{"id":250312,"date":"2026-07-23T14:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250312\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T14:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:42:06","slug":"former-walgreens-location-could-become-walmart-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250312\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Walgreens location could become Walmart hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart&#8217;s campaign to set up Spark shops at former drug store locations may be coming next to the Mon Valley. <\/p>\n<p>Spark shops are depots where gig workers pick up e-commerce orders and make last mile deliveries to customers.<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Business Times reports Walmart has signed a long-term lease for the now closed Walgreens store on Seventh Avenue in Homestead.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart is reportedly looking into opening the same type of store in two other local locations.<\/p>\n<p>The former Rite Aid on Noblestown Road and the Rite Aid in Bloomfield in the West End could become a Walmart delivery depot that would allow for faster home delivery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walmart&#8217;s campaign to set up Spark shops at former drug store locations may be coming next to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20356,43365,73,75,74,8785,37980,23258],"class_list":["post-250312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-hub","tag-mon-valley","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-shopping","tag-spark","tag-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}