Inside Abandoned Walmart Garfield Heights, OH 

On September 15, 2008, Walmart Stores Inc. announced that it would be closing the Garfield Heights Wal-Mart store permanently because of ongoing safety concerns at the site, including structural problems and potentially explosive methane gas related to the disused landfill beneath the site.

Whoever decided it would be a good idea to put a Walmart on top of a landfill should be fired.

When they started building that wal mart it made the entire area around it smell like garbage, none of us could believe they were going to actually build anything on the land fill but they did, what idiots! Great video.

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This Walmart was built at a very specific time frame, after the company started adopting new signage for the store (such as the enter and exit signs above the doors) but before they changed the logo. The roofs on all Walmarts are tiled down towards the back to help with drainage when it rains, you just never notice it. I wonder who the developer of this is and if they are going to be held financially responsible for this. Going around on Google Maps, there are a couple of buildings that aren't even finished yet that have been abandoned. What a mess, are there any demolition plans? I can't imagine this whole thing just sitting for years.

"No one puts Kevan in the corner" is a spoof of the famous line from Dirty Dancing where Patrick Swayze says "Nobody puts baby in the corner".

I wonder if Walmart and/or other businesses had charges filed against them for building these stores on the landfill. They should've been charged if they weren't. As for the grocery store the only business open, I'd never buy my groceries there. I really liked the video. Geeat job, Wallie.

LOL. I used to live on E98th in GFH and remember when they tore up the land fill to terraform it. Put in vent pipes and then built on it! I was thinking they were insane for doing so because it SMELT continuously bad. Here's the thing: It didn't smell until they messed with it.

I love your continuous documentary on the death of retail. I have been watching so many businesses die out here. Kmart, toys r us. Thousands of jobs gone. It looks like a recession is looming .

*Fantastic Wallie! This explore was so fun! Wish there was more daylight that day we were there to check out more of that plaza.*

I just found your RU-vid page - I am binge watching your videos! Haha I stumbled over the K-Mart one and then found this one ... and want to watch more and more! Very well done and you seem super nice! Seeing these stores abandoned/closed has always broken my heart, I grew up sort of a mall rat chick, so malls/stores have a soft place in my heart. Keep up the great work - thanks so much for sharing - be careful!

Lmao Bathroom selfie!! 😂 The graffiti in there is unbelievable!! Love that you brought Ninja stars lol☺ Awesome...such a fun video as always!! Great job my friend !!

WOW What a cool video! I've been waiting for this one since I've seen this Walmart video from other RU-vidrs.

Amazing, that store does have a strange layout with the wood floors in the back! There's an abandoned Wal-Mart here in Macon, Georgia which closed in 2000 that would be really cool to get inside of but unfortunately it's summertime here now and that means wasps everywhere, plus it is connected to a still (barely) operating shopping center in one of the roughest parts of town...

Thank you so much for this. I got all the way to the end as well. Well done, Wallie.

I work at a walmart and its funny to see they never changed the department numbers. Automotive is still department 10

Its scary to think a business office took over that Walmart, despite the issues on why the Walmart closed anyway..

Interesting video, I heard about this Walmart a few months back and thought it'd be close enough for you to eventually visit. Thanks for the video.

Overhead announcement: Attention Walmart shoppers could the owner of the blue Tahoe license plate number 592HYN please move your vehicle your illegally parked in the fire lane thank you lol

That's pretty cool. I'd absolutely love to visit an abandoned walmart one day. Really awesome you got that chance though.

Finally this came out already! What an an amazing video!

FINALLY getting a chance to watch this!! so cool!! Sorry I couldn't be there with you guys!!

Wow, thank you for making such an extensive video exploring this!

They closed the old Walmart in uniontown pa for the same reason unstable land due to mines underneath. Inside the store had long cracks in the floor.

This is so cool!! Those sky lights are so bright! I’m obsessed with abandoned stuff lol 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

Clean up on aisle 9!

It’s weird seeing an abandoned Wal-Mart, also being an older-style store, thanks for the video!

This is a good video! I really enjoyed watching it.

