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Some Walmart Stores No Longer Open 24 Hours

Nine stores in Maryland are cutting back on overnight operations.

Several Walmart stores are reducing their hours this week, including the one in the Golden Ring shopping center.

These Maryland stores will no longer be open 24 hours, Walmart spokesman Brian Nick told Patch:

Nationwide, Walmart is rolling back round-the-clock operations at 40 stores.

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Other stores making the move away from being open 24 hours are in the New Jersey and Philadelphia areas, according to the Baltimore Business Journal.

The change was made on a store-by-store basis after the company reviewed patterns of its shoppers, Nick told Bloomberg.

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Stores will be open from 6 a.m. to midnight daily, according to Nick.

When the stores are closed between midnight and 6 a.m., employees can restock shelves, The Daily Journal reported.

Walmart tested the schedule change in more than 20 locations in the west during the spring, Nick said in an email to Patch. He told The Daily Journal: ”We would expect more stores to do this.”

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