Walmart plans to open a store on Lower Greenville, in the old Whole Foods building, just one block from the site of a planned Trader Joe’s. Jeff Siegel mentioned this possibility a few weeks ago in his analysis of Trader Joe’s location pick, and Unfair Park broke the news this morning.

The new Walmart will comprise about 34,000 square feet, some 10,000 square feet smaller than a typical Walmart store. That indicates Walmart could be planning one of its Neighborhood Market stores.

This analysis in Forbes from October offers a picture of Walmart’s smaller format stores.

Canal Clothing, formerly the staple dress and accessory shop at Salons in the Park at Skillman and Northwest Highway, has moved to Hillside Village at Abrams and Mockingbird.

The boutique temporarily is located next to Romano’s Bakery, but they are remodeling a larger space just to the right of Stein Mart, and, perhaps not coincidentally, next to the salons at Hillside.

A little more about the shop: It is independently owned and specializes in “dressing customers to look their best” and “showing their clientele how to stretch their wardrobe through accessorizing.”

Complimentary fashion seminars are held in the store. “These seminars have been well received by garden clubs, professional women’s organizations, and visiting convention groups,” according to the website. “Canal Clothing also will partner with your organization to raise money and donates 10 percent of purchases to the designated charity.”

Interested in learning more about the seminars and fundraisers? Call 214.343.6177.

Five neighborhood PTA groups are offering coupons through Schoola.com, with a goal of raising $2,000 for Lakewood Elementary, Stonewall Jackson, J.L. Long and Woodrow by Feb. 4.

The deals include one dozen cupcakes from Society Bakery for $15. They normally cost $42 for 12.

True Beauty RX is offering a spa package for $79. It normally costs $225.

There are also deals on children’s dance lessons from Studio B, a party at Times Ten Cellars, meal planning from No More To Go and shopping at 2 Shea.

Check out all the deals, which must be purchased by midnight Friday, at lakewoodcommunity.schoola.com.

The Gypsy Wagon on Henderson is trying something new this weekend by hosting an outdoor Swap and Flea on Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Vintage items, home décor and clearance priced winter clothing will all be on sale in their Airstream store-on-wheels, Gertie A-Go-Go. Twenty vendors also will be there swapping and selling their “junk, treasures and funky finds,” according to the event promo.

Two food trucks also will be on handfrom 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. to supply lunch to hungry shoppers. Ruthie’s Rolling Café will serve some of its classic grilled cheese sandwiches, and Trailercakes will sell cupcakes.

Parking will be available behind Jones Walker furniture store or along Miller, Homer and Willis streets. Follow The Gypsy Wagon on Facebook and Twitter to see a preview of this Sunday’s deals, or the other vendors that will be selling merchandise Sunday. Most vendors will take only cash, and there is an ATM at the Henderson Market just in case.

Cerina Wrye and Unarei Saldana opened their shop, the Labyrinth Metaphysical Herbal Apothecary, in 1997. These modern-day witches specialize in psychic readings, reiki healing, herbal remedies and other spiritual elements. In this video, shot in October, the women talk about how they started their business, their life stories and what inspires them. Read more about their shop in our February 2012 story.

Step up to the purple house on Bell Ave, and you’ll catch the scent of incense through Labyrinth Metaphysical Herbal Apothecary’s screen door.

Love spelled backwards is evol. Thus comes the name of Samuel Bistrian’s newest project, a boutique in The Shops at Park Lane. Evol Society brings together artists, craftsmen and merchants with a wide variety of products but one over-arching goal – to make the world a better place.

Bistrian, a Lakewood resident, was featured in Advocate Magazine when he founded Roma Provisions, which provides a free pair of boots to poor children in Bistrian’s native Eastern Europe for every pair they sell.

Now, he’s teamed up with other like-minded entrepreneurs, like Uga Beads (“Support a Ugandan artist, empower a Ugandan child”), Love Nail Tree (“Move people to action and inspire a deep change within them”), Two Clay Hands (“Fantastic shapes inspired by life”) and Project 7 (“Heal the sick, save the earth, house the homeless, feed the hungry, quench the thirsty, teach them well, hope for peace”). They’ll also sell items by WORN, Pearl, Mishky and M Kenya Designs. Bistrian calls it “fashion on a mission.”

Evol Society is hosting a Grand Opening Party this Thursday night from 6-8 pm at the store. They’ll have live music by Larry g(EE), cocktails by Gordon Biersch, and shopping by their inspirational merchants.

Paperbacks Plus recently decided to move for the space on La Vista, where it has been located since 1994, after the building was sold.

Owner John Tilton says the bookshop is moving to the Lochwood area, next to Casa Linda Bakery, at 10801 Garland Road.

The shop also is changing its name to Lucky Dog Books.

The Writer’s Garret, which was housed on the second floor of Paperbacks Plus, is moving too, to a separate space in the same shopping center, at 10809 Garland Road.

Paperbacks Plus first opened in Lakewood in 1976, and it has occupied four retail spaces here, including a short stint on Lower Greenville after a fire in 1993.

The new Lucky Dog Books on Garland already is open, although the move is currently underway, so not everything is on the shelves yet, Tilton says. The Lakewood shop is still open too, sort of. If you pop in and see something that hasn’t been boxed up yet, they will sell it. But they’re not buying anything. All store credit on file and gift certificates will be honored at the new location.

The new store comprises about 6,000 square feet, and it’s all on one floor, so even though it’s technically smaller, it feels like a bigger space, Tilton says. Like the old Paperbacks Plus, Lucky Dog Books is housed in a former insurance office, so like the old shop, it is sectioned into rooms.

Blockbuster this week announced plans to close 150 more stores nationwide, including the one in Casa Linda Shopping Center.

That leaves the Blockbuster store at Greenville and Lovers as the only Blockbuster store in our neighborhood, although there are several automated Blockbuster vending kiosks.

There is also Premiere Video on Mockingbird at Winton. Check out our story about Premiere from the October Advocate.

A Bloomingdale’s Outlet store is expected to open in the Shops at Park Lane this spring. It will join its brethren: Nordstrom Rack and Off Fifth.

Macy’s Inc., which owns Bloomingdale’s, launched the Bloomingdale’s Outlet concept in 2010, and since has opened at least seven stores, typically comprising some 25,000 square feet. (We noticed that if you sign up for their emails, they give you a coupon for $20 off a purchase of $100 or more.)

Bloomingdale’s opened a store in Valley View Center in the ’80s, but it closed in 1990.

Macy’s Inc. announced this week it is closing five Macy’s and four Bloomingdale’s stores, but the company plans to open five Bloomingdale’s Outlet stores this year.