest to me got turned into a t-mobile office, most from one side of the county to the next.

[@jennifergarrett6809]

Kayla there are other things in the old Wal-Mart building. Tractor supply and whatever that other place is. There use to be a nice furniture store there also. But Tractor supply has been in there since shortly after Wal-Mart left.

[@VintageCars999]

Never seen a Walmart with those security gates but this one appears slightly different, more than likely one of their newer stores. I did notice in basically every parking space there was an oil stain like I wonder if people went to the same shop and they didnt replace their drain plug or didnt have their filter on tight enough. Usually it's one, maybe two parking spots with oil stains. I've also seen an all plastic Target shopping cart knock out a headlight before. Those things move fast if the wind gets to it.

[@KELLIE115]

The old Benbrook Texas Wal-Mart closed down and turned into an Antique Mall. And they built another one down the street.

[@gradymcclintock3766]

To bad you couldn't get in there

[@MultipleObjectSelector]

I remember driving past this place constantly before I moved away from Texas. Next door to the Microcenter. Manager at the Microcenter is a real bastard.

[@trippyracks6837]

Caged in area is typically used for storing pallets until they have a large enough amount to fill up a trailer to send back to a DC.

[@alanlough638]

I enjoyed this video, Wallie and Kayla! At least the employees are able to keep their jobs. Have a Texaslicious Day!

[@markbaxter5027]

Wallie when is there going to be a video of Moondog's in Pittsburgh?

[@Tahoe832]

Carrollton, TX had a small WM that closed down. Then a supercenter was built across the highway.

[@Aurora666_yt]

Is it the one on Trinity Mills and Old Denton?

[@Aurora666_yt]

The one on Midway and LBJ, my bad?

[@Aurora666_yt]

I see now which one you're talking about. Me and my dad drove past the old building that says "WMS" and looks like an old Wal-Mart.

[@jbb3design]

New discount city Walmart because this location one main entrance. Smaller supercenter still have two main entrances.

[@retailexplorationwithdanny8070]

2008 and 2007 shows this Walmart when it had the 1980s style

[@christopherbrown1183]

Great day bro

[@royvos8204]

Was the Murphy’s gas station also closed? I saw some cars at the pumps in the end of the video

[@RealKansasMan]

It's crazy to see a Walmart that massive and new shut down and vacated.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

Online sales v. Brick and Mortar stores Supply chain issues. Shoplifting on a massive scale by both employees and (potential) customers.

[@h.mandelene3279]

it isn't a very big store. Notice it only has 1 entrance and it doesn't have the garden center section.

[@matthewfarmer6830]

Like they alway say it's always bigger out here in Texas lol I'm from Louisville Kentucky. I was watching your video now that's the biggest super Walmart I've ever seen, ours are big but this one is HUGE. Thanks for sharing.

[@davidrish3605]

Hey waillie watching your video on the closed Walmart like you said it’s rare to see a closed Walmart do you know what’s taking its place in the store

[@nicolemacpherson3908]

Hope you guys are keeping safe from the flooding.

[@WallieB26]

We were okay. Thankfully. We were spared from any flooding this time. Thank you.

[@zoefaith120]

Kayla made the video!!!!!!!!!

[@theunowhoknocks]

There is a closed Walmart here off of US-90, and there is also an abandoned KFC in front of it. There is another Walmart in the area, so this possibly may be the explanation for it.

[@KaR1942]

Good work 👍👍👍 keep informing us

[@danestegman155]

Good video! Quite a find! It at least going to be used for something, instead of just abandoned it, like Walmart does do and then build a Super Walmart across the road!

[@jighflaukst]

I always drive past this after visiting the microcenter up the street. It's weird to see such a new store be repurposed.

[@jet34thehawk]

Cool 😎 video

[@Aurora666_yt]

Other defunct locations: Farmers Branch TX (Off 635/LBJ and Midway [not Midpark]) This Wal-Mart store was the only one in town to feature the red lettering on the façade. All others (even at the time) had white lettering (green lettering for the neighborhood markets). It supposedly opened around 1992 (not sure, I wasn't born in the 90s). I remember that place very fondly. It closed down in the summer of 2015, upon the construction of the Walmart-Sam's super complex on the other side of the Lyndon B Johnson freeway (which also relocated the Sam's club in Addison TX). Now the former Wal-Mart building is an "AtHome" store, which opened in 2016.

[@VacDrumLover9646]

I've been to the old Midway Walmart about 2 times. One time in 2009 and 2014. When I first went inside that location, I was amazed at how big it looked. Reminds me of a supercenter. It used to have a McDonald's. Then when I went there the 2nd time 5 years later, the McDonald's was gone and I wanted to get a $1 drink. I really like the old Walmarts. They're quite original and part of history too.

[@Aurora666_yt]

​@@VacDrumLover9646 That was my parents regular store in my childhood. By chance did you see the rug hanging in the back corner above the fabric and floral section?

[@rowdyjman94]

More former walmarts: a discount store in white settlement on cherry lane, a hypermart in garland downgrading to a supercenter a few miles southeast in dallas city limits closer to 635, a supercenter near 67 & 20 (was dallas 1st walmart), southlake had one on kimball rd, richland hills had a discount store (not to be confused with a rufe snow dr supercenter in another suburb)

[@Aurora666_yt]

​@@rowdyjman94 Right on target (no pun intended)! I actually got to visit the Garland hypermart (as a Wal-Mart) a couple of times when I was a kid. I still remember how some workers outside told my parents that the store was closing down and we had to drive to another location. This was shortly before the original discount center on midpark/75 central closed for the supercenter expansion. Now the former hypermart is demolished.

