New ‘customer-centric’ Walmart opens with private care rooms & more self-checkouts – despite backlash over special lanes [Video]

WALMART customers may be surprised on their next shopping trip as a store made major changes to its checkout systems and layout.

The retailer hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this month for a Walmart Supercenter in Salem, Ohio – about an hour and a half southeast of Cleveland. 

The supermarket, located at 2875 E. State Street, features several renovations that store employees say have been implemented to enhance the shopping experience and focus on customers.

The store, which first opened in 2003, reopened its doors with the changes on July 19, according to Mahoning Matters.

The renovations are part of Walmart’s initiative to remodel thousands of stores across the county in a project it has dubbed “Stores of the Future.” 

Among the changes…