Walmart Is Creating Permanent Daily Sensory-Friendly Hours

The changes include setting in-store TV walls to a static image, turning off the radio, and lowering the store lights.

Walmart is making changes to create a calmer shopping experience.

The retailer is adding sensory-friendly hours to all of its stores nationwide. Starting on Friday, sensory-friendly hours will be implemented everyday from 8am-10am.

The changes include setting in-store TV walls to a static image, turning off the radio, and lowering the store lights.

Walmart said it learned during a pilot test for the back-to-school shopping period that these efforts are especially beneficial to neurodiverse individuals including both customers and employees with sensory disabilities.

The changes are expected to be permanent and will only happen at Walmart locations and not at its Sam’s Club warehouse locations.