Walmart debuts training center in Orland Hills

The Orland Hills Walmart Divisional Training Academy is the first of six that will open throughout the United States. Image courtesy of Serafin & Associates, Inc.

As Walmart-colored blue and yellow balloons cascaded down onto their like-colored caps and gowns, the retailer on Tuesday graduated the inaugural class at its newest employee training facility in Orland Hills.

It’s Walmart’s fourth such center in Illinois and 169th nationwide, with Walmart planning to have 200 open by year’s end.

Attached to the company’s Orland Hills store, the training academy will serve more than two-dozen stores in the south and southwest suburbs and northwest Indiana, according to the company…Please click here for Mike Nolan’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown. A related story is in the Patch.