Work underway for Carthage Walmart Store
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BY JOHN CHAPPELL
Staff Writer
Going, going, gone are trees, shrubs, an old house and anything else in Walmart's way in Carthage.
The lot where a Walmart Express store will stand has been being cleared of structures, bushes, shrubs, weeds and trees.
One century-old tree - its branches spreading widely from its old stand at the corner of the lot - had to go. That it was "home" to a relatively rare variety of fern was not enough to save it - the N.C. Department of Transportation gave the go-ahead to take it down.
That was not as easy a job as expected. It came to ground piece by piece. First, the outer and upper branches were trimmed off. For a few days it looked as if this might have been done with an eye to leaving the main trunk and certain limbs with the tree in survivable condition.
Later, crews continued cutting until only the trunk and a few thick stubs remained. The following day, the tree had vanished entirely, stump and all. By then the open lot was taking shape. Walmart Express will face N.C. 24/27 on a corner by The Flying Tiger Chinese Restaurant and across the highways from McDonald's.
Parking will be at the front of the store, with trucks delivering by entry at the rear for unloading at a back corner dock on the side. Further back, Walmart's property includes two more lots expected to be made available for other businesses.
Its biggest competition will not be low-price chains like Fred's, Dollar General or Family Dollar but supermarkets like the nearby Food Lion and new Food Lion and Harris Teeter stores on N.C. 22. The big emphasis - about 85 percent of stock - will be groceries in the new store.
You won't find an electronic section with flat-screen TVs, but you can buy one using the Web instead. Items ordered online from walmart.com will be able to be delivered for pickup here, saving residents a trip to Aberdeen, Sanford or Troy stores or costs for home delivery. There will be a kiosk for Web shopping inside the store at the front.
This may not look like an experiment, but it is. While the new Walmart Express will sport the familiar name and asterisk logo, the usual tan and yellow color scheme, it is only a fraction of the size of the company's super-centers: 15,000 square feet compared with more than 100,000. North Carolina is one of three areas where this express concept is being tested.
Application forms for jobs are online, but not at the main Walmart website or any of the job applications kiosks in the super-centers. A special site is the one to use: http://walmartcommunity.com/north-carolina. Available jobs include part-time pharmacy tech, part-time service associates and full-time supervisor positions.
The store is expected to open in mid-November.
Contact John Chappell at (910) 783-5841 or jfchappell@gmail.com.
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RD28327 9 months, 2 weeks ago
There is no Walmart in Troy. There is a Walmart in Biscoe, however. This is just another example of how folks at The Pilot do not do any proofreading or fact checking before they publish anything on the web or in the print edition.
churchill 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Wow - You really nailed the Pilot good. Great service to the community digging thru secret records and digging that information up. I wonder if 60 minutes has gotten word of this?
blue1 9 months, 2 weeks ago
@ churchill = hilarious!!
cantstandya 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Sounds as if the new Detention Center and WalMart will be having their grand openings about the same time.
cooldaddy 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Carthage already has a detention center. What it dosen't have is a Public Safety Center. Your buddy toda the guru has been lying for a year and calling it a prison. It will house 911, The Sheriff's office and 4 or 5 other offices. But this is about the walmart express. Good for Carthage! Why anyone is opposed to Carthage getting business is beyond reason.
NewspaperReader 9 months, 2 weeks ago
A tiny Wal-Mart... interesting.
cantstandya 9 months, 2 weeks ago
cooldaddy,-Excuse my mistake on calling the PSC a detention center, as for me having a "buddy" you stand to be corrected on that, I have no friends on this site, this is more like a members only club with all of you being so close, no I just ramble around on my own, don't feel the need to have him or you or anyone else as my "buddy". Just keep it to the subject matter, or chat with your"buddies" like you normally do.
cooldaddy 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Not my buddies or cronies. You stay to yourself too. Ramble on. You are still 100 percent on the friends. no worries.I don't let the bullies worry me either. And you stick to the subject matter as well.
Bflat 9 months, 2 weeks ago
The current Detention Center has a new building containing federal sized cells, 4 stories tall, and the Pub Safety is 3 stories. This monstrosity between McNeill and Dowd is supposed to be completed in Nov and is said to be 146,998SF.
On the article subject, notice the writer indicates competition to Walmart but not the opposite. Walmart will be big competition to Fred's, Dollar General and to Family Dollar Stores. As for me, I will not shop at Walmart. It has sold tainted vegetables, meat with listeria, frozen veggies with glass shards in the past, and cadmium tainted kid's jewelry (do an internet search as this has been on the TV.) It is a big enterprise that cripples the smaller stores, has a track record of unfairness to employees, poor customer service and poor quality products.
ohreally 9 months, 2 weeks ago
As if the quality products from the Dollar store come from a different China...
NewspaperReader 9 months, 2 weeks ago
"Walmart will be big competition to Fred's, Dollar General and to Family Dollar Stores."
Is there an issue with that?
cantstandya 9 months, 2 weeks ago
It all comes from China, Made in America labels are collectables, if you find one hang on to it or put it on Ebay.