Imagine turning that place into a skatepark

that place was a true crap hole and you showed exactly how bad it was. glad you could show us all this, cant wait to see the whole shopping center

I'm a big fan of Aces Adventures, I have seen a few of your videos before Wallie, but now I will watch more since seeing you in chat in Anthony stream. I been seeing this WM video pop up for 3 weeks now, I will finally watch it now

Watched ALL THE WAY to the end! Great video Wallie! That was fun and also great skits! They were hilarious. Annnd also ;) ... Congrats on 4k!!!!! Super happy for you. You're going to be the next huge explorer one day I can see it! Cheers

I don't know why but I died laughing at "Attention associates, wash your hands in the non-existent sink right here". Great video, an abandoned Walmart is a hard find!

I love your videos. Keep making them. Thanks.

Great video, can't wait to see the entire shopping center.

Dude this is unbelievable and crazy an abandoned wal mart it looks insane thank you for the cool video

Watched part of this while I was in a Walmart. Cheers.

The cigarette / ash tray smell is just the typical smell you encounter at every wal-mart parking lot.

Wow you spent more time in there than I would have in a Walmart shopping. That shopping center was a huge disaster and a very interesting story.

My school in Florida was built on a landfill and then they moved the landfill crap and put a school where it use to be, funny the landfill crap was moved and then covered up

A shopping center was built in Allen Park , Michigan outside of Detroit on a Ford Motor landfill. Opened 2005. Still going strong. Was done right. Had been clay capped , many feet , pilings were driven to stabilize foundations. Named Fairlane Green or "The Hill"

There is also an abandoned Wal-Mart Super Center in Bedford Ohio

I'm not I'm construction, but isn't it common sense that the garbage would eventually settle, and why would you build something that sells food, on top of old garbage? Cancer causing.

Some jokes were funny in this video. I think you are a good youtuber. Non existent sink. LOL. You are also one of my favorite youtubers

amazing video ive never gotten to see the inside of any abandoned kmart not even during their closeout sale and to me an unlocked door is either an invitation or a trick glad you made it out safe and if there is no trespassing sign i say go on in and even if there was if somebody sees you and tells you to leave you just go great video

Love it. Wallie on the shopping cart patrol.

i discovered these vids a few weeks ago. This is by far my favorite so far. Very creepy and interesting.

A lot of people have beem filming this! Especially GRM Adventures! I do agree with you. I do like that old Walmart Vision sign. I also like how you read all of those weird things writting in graffiti. R.I.P Garfeild Heights Walmart 2006-2008 it was only open 2 years! It has been closed for 10 YEARS!!! It was a great video! Nice Job! Keep the good work up! This also makes me want to go there so bad! But I don't live anywere near Ohio!

I am a personal friend of Richard Wolf. It's awesome that you guys made a video together.

... Or, a Sears on a busy day! Sad, because I have always loved Sears. The story behind this site, is shocking! Thanks!!

Fantastic video love the comedy to love the exploring

In California you can't build anything on a dump site because of earthquake instability. 1/6 of San Francisco was built on a compressed dump-site before they figured out this was not a good thing to do. California used to compress all there dump sites until they figured out that garbage won't break down if you compress the trash.

Wild! I live near Allen Park, MI and they have a huge shopping center on top of a clay landfill that was used by Ford Motor Co. Still functioning and expanding very weIl. haven't seen or smelled any problems. They did a lot of work preparing the site for it's current use, however.

I remember when does Walmart close before I cried for this video I’m so proud of you 🙂

Great video as always

really cool video keep them coming

11:18 How did somebody spray paint "BUTT STUFF" that high on the building??? They must not have had a fear of heights.

Congrats for 4k subs!

What government official was paid off to OK this project? Love canal?

I laugh at the "Ask the Manager" sign. They usually hide in their office in the back. If they would go out to the floor and run a register, the lines would go down a little

I love your videos man!!

Great video Wallie! Abandoned Wallie World...all you bro. always cool. Let me know if you ever get up this way (Detroit/Lansing, etc MI) Loads of great spots yet to be explored that I haven't gotten to yet. Wanna do HUDSONS...bad. But the places are endless up here. Great job!

The new intros awesome Wallie it makes it feel all professional and shit! Jk been following the channel for a long time keep up the good work!

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What an interesting background of an abandoned place.... I want to learn more about this landfill shopping center and who thought it was a good idea in the first place! Time to go on a youtube search.

Dude I'm trying to get caught up on a ton of vids and can't believe i haven't seen alot of these older ones! It might take a while and I got lots of other RU-vidrs to watch!

