Our 3rd Shift Frozen,Dairy and Fresh Associates jobs ended on July 14th. There were forced to go to 4am -1pm. They also lost money as well. I'm hearing that the remaining 3rd accociates will also be forced to take the 4am -1pm or 2pm-10pm shifts also. Has anyone's store moved the remaining 3rd shift Associates? I'm hearing only maintenance associates will remain and only 400 hours a week will be assigned to 3rd shift.
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I am at a div 1 store in California. In my store we are also transitioning overnight stockers into cap 1 and 2. We used to have 60+ overnight stockers and we are down to 40ish. Only maintenance will be overnight. Our Dpt Mngrs were told months ago that depts will combine and we are losing some dpt mngr positions. It has not happened yet. We are also getting robots later this year so I'm thinking after we get those they will start combining dpts. Different things happen in different stores so this may happen in your store, or it may not. One thing is for sure....with Walmart you have to always be prepared for changes happening.
I think a next big step we'll see is stores going back to division 1 status----closing at 9. Kroger has done that in many of their failing metro markets.
Honestly, all things factored in, night shift customers tend to be of the vice / para legal demographic, itself a category more costly than profitablel. Mostly the only retailers you see open all night these days are in rough areas that cater to that action. Which are very few.
If this happens who will help customers in 24 hour stores? We would have to keep O/N Cashiers and CSMs. The hours are there for CAP 1 and 2 and Fresh teams I doubt people would be losing their jobs.
I find it hard to believe you would know all this info and other stores in the dark about it. Usually home office lay offs like this happen all at once. At our store only o/n fresh has been eliminated so far, and they just moved them to o/n stockers. It could happen as you say, but how come your the only store doing this so far?
The store I was in said by September 1.
UazquWT-gio Are you a Division One Store or Super Center?
Can anyone confirm a timeline? Before holidays I’m guessing. Also was this in a conference call recently or in any email/meeting. I mean they might as well rip off the band aid and do it sooner rather than later.
Yes this is coming to all stores soon. Our 3rd shift associates have all been told (excluding maintenance) they will be working 4am to 1pm or 2pm 11pm. When we lose an overnight stocker, they are not replaced. There will only be 1 ASM overnight instead of 2. Only 1 support mngr instead of 2 and only maintenance associates. We have 8 maintenance right now. We are getting remodeled in Aug and after that is complete, we will only have 5 or 6 overnight maintenance associates. They are all scrambling to find positions. We are also getting the robots. Don't let them fool you into thinking those robots are not replacing DM's. Depts are going to get combined and at least 5 DM jobs are being lost. Our jewlery dpt mngr is going on maternity leave until October. She was told her job is getting eliminated so when she comes back she will have to find another position. Shoes, jewlery, and lingerie are combining and since she's going to be gone, they are giving the position to the lingerie DM. Changes are coming so brace yourselves people. Its gonna be a bumpy ride.
If Walmart had Unions they wouldn’t be able to do half the stuff they pull with associates.
No, not all unions are good in some cases.
Walmart needs them now than ever before!
Years ago I would have disagreed.
That further means that, of the some 160,000,000 Americans employed, approx. 384,000 are now looking for jobs.
Well played, Sh!tmart.
My God. That's only 10 full time night shift workers from what has always been an average of 50.
The ave. super center has/had 150 hourlies----3rd shift is 1/3 of that----that means nights has lost 80% of its crew.
Walmart has for decades been America's #1 private sector employer. This is terrible.