Punjab Farmers Protest: Walmart Closed Its Store In Bathinda

Punjab Farmers Protest: After Adani Logistics Park and Silai Plant, Walmart’s store is now closed, hundreds of workers are in crisis.

After the closure of Adani Group’s Logistic Park in Ludhiana and Silo Plant at Ferozepur due to farmers’ protests in Punjab, now another big company Walmart has stopped its operations in Bathinda.

The Best Prize Store has decided to close. Due to the closure of both the plants of Adani Group, where 800 people have become directly unemployed.

At the same time, due to the closure of this store, the job of about 200 employees working here has become a crisis.

Punjab Farmers Protest: Farmers are sitting outside the star by staging a sit-in from October 1, 2020.

Farmers have been sitting on a dharna outside the store since October 1, 2020.

Apart from the employees working here, the direct impact of the closure of the store will be on those who depend on this store for their business.

The company has a wholesale store of 50 thousand square feet in Bathinda.

From where the small shopkeepers used to take goods for their shops, but due to the loss of crores of rupees to the store due to the strike by the farmers, it has been decided to close it.

Punjab Farmers Protest: Walmart to work through e-commerce in Punjab.

On the other hand, after closing the store, efforts are being made on behalf of the company to work through e-commerce in Punjab.

For this, the company is looking for a suitable location in the state to open a new warehouse and supply it to online orderers.

The store currently has more than 200 employees, but many of them may lose their jobs.

Other businesses will also be affected due to the closure of the store.

Not only this, but the closure of the store will also affect other businesses, who were directly or indirectly supplying goods to Walmart stores.

BKU Ugrahan President Joginder Singh has warned the company against the retrenchment of employees.

The President of BKU said that if the employees are laid off, then he will not allow even a single store of the company to run in Punjab.