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Wall mart to cut 11,000 Jobs

I thought walmart made, billions upon billions of dollars annually last year. Why are they cutting these jobs then?

Wal-Mart has started to use a lot more automation (e.g. self-checkouts, RFID chips), so they no longer need as many employees per store as they once did.
 
Wal-Mart cuts about 11,200 Sam's Club staffers - Yahoo! News

I thought walmart made, billions upon billions of dollars annually last year. Why are they cutting these jobs then? I guess all that money went to Scott lee CEO who made $29.7 million in his earnings.

It's not a cost cutting move:

"...About 10,000 demonstration employees, most part-time, will lose their jobs in the next 30 days after marketing company Shopper Events LLC takes over sampling, Sam’s Club Chief Executive Officer Brian Cornell said today in an interview. The company also is cutting about 1,200 membership recruiting jobs, or about two in each of the club’s U.S. stores.

Hiring a third party is part of an effort to improve demonstrations and lure customers from rival clubs, Cornell, 50, said. Sam’s, which trails Costco Wholesale Corp. in sales, will use savings from labor costs to improve the sampling of food, beverages, health items and electronics, according to the CEO.

“This was not a cost-cutting move,” he said. “The steps we are taking are about differentiation and jumping ahead.”

Walmart to Cut 11,200 Sam?s Club Jobs, Cornell Says (Update2) - Bloomberg.com
 
It's not a cost cutting move:

"...About 10,000 demonstration employees, most part-time, will lose their jobs in the next 30 days after marketing company Shopper Events LLC takes over sampling, Sam’s Club Chief Executive Officer Brian Cornell said today in an interview. The company also is cutting about 1,200 membership recruiting jobs, or about two in each of the club’s U.S. stores.

Hiring a third party is part of an effort to improve demonstrations and lure customers from rival clubs, Cornell, 50, said. Sam’s, which trails Costco Wholesale Corp. in sales, will use savings from labor costs to improve the sampling of food, beverages, health items and electronics, according to the CEO.

“This was not a cost-cutting move,” he said. “The steps we are taking are about differentiation and jumping ahead.”

Walmart to Cut 11,200 Sam?s Club Jobs, Cornell Says (Update2) - Bloomberg.com


So why don't they just keep the jobs? Because it would be "unnecessary" costs?
Apparently you can only train a Human for one purpose at the many, many fine Walmart and Sams Club locations.
 
Why can't they keep the jobs, if this was not a cut job? Trust me, this is a cut job, and nothing more than that.

Wal-Mart has started to use a lot more automation (e.g. self-checkouts, RFID chips), so they no longer need as many employees per store as they once did.

A lot of stores have that, and still needs workers to stack things ectt.
 
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Why can't they keep the jobs, if this was not a cut jobs? The reason, is it would hit them in the wallet try to provide health care to everyone.

I think this is right. It shifts the burden to nobody since most people that work for these marketing companies like Mosiac and Champions are strictly limited to part time.
 
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So why don't they just keep the jobs? Because it would be "unnecessary" costs?
Apparently you can only train a Human for one purpose at the many, many fine Walmart and Sams Club locations.

....so, don't work for a sam's club store. If you read the article you would understand this is a move to improve their ability to sell merchandise. That's what this company is suppose to do, sell merchandise.
 
I think is right. It shifts the burden to nobody since most people that work for these marketing companies like Mosiac and Champions are strictly limited to part time.

Yes, when I heard this that was my first thought. Since, it would put a dent in their profits.
 
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I think this is right. It shifts the burden to nobody since most people that work for these marketing companies like Mosiac and Champions are strictly limited to part time.

Isn't that what most of wal mart's employees are?
 
....so, don't work for a sam's club store. If you read the article you would understand this is a move to improve their ability to sell merchandise. That's what this company is suppose to do, sell merchandise.

How is that not in tune with what I originally responded with.
They are trying to increase the bottom-line! That's their goal.
 
Come on Silly,

Why would a CEO take money from a CEO. Besides, we all know that the CEOs of the top corporations are paid the most because otherwise there would be morons running the company.

Tell, that to the banks! :2razz:
 
So why don't they just keep the jobs? Because it would be "unnecessary" costs?
Apparently you can only train a Human for one purpose at the many, many fine Walmart and Sams Club locations.

In this case, most of the jobs are just shifting to another company. It happens around where I work all the time. So who cares? Only the people that don't like Walmart because they are not unionized and now are spinning this announcement to make Walmart look like the bad-guy.

"Shopper Events, based in Rogers, Arkansas, next to Bentonville, plans to hire about the same number of workers that Sam’s Club is firing, Cornell said in the memo. Employees can apply for Shopper Events jobs, he said.

Shopper Events already handles food sampling and demonstrations of cosmetics, lawn equipment and other products inside Walmart’s U.S. stores, Brian Pear, vice president and general manager, said today in a telephone interview. The company will seek to improve Sam’s Club’s demo stations, signs and uniforms, according to the memo to employees."
 
I love Walmart. I usually shop there though when the crowds aren't around, say, after midnight, in my pajamas. No one seems to care.
 
So why don't they just keep the jobs? Because it would be "unnecessary" costs?
Apparently you can only train a Human for one purpose at the many, many fine Walmart and Sams Club locations.


So, you truly think Walmart should outsource the instore demonstations to a company that specializes in such, and keep their own demonstrators to do... what exacty?

They won't be demoing anymore - Should they just be kept and allow them to stand around and pantomime giving out samples?

Or are you suggesting they be kept around and take hours from the other cashiers?
 
So why don't they just keep the jobs? Because it would be "unnecessary" costs?
Apparently you can only train a Human for one purpose at the many, many fine Walmart and Sams Club locations.
Why don't you become CEO and then you can make the decision? ;)
 
Usually, when a large organization outsources a type of work it used to do in house, most of the people who did it in-house get hired by the outsource company. A lot of the time, they don't even switch desks.
 
Come on Silly,

Why would a CEO take money from a CEO. Besides, we all know that the CEOs of the top corporations are paid the most because otherwise there would be morons running the company.

Obama is the current CEO of General Motors.
 
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