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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- Walmart customers in Nevada will soon starting seeing changes at local stores.

The company is spending $16.3 million to upgrade its Nevada stores with new technologies.

According to a news release, the company says the upgrades will change the way people shop and allow associates to better serve customers.

The company released its plan for Nevada stores:

2 store remodels

Free grocery pickup service coming to 16 stores

Grocery delivery coming to 6 stores

5 Walmart pickup towers going up

15 stores will received automated floor scrubbers

15 stores will receive a new automated delivery truck unloader

Concerns have been raised that the upgrades will take away jobs from current employees.

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We have all that except delivery so far. Nobody’s lost their job.

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This feels like a mixed bag for job security. On the one hand, the pickup and delivery options have to have someone pulling the merchandise off the shelf. The pickup tower's probably a meh, the current CSD in my store (a NHM) barely has one person staffing it anyways. The floor scrubbers and the truck unloader, probably. Although maybe the unloader will mean CAP can actually finish in the woefully short time?

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Same was released in VA today

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