Walmart Is Making a Major Change To Its Early Morning

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Walking through Walmart's aisles might be exhilarating due to the bright lights, flashing TVs, and radio music. Starting this week, early morning Walmart

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Most Walmart stores offered sensory-friendly hours on Saturdays from 8 to 10 a.m. during back-to-school season in July and August. Walmart

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shut off the radio, reduced the lights, and made its TV walls static during certain hours.

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These adjustments were part of a trial effort to make Walmart's stores more accessible and entertaining for sensory disability consumers.

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Walmart stated this week that it would reinstate sensory-friendly shopping hours at all US and Puerto Rico locations starting Nov. 10

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after getting "overwhelmingly positive" feedback regarding the pilot program. The sensory-friendly hours will run daily from 8 to 10 a.m.

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We hope our customers and workers find the stores easier to see and hear during these hours. According to the release, these adjustments

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were made based on customer feedback on how retailers should make them feel at home.

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Walmart continues to accept suggestions for improving its sensory-friendly hours, according to the notice. Walmart shoppers could express their ideas

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