Wal-Mart shutters specialty Latino store in Houston market

The five-year experiment of Wal-Mart’s Supermercado in the Houston suburb of Spring, Texas, is history. The 39,000 square-foot grocery supermarket was Wal-Mart’s first Latino-oriented store in the U.S.

There were two of these large Latino supermarkets in the retailer’s U.S. fleet. The Phoenix location, which also opened in 2009, was shuttered two years ago.

Wal-Mart quietly closed the Texas store last week (Nov. 6) roughly nine months after Sam’s Club shuttered its experimental Mas Club, also a Latino marketplace which was located in the Houston metro area.