New Walmart supercenter opens in Las Vegas Valley
Lisa Park joined the line for the new Walmart in the southwestern Las Vegas Valley around 2:45 a.m. Wednesday.
It would be another five hours before Park became one of the first people to shop at the store at Blue Diamond Road and Rainbow Boulevard.
With the other people in line, she talked about the World Series, about two separate car crashes just down the street from the Walmart and how, like many shoppers, she isn’t loyal to any particular stores.
“I go where the deals are,” she said.
The Walmart is the first new Supercenter in the valley in nine years. At 165,000 square feet, the store employs about 300 employees, manager Candace Vandervaart said.
The store is still hiring. Jobs are listed at careers.walmart.com. The average full-time Walmart worker makes $14.20 an hour in Nevada.
Open 24 hours, the new store has a drive-thru pharmacy and auto center and will allow customers to pick up groceries ordered online starting Nov. 14. Walmart has about 40,000 groceries in its online inventory, according to a company statement Wednesday.
Walmart bought the Blue Diamond land in 2012 for $5.3 million. The company has about 30 stores in the valley, according to its website.
Contact Wade Tyler Millward at wmillward@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-4602. Follow @wademillward on Twitter.
