West Chatham

It might be just a case of growing pains. But once more there are indications that Wal-Mart’s new Express format isn’t working out quite as planned. Crain’s Chicago Business reports the retailer made the decision to shutter its 10,0000-sq.-ft. Express store in the West Chatham area of Chicago and has not gone ahead with any additional Express stores in the Chicago area, in spite of previous plans. Wal-Mart’s executives claim the West Chatham store had to be closed because it was cannibalizing sales from a newly opened nearby supercenter. However, according to an

ShareThis BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Wal-Mart here said Wednesday it plans to open a Walmart Express and a Walmart Market in the West Englewood section of Chicago — an area it described as the heart of Chicago's food desert and one of the city's most underserved communities. The Walmart Market — the format formerly known as Neighborhood Market — is scheduled to open in the spring of 2012 in West Englewood; the Walmart Express, the company's new, under-30,000-square-foot format, is scheduled to open in the same area in the winter of 2012. Julie Murphy, senior vice president, Walmart U.S., who