With Walmart planning to open fewer stores next year in favor of e-commerce and tech investments, it’s difficult to see what the future holds for experiments like Walmart Express Campus. The first of these mini-stores opened in 2011 at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and spread to four different colleges in Missouri, Georgia, Virginia and Arizona. Today, only three of these locations remain open. The Georgia Tech store closed in 2015, and the University of Missouri campus store closed October 7. With flaws being discovered in the experiment, it’s unclear whether or not the campus stores will stick around for much longer.
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