Walmart is closing a store in Ohio a week after shuttering 2 locations in San Diego

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Walmart closed two stores in the San Diego area on February 9 and will close one in Ohio on Friday.
A spokesperson cited financial underperformance as the reason for the decision.
The company closed at least 22 locations across 14 states last year.

Walmart will close a store in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, just one week after the closure of a pair of stores in the San Diego metro area that it said did not meet financial performance expectations.

“We are grateful to the customers who have given us the privilege of serving them at our San Diego and El Cajon stores,” Walmart spokesperson Brian Little said in a statement to Business Insider in January. “We look forward to continuing to serve them at any of our many locations across the area, on Walmart.com, and through delivery to their home or business.”

The two San Diego stores employed a combined 357 workers who are eligible for transfer to another location, the company said, and Walmart will continue to operate over a dozen stores and warehouse clubs in the area.

The store in Columbus employs about 177 workers, and the company said in filings with the state that they would be eligible to apply for open roles at other locations.

Walmart had over 4,600 retail locations in the US as of last October, a figure that includes 3,548 supercenters, 356 discount stores, and roughly 700 neighborhood markets and other small format stores. In addition, the company also has about 600 Sam’s Club warehouses.

The company said in January it will build or remodel over 150 stores in the next five years, plus renovations for 650 locations this year.

Last year, Business Insider tracked the closures of at least 22 Walmart locations across the US, including four in Chicago. Financial performance was cited in those cases as well.

Walmart was one of at least 20 major retailers that Business Insider identified as having announced the closure of as many as 2,847 stores in the US in 2023.

Here are the latest Walmart closings:

California:

2121 Imperial Ave. in San Diego
605 Fletcher Parkway in El Cajon

Ohio:

3579 S. High St. in Columbus

Here are the confirmed openings:

Georgia:

Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Atlanta (Neighborhood Market)

Florida:

U.S. Highway 98 East in Santa Rosa Beach (Neighborhood Market)

12 additional locations are planned to begin construction this year.

Do you work or shop at one of the Walmart stores above and want to share your thoughts? Contact reporter Dominick Reuter at dreuter@insider.com.