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Attention Walmart shoppers! Come 8 a.m., Jan. 31, you will have another new store to in which to practice your retail options!
"...The new store is scheduled to open its doors at 8 a.m. featuring a typical mix of merchandise found in other Hawai'i Wal-Marts, but with a few embellishments that make the Manana store somewhat distinctive.
On first impression, some local shoppers may notice that the 147,979-square-foot store has the architectural flavor of a sugar mill.
A faux water tower tops the store's garden center, and parts of the new building's facade were designed to resemble an old mill warehouse, with exposed steel beams and some walls colored a shade approximating the stain of red dirt from plantation fields.
Store signs have yet to be installed, which likely will leave no mistake that the mill-style warehouse is a Wal-Mart. The parking lot, of course, is trademark Wal-Mart: big, with 802 stalls. And the outlet will be open 24 hours like the other Wal-Mart stores on O'ahu.
Inside, the Manana Wal-Mart is the first in Hawai'i filled with skylights to allow electric lighting to be dimmed or shut off on bright days. Familiar features include a McDonald's, pharmacy, American Savings Bank, photo lab, portrait studio and vision center.
About 600 people have been hired from 2,800 applicants, according to the company. Roughly 70 percent, or around 400, have full-time jobs. The company is still seeking about 30 more part-time employees, according to store manager Boyd Schneider, who started with Wal-Mart in Minnesota and has been a store manager in Lihu'e and Hilo...."
Of course, it is rather interesting that the mall in which this particular WM is opening is called "Manana", which in Spanish means "tomorrow".
Does that mean that all future WMs will have faux waterfalls and water towers?
Miulang
"...The new store is scheduled to open its doors at 8 a.m. featuring a typical mix of merchandise found in other Hawai'i Wal-Marts, but with a few embellishments that make the Manana store somewhat distinctive.
On first impression, some local shoppers may notice that the 147,979-square-foot store has the architectural flavor of a sugar mill.
A faux water tower tops the store's garden center, and parts of the new building's facade were designed to resemble an old mill warehouse, with exposed steel beams and some walls colored a shade approximating the stain of red dirt from plantation fields.
Store signs have yet to be installed, which likely will leave no mistake that the mill-style warehouse is a Wal-Mart. The parking lot, of course, is trademark Wal-Mart: big, with 802 stalls. And the outlet will be open 24 hours like the other Wal-Mart stores on O'ahu.
Inside, the Manana Wal-Mart is the first in Hawai'i filled with skylights to allow electric lighting to be dimmed or shut off on bright days. Familiar features include a McDonald's, pharmacy, American Savings Bank, photo lab, portrait studio and vision center.
About 600 people have been hired from 2,800 applicants, according to the company. Roughly 70 percent, or around 400, have full-time jobs. The company is still seeking about 30 more part-time employees, according to store manager Boyd Schneider, who started with Wal-Mart in Minnesota and has been a store manager in Lihu'e and Hilo...."
Of course, it is rather interesting that the mall in which this particular WM is opening is called "Manana", which in Spanish means "tomorrow".
Does that mean that all future WMs will have faux waterfalls and water towers?Miulang
It's pronounced Ma-na-na(like ba-na-na). I guess its pretty close to the spanish spelling except without the little ~ lines over the 'n' to pronounce it 'man-yana'. I went to Manana elementary and my grandma from Japan used to always call it Banana school. 
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