Wal-Mart has opened its second experimental supercenter in Aurora, CO. The new store is designed in a more environmentally friendly manner.
More than 500 tons of Denver Stapleton Airport's runway, crushed up and recycled, has been used in the store's foundation. The used vegetable oil from the store's Deli and used motor oil from the store's Tire and Lube Express will be burned to help heat the store.
This new supercenter has brought 300 new jobs to the Denver area, and it will offer a full line of groceries, bakery goods, deli foods, meat and dairy products, fresh produce, a Tire Lube and Express and a vision center just to name a few, and it will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. "Our associates are excited to be able to serve our Denver neighbors and use this unique store to show how our company is working towards a more energy efficient building," says Charlie Harris, Wal-Mart store manager.
Wal-Mart noted that it is calling the new store "The World's Largest Recycling Project" in Colorado. "
Don Moseley, Wal-Mart’s director of experimental stores, says, “We worked with a local company, Recycled Materials Company, to recycle 518 tons of material and concrete from the old Stapleton runways to build the foundation for our Aurora supercenter."