EVERETT — Wal-Mart’s newest store is opening Wednesday across from the Everett Mall.
The company hired about 200 employees for the 90,000-square-foot store.
The newest location is at the former Top Foods supermarket at 1605 SE Everett Mall Way. The retail giant bought the property about four years ago for $10 million. The store will include a deli and grocery aisles that offer local vegetables and fruit and wine.
This is the seventh Walmart in the county with the eighth expected to open in Monroe in November.
The store opens at a time when Wal-Mart faces declining profits and increasing competition from online retailers.
Between its primary Wal-Mart chain and its Sam’s Club locations, the Bentonville, Alabama-based company has more than 4,200 stores in the U.S.,
A group called Stand Against Walmart says it plans to protest the new store Saturday. It is critical of the company’s firearms sales, wages for sales staff and its effect on local businesses.
A handful of employees joined labor organizers in June to protest the company’s working conditions at the Lynnwood store.
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