Here’s A Look Inside The Last Days Of Some Closing Walmarts

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We expect that Walmart stores are crammed full of merchandise and people, and they look wrong when they no longer have either. Walmart recently completed a round of store closings, including the entire Walmart Express chain. Naturally, some of our readers were there, and brought their cameras.

Joe sent us these photos from San Jose, CA. These might look like a regular old Supercenter clearance aisle, but every aisle was like this. The bargain-hunting (and possibly reselling) horde had cleaned almost everything out. “Lines were incredibly long, grocery aisles were either bare or jammed with other merchandise,” he reported, four days before the store finally closed.

Here are more photos from retail chronicler Nicholas Eckhart: these were taken in Hartland, Michigan on January 23.

by Laura Northrup via Consumerist