{"id":145596,"date":"2026-02-06T03:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145596\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T03:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:10:21","slug":"walmart-debuts-latest-supercenter-in-jacksonville-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145596\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart debuts latest Supercenter in Jacksonville, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This story was originally published on Retail Dive<\/a>. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Retail Dive newsletter<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Adding to Walmart\u2019s \u201cStore of the Future\u201d concept, the mass retailer opened its newest Supercenter located<\/a> in the Oakleaf community of Jacksonville, Florida, per a Wednesday press release. A store opening event included giveaways, live musical entertainment and a meet-and-greet with a former Jacksonville Jaguar football player.<\/p>\n

The new location features a refreshed store layout with expanded home and apparel offerings, as well as a fresh sushi bar and a selection of Oakleaf merchandise.<\/p>\n

The retailer\u2019s latest large-format opening follows the opening of another Supercenter and a Neighborhood Market store in Florida last month.<\/p>\n

Walmart\u2019s new Florida Supercenter is the latest opening after a multiyear pause on its largest store format.<\/p>\n

The new store represents another milestone in Walmart\u2019s plan to build or convert more than 150 stores<\/a>\u00a0by 2029.<\/p>\n

Last May, Walmart opened its first new <\/a>Supercenter<\/a> in about four years. The Cypress, Texas, store opening was part of a larger multimillion-dollar modernization plan and was the first U.S. location under the \u201cStore of the Future\u201d model.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis store was built with the customer in mind,\u201d John Furner, Walmart Inc.\u2019s new CEO<\/a> who previously served as the CEO of its U.S. business, said in a statement last year. \u201cIt\u2019s part of a larger transformation happening across our stores as we reimagine what shopping looks like for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mass retailer\u2019s new Supercenter also opens a few weeks after it was revealed Amazon is working to build its first big-format store<\/a> outside of Chicago.<\/p>\n

The e-commerce giant\u2019s 225,000-square-foot retail store concept will have a focus on fresh groceries, as well as other household essential merchandise. Walmart\u2019s Supercenters, in comparison, average 179,000 square feet.<\/p>\n

Amazon’s proposed store is undergoing review from local entities and would lay within a larger 35-acre retail-focused parcel.<\/p>\n

Walmart\u2019s e-commerce business has become much more competitive over the years, though it still focuses on stores.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve been a part of developing our strategy on capital for automation, the transformation from having a store business and an e-commerce business to becoming omni,\u201d Furner said on an earnings call with analysts<\/a> in November.\u00a0\u201cWe have a lot of momentum, and I think that strategy is solid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story was originally published on Retail Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,116,118,70483,117,70481,70482,70485,70484,69763,17456],"class_list":{"0":"post-145596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguar","12":"tag-jacksonville-news","13":"tag-john-furner","14":"tag-retail-store-concept","15":"tag-store-format","16":"tag-store-layout","17":"tag-supercenter","18":"tag-walmart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}