June 8, 2012
The Only Weekly Newspaper Exclusively for the Rancho Santa Margarita and Coto de Caza Area
The Coto de Caza News
RANCHO WAL-MART OPENS HIRING OFFICE WORLD’S LARGEST RETAILER NOW HIRING HELP FOR RANCHO STORE
Sorry, Wrong Location! Sign says Hiring Office Open but it’s down the street.
Actual Location of the Wal-Mart Hiring Office back behind the Shell Station
The Wal-Mart retail grocery operation is anticipated to open in Rancho Santa Margarita sometime around the end of July this year. Wal-Mart is also the biggest private employer in the world with over two million employees, and is the largest retailer in the world with 8,970 locations and 180 Billion in assets. Although Wal-Mart’s contractors are currently renovating a “small” 30,000 square foot space between Lowe’s and Staples on Avenida de Las Flores in Rancho Santa Margarita where they say they will open what they call a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market which is their term for their
Wal-Mart Neighborhood Markets are used to fill the gap between discount store and supercenters, offering a variety of products, which include full lines of groceries, pharmaceuticals, health and beauty aids, photo developing services, including beer, wine and a limited selection of merchandise. They will need at least 50 new hires from the Rancho area to supplement staff transferring from other area Wal-Marts to work in the already popular Rancho Santa Margarita store location. Wal-Mart’s Hiring office staff were pleasant and polite to prospective employees who came in to get an
chain of grocery stores that average about 42,000 square feet, the Hiring Center is not located at the new store. The hiring center is located at 30092 Santa Margarita Parkway, but you won’t find it by driving up and down the boulevard. It’s located way back behind the Shell station at the” Interchange Plaza” sign. Deep inside the shopping center, past the FedEx Kinko’s where the former Eagle Credit Union used to be is the new Wal-Mart Hiring Center. The telephone number may be unlisted, and the employment office location may be half a mile from the actual store, but despite these deterrents they say they are now open for hiring.
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application, but they would not allow our Coto de Caza News photographer to take any pictures of the inside of their spacious office. When the photographer agreed to leave and said he would go outside and just take a photo of the outside of the building so our readers would know the location, the manager rushed outside and said that he could not take any pictures of the outside of the building either. Job seekers should visit the WalMart Hiring Office (shown in the photo above), during business hours at 30092 Santa Margarita Parkway.
Huge row of Food Freezers and Refrigerators ready to be stocked