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‘Weeks’ until reopening, Walmart paying 240 employees BY ERIN STEWART
Trenton – The roughly 240 employees at Trenton’s Walmart Supercentre continue to be paid for scheduled shifts while work is done to clean up and re-stock after a fire on Tuesday Nov. 15. Alex Robertson, senior director of corporate affairs for Walmart Canada, said all employees are being paid according to their schedules and will continue to be paid while the store is closed. “They are still being paid,” said Robertson. “Our focus now is getting the store cleaned up and then we will have to restock it because a lot of the merchandise has been damaged by smoke. So there’s work to get the store setup that those associates will help do as well.” Associates and contractors are working around the clock to get the store reopened as quickly as possible, said Robertson. He said he expects it will be “a matter of weeks” before the store is ready to be reopened. “We want to make sure that the store is back up to the standards the customers expect,” he said. Massive inventory loss, owing to smoke and water damage, is pushing estimates for the cost of damage at around $4 million. Robertson said all merchandise has to be assessed and products that can be donated will be given to charities, but most of the products will have to be destroyed. “A lot of the product has to be destroyed unfortunately,” he said. “Anything that was damaged, we would like to donate as much as we can, but we have to make sure that the product we make available for donation is actually safe to donate. “If a product shouldn’t be sold because it’s damaged or it’s contaminated then it shouldn’t be donated either, so that’s what we’re looking into.”
Belfor. a national disaster team, hired to restore Walmart after the fire on Tuesday Nov. 15. Erin Stewart/Metroland
Quinte West Fire Chief John Whelan said the Ontario Fire Marshal’s office has completed its investigation and the Quinte West OPP are now taking over the investigation as of Friday, Nov. 18. Whelan said there is no comment on the cause of the fire at this time. The blaze, described as relatively small in scope and in-
tensity, touched off alarms and sprinklers at about 3 a.m. Tuesday Nov. 15 in a storage room behind the footwear department of the store. It was put out shortly after firefighters arrived, but damage from smoke and water throughout the store is extensive.
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