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10 • Walmart Shareholders • 6.2.2019 Nashville Almost 40 18 destinations. ( Sept. 2019 ) Philadelphia ( Dec. 2019 ) Miami Almost 40 flights a day to 18 destinations. Denver Las Vegas Los Angeles Minneapolis Chicago Dallas Houston Cincinnati Atlanta Charlotte Orlando/Sanford, San Francisco UNITED AMERICAN UNITED AMERICAN UNITED DELTA DELTA DELTA AMERICAN UNITED AMERICAN ALLEGIANT (SEASONAL) ALLEGIANT Denver Las Vegas Los Angeles Minneapolis Chicago Dallas Houston Cincinnati Atlanta San Francisco UNITED AMERICAN UNITED AMERICAN UNITED DELTA UNITED AMERICAN ALLEGIANT (SEASONAL) ALLEGIANT NORTHWEST ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF REPORT Walmart celebrated the opening in early March of its new fashion distribution center in Bentonville with nearly as much hoopla and enthusiasm as the retailer's shareholders meetings. Many of the nearly 600 employees who work at the mammoth facility, dubbed DC 7842, turned out for the festivities, along with some of Walmart's top brass and Bentonville Mayor Stephanie Orman. At the beginning and end of the ribbon cutting ceremony, they led attendees in a rousing Walmart cheer. The new warehouse at 5800 S.W. Region- al Airport Blvd. represents the culmination of 18 months of work to merge an apparel dis- tribution center in Bentonville and a footwear warehouse in Fort Smith. Workers from both former locations now operate the shiny $170 million facility loaded with some of the lat- est equipment in supply chain technology. The building is the first fashion distri- bution center Walmart has opened in more than 20 years, officials said. It will serve re- gional distribution centers in 15 states and, eventually, 1,000 stores. DC 7842 exemplifies the work Walmart is doing to better serve customers through innovation and process improvements, said Greg Smith, executive vice president of the supply chain division of Walmart U.S. "We know the retailer that has the best supply chain is going to win," Smith said. "And that retailer will be Walmart." Steve Bratspies, chief merchandising of- ficer for Walmart U.S., called the nearly 1.3 million-square-foot warehouse an "ecosys- tem" and "a direct investment in our supply Walmart touts new fashion hub Distribution center on 120 acres, has the latest bells, whistles Wes Waddell, Walmart distribution center 7842 general manager, leads a Walmart cheer Tuesday, March 5, 2019, during a grand opening for Walmart distribution center 7842 in Bentonville. NWA Democrat-Gazette/BEN GOFF @NWABENGOFF See FASHION, Page 12