[@rowdyjman94]

@@Aurora666_yt i forgot the hypermart became a supercenter in the 2000s but kept the same building until closing in 2008 then the building set abandoned until 2016 or 2017 when the land was cleared, while the store I mentioned closer to 635 was supposed to replace that store.

[@Tahoe832]

I always wondered what would happen to this WM.

[@IceTheFanDude]

Newer Walmart closed?

[@MrTgd81]

This origanily opened in 2001 or 2000 and it closed in 2008 to get remolded and or rebuilt and reopened in 2012 or 2011 and it closed again it 2021 and even though I don't live in Texas I have seen updates about this place and it is still closed up and abandoned

[@VacDrumLover9646]

​@@MrTgd81Actually this store originally opened in '95.

[@jayeetachakraborty9299]

7:33 as of november 2024, the blue area with the signage is painted gray

[@benjaminvlz]

March 26 is my birthday too!

[@traneproductions5001]

Why are the refrigerators still on

[@paul-roblox5174]

I wonder why that Walmart closed?

[@tonyanthonyironman4352]

Here in NE Ohio all Walmarts are ditching human Cashiers and going Self Scan 💯%. The store in Avon Ohio has no human Cashiers.

[@ZachArmstrong02]

Supposed to go to all self checkouts nationwide

[@tonyanthonyironman4352]

@@ZachArmstrong02 I've been doing the Scan N Go lately and I don't have to wait in line

[@JorgeBonilla-z4e]

This location is borded up in 2024

[@Patric5590]

Are Walmart in painted post had those gates until august of this year and they took it out.

[@amanacatandhisdog8836]

They converted a super Kmart into an academy sports and outdoors a Conns and a boot store in Waco.

[@Rene27627]

Welsaco tx is now a Ross and a lot of stores

[@rayarsenault4774]

6:23 people steal pallets, esp CHEP pallets, and resell them.

[@SantiTrejo-c1m]

It closed in 2021

[@mcpreston08]

I like the new truck what did you do with your car

[@adamparks2438]

in 90 feet make a u-turn if possible at the red light

[@BuccaneerBruce]

Was this one of them that got closed because the employee's tried to form a union?

[@2004RADMAN]

No. Being reuse as like a online delivery hub for Walmart.

[@benjaminmendenhall3104]

At my wallmarts they also have those dam gates that they put in and I did not like it and it was confusing for people to go in and out at the store at the entrance

[@sskoppolu]

@wallieb26, u finally got a new vehicle, nice, way to go, but do u still have the z, or did u have to sell it in order to get your f-150?!:).

[@davidberryhill1123]

When did you get a Ford truck?

[@Jimjam69e]

I went to this exact Walmart only ONE time.

[@GCBlues45]

We have a old K-Mart building here in Granite City,IL. If you like come check it out. Resently it was sold & be something else.

[@nicksabandonedadventures4771]

Will it still be kind of like a Walmart store just a different name

[@LuckyWonderVlogs]

As of April 2023 it is still closed 😢

[@Videocipher]

Hey Wallie ever heard of Zellers?

[@pryorlawncareandlandscapin3692]

if u guys ever come to TN at all i live in a small town in West TN called Mckenzie we had a walmart for many years and it closed in the 90's because the people of the town wanted a super center and walmart said no then in the early 2000's Rural King went in and they stayed there til around 2015 i believe may not be exactly accurate because walmart corp raised the rent on the Building and they didn't wanna pay it and so now the building has been Donated to a church and they are in the building currently

[@dallasmansfield2391]

I have a abondoned Kmart near me kinda like WalMart but it's hella bare

[@theenthusiasmboy2185]

dude almost at 40K subscribers

[@keithkalif2778]

Did you guys get a new car

[@JorgeBonilla-z4e]

This store is still closed

[@wiwewawowu]

Hm, cool repurposing of infrastructure.

[@dallasmansfield2391]

I have a abondoned Kmart near me kinda like walmart

[@wolfaliceinchains]

turn left now.

[@roxannelamar7834]

Who else remember movie wallie pixel

[@DylanW-z3o]

I want see this Walmart unless they turned it into something else.

[@TananBaboo]

I bet somebody could have caught the basket, they thought it would be funny to see a car slam into it at highway speeds. Not so funny.

[@roxannelamar7834]

Walmart is a worse place to work including sam club I just hope that my bosses doesn’t see my comment

[@1cy_H0t_Fr0g]

Walmart more like Ballmart

[@DevouiDevoui]

More like slam my head into a wall mart

[@METALMAN4Wii]

High Theft Store I bet.

[@rossellaperry1865]

I always said this would happen. They built too many . By American made . Bring manufacturing back to America.

[@shelbychurchisbeautiful614]

Walmart - Slogan Save Money Live Better

[@briangreen7151]

And another abandoned Walmart again

[@SenorWoods2722]

Imo. These stores are super ugly

[@lostinthedesert6149]

Maybe a FEMA detention center?

[@Gfysimpletons]

I was thinking more of a shower area?

[@keith_the_hoe]

i've driven by there a bunch of times and wondered why they had closed down. first time i saw it i just said "oh whoops, that walmart closed down"

[@lindamikel7913]

Thanks Wallie and Kayla... Stay Safe!