Halifax Walmart death: Store will not reopen for ‘weeks’ until remodelling done

A Halifax Walmart store wherever a 19-year-old worker was recovered dormant successful a walk-in oven past period volition not reopen for “several weeks” arsenic renovations continue.

Gursimran Kaur was recovered dormant successful the Mumford Road store’s bakery section connected Oct. 19.

After a month-long investigation, Halifax Regional Police said past week that they had determined her decease was not suspicious and determination was “no grounds of foul play.”

The Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration has assumed the pb successful the ongoing workplace investigation.

In a connection to Global News Monday, a Walmart spokesperson said the store volition stay closed portion renovations instrumentality place. The remodelling enactment was already underway earlier Kaur’s death.

“We look guardant to welcoming our customers backmost to a remodeled store successful the coming weeks,” spokesperson Amanda Moss wrote.

“In the interim, we person resumed serving our pharmacy patients done curbside pharmacy services.”