Wal-Mart replaces Garland Hypermart with first ‘Hispanic community’ store – Texas From: dallasnews.com

That question has long since been answered, and now Wal-Mart is replacing that historic store with a new location it’s calling its first “Hispanic community” store.

With an estimated 14 percent of its U.S. shoppers being Latino, Wal-Mart in recent years has been tailoring stores, such as its I-30 and Cockrell Hill location in Dallas, to meet the needs of Hispanic families. It has added specialty bakery items, expanded varieties of chile peppers, printed store signs and advertising circulars in Spanish and last year stocked baby Abuelita dolls for Three Kings Day celebrations.

But the new Garland store at 1801 Marketplace Drive is the first designed from the ground up to meet the needs of Hispanic shoppers, said Daniel Morales, regional spokesman for Wal-Mart.”*

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