Wal-Mart will close
LR store next month
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will close the Neighborhood Market at 2510 Cantrell Road in Little Rock on Nov. 2.
Anne Hatfield, a spokesman for the Bentonville-based retailer, said the closing is isolated and comes as part of Wal-Mart's periodic standard review of its store portfolio.
"The decision to close the Cantrell Road Neighborhood Market is not an easy one, and is in no way, a reflection of the hard work and customer service provided by the leadership and associates at the store," Hatfield said in a statement.
The closing will affect about 100 employees, but Hatfield said they'll have opportunities to transfer to nearby stores.
The store's pharmacy will remain open until Nov. 2 as well, and customers will have the opportunity to transfer their prescriptions elsewhere. Prescriptions that haven't been transferred will automatically move to the Wal-Mart Supercenter at 2700 S. Shackleford Road.
-- Robbie Neiswanger
USA Truck to offer driver scholarships
USA Truck will give scholarships to 15 students who enroll in the commercial driver's license training program run by the University of Arkansas Global Campus at Rogers, Springdale's Northwest Technical Institute and Malvern's Mid-America Truck Driving School.
A $4,250 enrollment fee, which the USA Truck scholarships will cover, gives students who want to become truck drivers access to in-class and behind-the-wheel training throughout the five-week program.
To be eligible for a commercial driver's license and the scholarship, according to a news release, participants must be at least 21 years old; have fewer than two moving violations and collisions in the past three years; have no convictions of driving under the influence or driving while intoxicated in the past seven years; and be able to pass a drug test.
More information is available at training.uark.edu.
-- Dalton LaFerney
Deltic Timber surge
helps to raise index
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, rose 0.05 to 368.66 Friday.
Twelve stocks declined, five advanced and one was unchanged.
Deltic Timber rose 3.1 percent on double its average volume.
Total volume for the index on Friday was 21.4 million shares. The average daily volume for the week was 27.3 million shares.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
Business on 10/07/2017