North Belt Wal-Mart closed due to power failure

Many shoppers were asked to leave the North Belt Wal-Mart on Sunday morning after a power failure forced the stories to close.

At approximately 11 a.m., store employees began covering perishable items in the meat and dairy section and blocking access to coolers. Minutes later, employees informed customers that all checkout stations were not functioning and requested that customers simply leave their carts and begin leaving the store. The employees said the store was closing.

The closure created a bottleneck of customers exiting the north entrance; the south doors were inoperable because the power failure.

There's no word yet on when the store began experiencing power issues, though many of the store's lights were off and the anti-theft scanners at the entrances were beeping and lights flashing.

The closure also created a minor traffic jam at the store's entrances and at the stop light at the corner of the Belt Highway and Cook Road.

No word yet on the cause of the outage or whether it affected other stores in the area. KCP&L has not responded to calls, but the company's outage map shows no power outage in St. Joseph. Check back with newspressnow.com for details.

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