Walmart is closing at least nine US stores across eight states.
The closing stores include one Walmart Supercenter in Lafayette, Louisiana, and eight Walmart Neighborhood Market stores in Arizona, California, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington.
The closing date for most of the affected stores is April 19, according to employees of those stores, who confirmed the closings to Business Insider.
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