Walmart Neighborhood Market set for Justin Crossing development in Texas

A new Walmart Neighborhood Market in Justin Crossing would bring more than groceries to Justin, Texas. It would add pharmacy access, create a smaller-format store option on FM 156, and likely set off a hiring push for jobs that go beyond cashiers and shelf stockers.

The store is planned for the Justin Crossing development near John Wiley Road and FM 156, in a corridor the city has described as a place to provide needed services and promote walkability. Earlier city materials described the project as mixed-use, with retail, medical office space and restaurants, and one sites-and-buildings summary listed a 4.184-acre pre-leasing lot with a 137,000-square-foot building and 197 parking spaces. The Neighborhood Market itself is expected to be about 45,000 square feet.

For Walmart workers, that size points to a different staffing mix than a supercenter. A Neighborhood Market with a pharmacy typically needs pharmacy support, department coverage, maintenance and back-of-house roles in addition to front-end and stocking teams. For associates already working in nearby stores, it also creates another place to compete for transfers, especially if they want a smaller-format operation with a pharmacy counter and heavier grocery traffic than a general merch site.

The pharmacy piece matters as much as the jobs. Walmart said in January 2025 that same-day pharmacy delivery was available in 49 states, and the company has continued to push pharmacy as part of its convenience strategy. A new pharmacy in Justin would give nearby residents and employees a closer option for prescriptions, refills and quick errands, especially for workers trying to handle a shift, pickup, and a pharmacy stop in one trip.

The opening fits Walmart’s broader store strategy. In January 2024, the company said it planned to build or convert more than 150 stores over five years, and in May 2024 it said some newly opened Neighborhood Markets were 57,000 square feet, about 17,000 square feet larger than the average Neighborhood Market. Walmart says it operates more than 10,500 stores and clubs and employs about 1.6 million associates in the U.S.

Justin’s growth gives the project added weight. Denton County has averaged 5% annual growth since 2015, and Justin’s population estimate for 2026 was 7,047, up from 4,497 in the 2020 census. The city’s Old Town Plan says a corridor plan for FM 156 is meant to guide development for the next 20 years, while officials have framed commercial growth as a way to strengthen the city’s tax base and reduce reliance on residential property taxes. For Walmart, the move adds another neighborhood-format store in one of North Texas’s fastest-growing corridors, with pharmacy access and a new set of jobs attached.