June 8, 2018
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Walmart: Supercenter includes items ordered especially for Warrenton
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so many employees, hiring
will be an ongoing task.
The
150,000-square-foot
Walmart Supercenter has a
bakery, deli and grocery sec-
tion, plus an order-online
and stay-in-your-car grocery
pick-up area.
All the other depart-
ments one would expect in a
Walmart are here, too: shoes,
clothes, toys, baby products,
jewelry, appliances, garden
center, sporting goods. The
entertainment department is
set up in open-stock display,
whereby shoppers can touch
and try out laptops, phones,
TVs and other products. The
vibrantly painted pharmacy
has privacy partitions built
Above: Warrenton Walmart’s spiffed-up storefront.
Below: Empty produce bins wait for last-minute perishables.
Angelica Wright and Brandon Emmons gets items ready for sale in
the office supplies section.
into the counter and a sepa-
rate immunization room.
An in-store pick-up area
is right inside the entrance,
where products ordered
online or via phone wait in
large lockers.
Who would use this service?
“Working full time, I could
order what I needed on my
lunch break and have it ready
when I got off work,” Smith
explains. “Sometimes that
after-work shopping trip can
turn into an hour and a half,
so let us shop for you.”
There’s a Subway restau-
rant inside and room for a
second vendor.
Many products carried in
the new store were ordered
especially for Warrenton and
Clatsop County.
There are “Where the heck
is Warrenton” and “Where
the heck is Seaside” hoodies,
rods made for catching salm-
on, crab traps, an “ultimate
cargo cart” for hauling items
to the beach.
“I’m excited beyond words,”
Smith says of the impending
opening. “I can’t wait to give
the community what they’ve
been waiting for: great items
at a low price.”
Project: Meters went in more efficiently than expected
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the amount of concrete work
necessary at some locations
were too high in the initial re-
quest for funding.
After the meeting, when
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asked why the project went
so well, Stelzig listed the rea-
sons:
No. 1: A caring and trust-
worthy commission and staff.
No. 2: All staff helped this
project succeed, with ad-
ditional effort by (analyst)
Trisha Hayrynen and (wa-
ter quality technician) Brian
Crouter to work with the con-
sultant and contractor.
No. 3: The city selected a
consultant that had experi-
ence with over 30 water me-
ter replacement projects.
“The city recognized the
need to hire a qualified con-
sultant,” Stelzig said. “Then
we trusted our amazing staff
to make the decisions neces-
sary to complete the project
efficiently and in the best in-
terest of the city.”
The contract with Chris Di-
als Contracting initially was
for $174,028, which was re-
duced to $156,436. The city
used Gray & Osborne Con-
sulting Engineers as its proj-
ect manager.