Fort Scott Walmart will be going through a store transformation for over three months, starting soon.

People may have noticed containers delivered to the parking lot’s north part, in front of the garden center.

About 40 containers will be parked there in the next few weeks and fences around them will go up. These will be used for the store transformation.

Heather, the store manager, said it will be a “total store transformation….to a store of the future.”

“The store will be brighter, more spacious, easier to navigate…. (and) more energy efficient technology, reducing the environmental impact and providing a safer environment,” she said at a recent Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce Coffee, hosted by Walmart, where she made the store transformation announcement.

“We don’t anticipate being closed at all, however, hiccups do happen,” she said in an interview with fortscott.biz.

The expected completion is in November 2024, approximately 14 weeks, she said.

“We will move everything (in the store), but it will be worth it in the end,” she said.

The store of the future will continue to have both associates-manned registers and self-check-out registers, she said.

“There have been mixed reactions on the self-check,” she said. “Some people love it because you can be in and out quickly.”

“Some feel it takes away jobs,” she said.  “But since I came in 2018 when there were 170 associates…there are now over 200.”