Walmart Plans Estimated $96M in NJ Store Improvements in 2019

TRENTON, NJ—Bentonville, AK-based Walmart expects to spend an estimated $96 million this year in New Jersey through the remodeling, relocation or expansion of 13 stores, as well as the launch and continued expansion of several customer-focused innovations.

“Walmart is strongly committed to enhancing the overall shopping experience in New Jersey,” says Glen Spencer, Walmart’s regional general manager for New Jersey. “We’re investing millions in technology and innovations, as well as in our people.  This will significantly benefit our customers, whether they’re shopping in-store or online.”

Walmart plans to remodel stores in the following locations:

• 1872 Route 88, Brick
• 2291 North 2^nd Street, Millville
• 55 South White Horse Pike, Hammonton
• 1885 State Route 57, Suite 100, Hackettstown
• Route 513 and I-78, Clinton
• 1303 Centennial Avenue, Piscataway
• 326 West Main Street, Freehold
• 1840 South Black Horse Pike, Williamstown
• 1 Coopertown Boulevard, Somerdale
• 1501 US Highway 22, Watchung
• 220 Enterprise Drive, Rockaway
• 3159 Route 9 South, Rio Grande          (Store Expansion)
• 1601 W Edgar Rd, Linden                     (Store Relocation)

Walmart plans to expand grocery pickup to seven stores across the state by the end of the year, and grocery delivery services to nine stores. The big retailer will also expand its “Walmart Pickup Tower” program of 16-foot tall, high-tech vending machines capable of fulfilling a customer’s online order in less than a minute to nine more New Jersey stores. The chain will also roll out backroom stocking technology called “FAST Unloader” to 15 stores.

Walmart has 71 retail units with 22,457 employees in New Jersey. It says it spent $16.6 billion with New Jersey suppliers in fiscal 2019, and made more than $8.6 million in cash and in-kind donations to local nonprofits in New Jersey last year.