Employer · WARN Act history · Retail Trade
Walmart
4,022 workers across 17 WARN notices, primarily in WA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 4,022
- Workers cut
- 17
- WARN notices
- 8
- States
- 237
- Avg / notice
Walmart has 17 recorded WARN filings affecting 4,022 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Walmart has 17 recorded filings covering 4,022 workers across 8 states, primarily WA, the 29th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
Walmart accounts for 3.0% of Retail Trade's 135,000 WARN-laid-off workers across 330 tracked employers in the dataset — #7 in Retail Trade by workers affected.
How 4,022 workers split by filing year
Calendar-year totals from WARN notice_date fields in this dataset, the same figures summed in the notice history below.
Walmart WARN workers by state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, grouped by the state agency that received the notice, not a corporate headcount by HQ state.
Walmart WARN workers by year and state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, crossed by calendar year and filing state, for the top 6 states by total workers affected.
| Year | AR | WA | FL | MD | IN | CA | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | 253 | – | – | – | 193 | 446 |
| 2024 | – | 62 | – | 213 | – | – | 275 |
| 2023 | 2,000 | 198 | 495 | – | – | – | 2,693 |
| 2022 | – | 147 | – | – | – | – | 147 |
| 2019 | – | 80 | – | – | 109 | – | 189 |
| 2018 | – | – | – | – | 95 | – | 95 |
Walmart city concentration · concentrated
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
Bentonville accounts for 49.7% of Walmart's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 66%.
Lead city Bentonville · 49.7% · 15 named cities · top-3 share 66%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer WALMART · Walmart 4,022 workers · 17 filings
NOTC-MID · WORK-TOP · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-OVER · STAT-NATIONAL · BOOK-MULTI · TYPE-MIX
- NOTC-MID 17 filings
- WORK-TOP #29
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-OVER 35d
- STAT-NATIONAL 8 states
- BOOK-MULTI 8 agencies
- TYPE-MIX 12C/5L
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest Walmart WARN filings · notice runway
Top 5 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- Bentonville, AR · Layoff · Retail Trade 2,000 workers · filed May 3, 2023 · 0d runway
- Davenport, FL · Layoff · Retail Trade 400 workers · filed Mar 24, 2023 · 70d runway
- Federal Way, WA · Closure · Retail Trade 253 workers · filed Sep 29, 2025 · 32d runway
- Baltimore County, MD · Closure · Retail Trade 213 workers · filed Mar 8, 2024 · 35d runway
- Everett, WA · Closure · Retail Trade 198 workers · filed Mar 23, 2023 · 99d runway
Median forward runway across 17 dated filings: 35 days (9 under 60d · 8 at/above 60d · 4 same-day or retroactive).
What changed - Walmart WARN filings by year
Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .
- 2022 → 2023: WARN workers affected for Walmart rose from 147 in 2022 to 2,693 in 2023; notice count rose from 1 to 6.
- 2023 → 2024: WARN workers affected for Walmart fell from 2,693 in 2023 to 380 in 2024; notice count fell from 6 to 3.
- 2018 → 2019: WARN workers affected for Walmart rose from 95 in 2018 to 261 in 2019; notice count rose from 1 to 3.
- 2019 → 2022: WARN workers affected for Walmart fell from 261 in 2019 to 147 in 2022; notice count fell from 3 to 1.
Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2025.
Where Walmart Falls Among Tracked Employers
7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected
Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. Walmart is in the 1.5k-5k bucket (#29 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- WA
- Primary Industry
- Retail Trade
- First Notice
- Feb 1, 2018
- Latest Notice
- Sep 29, 2025
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Sep 2025.
WARN Notice History
2025
Federal Way, WA · Retail Trade
Effective: Oct 31, 2025
253
workers
Filed Sep 29, 2025
Pleasanton, CA · Retail Trade
Effective: Sep 4, 2025
87
workers
Filed Sep 4, 2025
Hemet, CA · Retail Trade
Effective: Sep 4, 2025
106
workers
Filed Sep 4, 2025
2024
Milwaukee, WI · Retail Trade
Effective: Jul 26, 2024
105
workers
Filed Apr 19, 2024
Baltimore County, MD · Retail Trade
Effective: Apr 12, 2024
213
workers
Filed Mar 8, 2024
Redmond, WA · Retail Trade
Effective: Feb 9, 2024
62
workers
Filed Jan 19, 2024
2023
Jacksonville, FL · Retail Trade
Effective: Jun 26, 2023
12
workers
Filed Aug 4, 2023
Bentonville, AR · Retail Trade
Effective: May 3, 2023
2,000
workers
Filed May 3, 2023
Jacksonville, FL · Retail Trade
Effective: Jul 14, 2023
14
workers
Filed Apr 26, 2023
Davenport, FL · Retail Trade
Effective: Jun 2, 2023
400
workers
Filed Mar 24, 2023
Everett, WA · Retail Trade
Effective: Jun 30, 2023
198
workers
Filed Mar 23, 2023
Jacksonville, FL · Retail Trade
Effective: May 19, 2023
69
workers
Filed Mar 20, 2023
2022
Bellevue, WA · Retail Trade
Effective: Jul 15, 2022
147
workers
Filed Apr 4, 2022
2019
Indianapolis, IN · Retail Trade
Effective: Jul 12, 2019
109
workers
Filed Jun 12, 2019
Vancouver, WA · Retail Trade
Effective: Apr 19, 2019
80
workers
Filed Mar 25, 2019
Show 2 earlier notices (2018-2019)
2019
Virginia Beach, VA · Retail Trade
Effective: May 10, 2019
72
workers
Filed Feb 27, 2019
2018
Rushville, IN · Retail Trade
Effective: Apr 13, 2018
95
workers
Filed Feb 1, 2018
Questions about this Walmart record
What is the largest Walmart WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for Bentonville, AR on May 3, 2023, covering 2,000 workers in Retail Trade.
Where were Walmart's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Federal Way, Pleasanton, and Hemet, among 15 named cities; together they form 12 facility closures and 5 mass-layoff filings sourced from Washington ESD and California EDD and Wisconsin DWD and Maryland DLLR and Florida Commerce and the public WARN archive and Indiana DWD and Virginia Works. States represented in this record: AR, CA, FL, IN, MD, VA, WA, WI.
Where is Walmart's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
Bentonville accounts for 49.7% of Walmart's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 66%.
Does Walmart's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2018 through 2025 across 6 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in Walmart's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway clears the federal 60-day baseline; use the dated filing history to see which location and event produced it. Of 17 filings on record, 1 dated effective before the notice itself and 3 without a published effective date are excluded from that figure.
See also: WA WARN filings · Retail Trade industry WARNs · WARN Act guide · largest WARN employers
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Walmart notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.