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Walmart to pay $20 to $34 an hour to staff its new Lancaster grocery warehouse

The automated warehouse has machinery that makes it twice as productive with less manual heavy lifting and more tech-focused jobs.

Walmart is hiring 500 people for new tech-focused jobs in its 730,000-square-foot automated grocery distribution center south of Dallas in Lancaster that will open this year.

The jobs pay $20 to $34 an hour and include asset protection, systems and maintenance roles, Walmart said. The automated facility will move more than two times the volume of a traditional distribution center, Walmart said, while improving accuracy, quality and speed.

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Equipment installed will result in less heavy lifting by workers.

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The grocery operation will feed Walmart’s local stores. Next door is a 1.5-million-square foot online fulfillment center that isn’t open yet but will fill customer general merchandise orders. Both buildings are in the Dallas County Inland Port area and are scheduled to open later this fall.

Walmart announced the Lancaster project in 2021 and has been building similar operations in other states to modernize its supply chain network.

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When the city of Lancaster approved the two facilities and granted property tax and sales tax rebates, Walmart said the total cost was $800 million. It expects to create more than 1,000 jobs.

Walmart managers are interviewing candidates from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday at the office of Workforce Solutions in RedBird, 3560 W. Camp Wisdom Road, Dallas. Applicants can also apply for roles at careers.walmart.com.

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