DaveyNC 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Bflat, by your standards, you can't shop anywhere. I doubt that there is a retailer anywhere that hasn't been guilty of some or all of those things you mentioned. Glass shards in frozen veggies? What, are they supposed to open and inspect every bag their supplier sells to them? Wal Mart didn't make that mistake, the supplier did.
You've set an impossible standard to meet here. You'd better stop shopping at stores and start making all of your own stuff. It's the only way that you can be 100% sure that your standards will be met. You're gonna need 40 acres, fertilizer, an oil well, an iron mine, copper mine, a tractor----oh, hell, read this and you'll get an understanding of what it takes: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
Toda 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Small town ~ scaled down Wal-Mart. Carthage residents can still drive to Aberdeen to enjoy a true buying experience.
cantstandya 9 months, 2 weeks ago
We have the same resources as China, what we also have are laws that prevent our manufactors from using child labor, unsafe working conditions, and a host of other regulations, but our government does nothing to prevent those goods to be sold here, we cannot compete so China has a very good market place right here to distribute their goods, they use that right as leverage, stop buying China made goods and they will cut off our ability to get loans, something this government has started to depend on.
Toda 9 months, 2 weeks ago
DaveyNC => good essay on a pencil, very interesting and a good read ~ I might add. Ubiquity in process ...!
Bflat 9 months, 2 weeks ago
No need to rely on things from the "made in" company, Pakistan, India or others. Many veggies can be grown in containers on a porch or back yard or in a garden. There are local farms to get beef, deer hunters and ways to get local meat and cheese.
Walmart track record of poor service, poor quality products, and unprofessional treatment of its employees speaks for itself. How many stores can Carthage support?
chr1sbr1an 9 months, 2 weeks ago
I for one, am fine with Walmart coming in. I see a lower unemployment rate in the future for Moore County. And who can oppose that!
Yes Walmart will be competition for the other stores. What's wrong with competition. No one is worse at QUALITY products than Fred's. I made the mistake of purchasing sheets from there and when I got up, my body had turned as red as those sheets were!
Dollar General and Family Dollar carry the EXACT same products. So if Walmart can save me a dollar, YEP! Imma shop there. It's my hard earned money and since the cost of living is only rising, you bet I'm going to save every penny possible.
Customer Service, has anyone been to the Carthage McDonalds or BK in Aberdeen? Those to me HAVE TO WORST employees with the WORST attitudes. Besides, customer service is not a company issue, that's a management issue.
I was hoping this Mini Walmart would carry more household items rather than food. Basic plumbing or electrical supplies would be nice. Don't even tell me to go to Keith's hardware. I have NO clue where anything is and THEY ARE WAY TOO EXPENSIVE!
So I am looking forward to a familiar money saver closer to home and my daughter is looking forward to hopefully getting a job.
RD28327 9 months, 2 weeks ago
It's too bad Aberdeen has a scaled down Best Buy ...
RD28327 9 months, 2 weeks ago
And, will this mini Walmart sell mini skirts, mini bikes or even Mini Wheats?
Toda 9 months, 2 weeks ago
RD ~ as compared to none in Carthage ... it has one huge offering ...
Toda 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Bflat ~ interesting that you brought up home gardening ... a friend brought up "pallet gardening" on FB. I really don't think he grew that much, but I'll give GS the benefit of doubt. Mine has produced well with constant TLC. Tomato vines are now over 6 feet and I have officially stopped buying tomatoes from Wal-Mart...there is not better eating than from one's own garden.
cooldaddy 9 months, 2 weeks ago
RD...this idiot toda and his puppet flat, does nothing but talk and dosen't like Carthage. That's ok... Carthage will move on and they will still be idiots. Aberdeen has a nice downtown area that I wish people would associate with the name Aberdeen. Unfortunatly it is thought of a jumble of chain stores and nasty intersections by most. Bloggers have the vision of a Totally Oblivious Dumb A blogger with a flat top you could land a chopper on screaming hate at the rest of the county while he dosen't care what goes on in Aberdeen, even though he lives right by it. Sad Sack
tklad5 9 months, 2 weeks ago
I say let Target come in and Wipe all the Walmart's out. Well,at least the only ONE in Aberdeen, which needs to be knocked down. Maybe they could remodel? Like they have to all the Walmart's in in Fayetteville. Or , they could just abandon yet another property to build a brand new one!!! They should be fined each time they leave a perfectly good building!!!
Toda 9 months, 2 weeks ago
cooldaddy ~ want to meet and discuss your opinions and differences like a real man with civil discourse? Or remain anonymous and rant on like a kindergarten kid?
vikingmom 9 months, 2 weeks ago
coming from the mom of a child recently hired at McDonalds, chr1sbr1an, I can tell you that the staff has changed. The customer service there has improved immensely. They make customer service a # 1 priority there now..As far as Walmart coming to Carthage, we need it..With gas continuing to inch on up higher and higher I personally hate those 20 minute drives to Sanford or Aberdeen..And to know that we can order stuff and it be delivered to the store that makes it even better..