HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With close to 600 stores and Sam’s Club locations throughout Texas, Walmart stands ready to use its size and strength to support South Texas as the region braces for Hurricane Harvey. The Walmart Emergency Operations Center is in full activation. The Walmart EOC is the company’s centralized platform for crisis coordination with store operations, logistics and several other teams dedicated to helping stores, clubs and customers during and after this storm.
The Walmart EOC is in constant communication with stores and clubs and is accelerating deliveries of bottled water, ready-to-eat foods, flashlights, batteries, fuel containers, and other emergency items to throughout South Texas to help meet customer demand as residents stock up on essential items.
As Walmart associates are focused on serving customers during this critical time, the company is focused on associates’ safety and their needs. The company has programs in place to assist associates personally that may be impacted by the storm.
Walmart has a long history of supporting communities around the globe when impacted by disaster. In the last 10 years, Walmart and the Walmart Foundation have donated more than $60 million in cash and in-kind donations in response to disaster events, which includes the recent floods and tornadoes in Texas.
About Walmart
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) helps people around the world save money and live better - anytime and anywhere - in retail stores, online, and through their mobile devices. Each week, over 260 million customers and members visit our more than 11,600 stores under 59 banners in 28 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. With fiscal year 2017 revenue of $485.9 billion, Walmart employs approximately 2.3 million associates worldwide. Walmart continues to be a leader in sustainability, corporate philanthropy and employment opportunity. Additional information about Walmart can be found by visiting http://corporate.walmart.com, on Facebook at http://facebook.com/walmart and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/walmart.