When you started to describe what Walmart it was and the location I was like oh shit! SunBrightFilms went there to gold you did a vid on it aswell it was nice to see more of it!

That black mold would kill me, lol. Remember that Bon Ton in Washington Crown Center? Haha.

I would love to see the other stores in the complex, thanks.

"Cool video!!!" But very scary and dangerous too. Great video tour though.

Awesome video I think all Walmart will be like that one before to long

I know this walmart! Who's idea was it to build shops above a landfill ?

The phone PBX and FACP are still there... Neat!!!

There are abandoned Walmart’s, often in a small town where they had a regular sized one and then built a super center one and just leaves the old one abandoned.....I’ve seen it happen

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I really like your videos And your channel!!!!

Ever worked in a walmart?? The sales floor can be completely empty but there will still be 130 pallets on the floor in the backroom. The walmart life.

very interesting videos thanks for posting

Nice video dude!

First many thanks for doing this. This video is like your Citizen Kane or Godfather of videos. Love how you find the simpliest things and make them interesting. I would suffocate with all that dead cigarette butt smoke (grew up with a family of smokers, never took up the habit but do like an occassional cigar.) Seems all those Wal*Marts store designs look the same with the same layout and just all that space. That must of set Wal*Mart back a pretty penny to shut that store and go elsewhere. Great Line: Fast Eddie would love to make a fast buck off that place. Isn't Giant Eagle like the Wal*Mart of grocery stores, an overpriced evil company? Sounds like Acme here that took over the A&Ps and Pathmarks and jacked up all the prices. I don't get why people think it's cool to smash toilets and spray graffiti all over. They could use that energy elsewhere. The Wolfs are great video masters too and add their own touch. Smart to take company. I'm just picturing a horror film. Wal*mart builds on top of a toxic waste dump because land was cheap despite people telling them the ground is haunted and scared. Then on Black Friday with shoppers charging in like cattle the monsters below get mad shake the ground and swallow everyone and everything up. Like the whole plaza sinking. Nice to see the Wierdo make an appearance and play with the crazy on the other line of the dial phone. Keep them coming Wallie. Your work and you are AWESOME.

Very rare u find a Walmart abandoned their is one by me in NY lights still on inside closed in 2014 still want to explore inside it through but bolted shut lol good find man

The things you do to show us cool things good job

This is so cool!

Funny to hear mention of the Massillon store. I worked there for around 6 years. You get used to the smell eventually.

55:05 - lol!! I thought dial 911 too, and then you see the sign on the building with an emergency number to dial. Fitting!

I would like to see the unedited one the long version of this Walmart's amended one if you can post that one.

40:49 classic Wallie humor. lol!!

hi i know this video is over two years old but i just saw it august 2020 thanks for sharing it, be careful out there

That is a relief I thought that this abandoned Wal-Mart was closed for another FEMA Camp for the new would order.

Good video!

Let's Get Wallie To 10K Subscribers. He deserves it.

Thanks you saved me a trip ! It is a shame !

Disgruntled customer: I have been standing here at customer service for a while now and I want some damn customer service and where is the manager.....HELLOOOOO!!!! Hmmm guess I'll just have to take my business elsewhere. Lol

you guys should go to another abandoned Walmart in lewisburg pa. It be pretty cool to see. other than that good video!

There's a Walmart in covington GA that closed in the late 2000s, I would explore it but it's connected to actually-open stuff, and also it apparently has either lead paint or asbestos in it.

I remember seeing a video on this, stupid decision on the cities part.

Good video!! Surprising with the settling parking lot pavement on the outside dropping anywhere from 1 to 4 foot in places around the walls, surprisingly that some of the foundation didn’t went under leading to some of the walls collapsing. I’d be more concerned with the green electrical transformer that is mounted of a small piece of foundation at 53:54 ( utility companies call this type of transformer in an enclosed cabinet as an ‘ pad mount transformer ‘ since the pad would be that concrete foundation base)and if that starts sinking in the ground, that might end up disturbing or pulling on the connections in the unit and lead to possible shorting or arcing. Luckily the local utility disconnect the primary circuit to that transformer or otherwise an electrical hazard in the back of the building be waiting to happen.

If that Walmart was still open I would never ever shop at that Walmart I'm glad they shut that Walmart down it needed to be shut down because it's not safe to shop there Nice video sir

Good catch of the NS geometry train.

Just these guys reading graffiti makes my day.