UPDATE on Walmart: How You Will be Affected, Hiring Center Now Open

It's official. Walmart will be open for business this Fall in San Ramon as the hiring processes commence.

Taking over the vacant building where Le Asia used to be, the mass superstore hopes to attract people to apply to the new positions available. 

A temporary hiring center has been opened to assist with the general hiring process. 

"We are excited to add this Walmart Neighborhood Market to San Ramon and bring good jobs with career opportunities in the area," said Balthazar Garcia, Walmart San Ramon's Store Manager.

Country Club Village has had businesses come and go, including crumbling big box store Albertson's — traffic also increased during that time, making the location a bustling hub of shoppers.

"When Walmart in Pleasanton moved in, we saw a change with the homes' value. More people are in need of jobs, and more jobs means people will need a place to live," said Ramon Conception, of Better Homes and Garden Tri-Valley Realty.

The new jobs that Walmart will be providing also come with an affordable benefit plan including medical insurance, 401(k) contributions of up to 6 percent of pay, t on general merchandise, Associate Stock Purchase Program, and company-paid life insurance.

In addition, eligible associates receive a quarterly incentive based on store performance. Garcia said associates are needed to work in all areas of the new store, including supervisory positions.

Regardless of ongoing resistence to the new chain store's arrival,  —a growing number of stores that continues to permeate local neighborhoods.

"Either way," Conception adds, "it will be a positive effect for the community."

Interested applicants can go to the new hiring location at 9110 Alcosta Boulevard, Suite H in San Ramon, between 8-6pm or apply online at their website.

Do you think the new Walmart store is good for Dublin/San Ramon residents?

Tell us what you think in the comments section below.

Here's some of what people are saying on Facebook:

• Helene Chatterjee Hate it. 
• Sharon Phillips Osgood Dislike Walmart is the worst company ever!
• Paula Fluker I will never patronize walmart. They treat employees horribly.
• Isabel Lau It is just a market and I can't wait to see that space filled with a business.
• Aynakus Negative. No Walmart please.
• Phil Downing Awesome...jobs, economic stimulation...much needed.
• Kimberly Ann Snowden Kraft The neighborhood needs a grocery store. The space has been vacant for years. Hopefully it will give that center a boost. 
• Andrea Courant I'm going to give it a try but am still going to support CVS for basic items!
• Cindy Pappalardo-Murphy It is only the supermarket part. Walmart is test casing these stores all over. I know Isabel would have preferred a Trader Joe's as would I but this is what is going in there. I know a small business that was awesome that had to close when Ralph's and then the Asian market left due to List sales. Let's hope that doesn't happen anymore.
• Jack Winthorp Same stores next to each other. City of san ramon should have reported propsition to city homeowners in area. Didnt do proper job. Variety please!
• Teresa Finch I'm all for Walmart. Yeah businesses complain it pushes prices down to far but I think some businesses need a reality check. Charging $5 per pound for a decent lean ground beef? No! Home cooking should never cost more than eating out. I say good on ya Walmart! Bump out the businesses that take advantage of people.
• Johnny Humes I SAY BOYCOT!!!!!!!!!
• Jackie Fisher Strongly dislike Walmart and everything about it. Will never shop there.
• Elena Papageorge Culver Disappointed. We'd like a Trader Joe's, please, not Walmart. Yuck.
• SallyAnne Sherwood Andersson As mentioned above, that space has been vacant for years, and I had hoped a Trader Joe's would go in there. I was very upset to hear Walmart was going in and we didn't have any input, but when I learned it was going to be a grocery store rather than a full blown Walmart it is the better of the two options. Hopefully it will help to revive the shopping center once again.
• Michael Moore This was all rehashed months ago in the Valley Times folks. Don't like Walmart? Don't shop there, don't work there, don't buy their stock. All was done here in accordance with City regs. And it will be good for the neighborhood. In the meantime please spare us from the SEIU and UFCW anti-Walmart screeds.
• Mary Bush Leoni I will boycott too. Hate Walmart!!!
• Helene Chatterjee Boycott. Always have, always will. Walmart is evil. If you're interested as to why. Check out " Walmart the high cost of low price" it's an eye opener. 
• Jen Henry walmart does not pay its employees a liveable wage. in order to save money on costs, what kind of horrific pesticide covered foodstuff will they be selling? pink slime for $3 a pound? no thank you!
• Isabella Europa Despite all the negative media on Wal-Mart, it's still a thriving business. I'm wondering if it will survive in that shopping area...the last two stores didn't do so well.
• Lisa Wyrabkiewicz Bradshaw I have been a business owner in this shopping center for almost 15 years and whereas Walmart would not be my first choice, I welcome the economic stimulation it will bring to this area. In the big scheme of things the likelyhood of a small, boutiquey type of store that we all dream would occupy the space would never be able to sustain a 10,000+ sq foot location with the current rent pricing. I'm hoping that the new store presence will send a wakeup call to Safeway and bring some competition to the retail food front. I noticed a change in pricing when Target added their grocery section and I hope that a full service grocery store will help drive food prices down in a way that Sprouts was unable and Grocery Outlet can't compete. I should like to think that the new grocery locations and smaller, less big box stores are Walmarts way of attempting to change their business plan. Just my two cents for what it's worth.
• Eric Wan No need for it. We already have target n walmart in the area. Plus itll make our hood ghetto, bring our property value down. See the type of ppl that hang out at walmart? Pretty ghetto.
• Eric Vejby Major step down for San Ramon. Despite all the white washing and political/corporate propaganda, this is bad for the community. Sure, I'll never shop there or get exploited by working there, but brace yourselves for the 99 cent store, and the new thrift shop that will surely follow. 
• David Leath One scuzzy one in Pleasanton is enough!
• Michael Moore By the way folks if you had been following this story months ago, you would know that it is a food store only not a larger Walmart. The center has no space for a larger operation. The only impact: a store in a location built to be a store, elimation of vacant space (which really does bring down property values) and convenince and better prices for the immediate area. Nasty negative commentators need to get over yourselves!
• James Harper Take a drive through Oakland if you want to see how vacant buildings affect property value. Yeah a pretentious, upscale, expensive market and the expensive boutiques that follow would've fit right in, but then again some of us don't see thrift stores as bad things - just ask the local "mom & pop" that happen to own said thrift store. Also, I don't see why people from outside of the area would travel past one Walmart to get to this one, so if you worry about your "hood becoming ghetto" then I suppose the "ghetto" folks are already here.
• James Harper I personally don't care for Walmart much either, but I care for abandoned buildings much less. I wonder how much the small businesses in that shopping center will hate the influx of potential shoppers. Walmart customer money is just as green as Whole Foods customer money. Besides only a large operation could make use of that space. It's too big for any Trader Joes that I've ever been into.
• Cat Bochow Penate Hate it. The last two grocery stores there failed, possibly more... I'd love to see the building divided, perhaps like Emeryville's Public Market.