Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

I think Walmart is closing or planning to close in my state because of maybe the coronavirus.. when I went to Walmart yesterday, hand sanitizer, and disinfecting wipes were all gone!!! Maybe Walmart is closing cause people are taking everything, and they are not restocking soon! :,(

Honestly, where I love is growing and Walmart is still the go to store. WHY,is it not profitable? It's really easy, the reps dealing with the public are rude, seem to hate their job, are just pay check collectors. Keep the doors open by better training. Customer Service 101-smile and try to help. Without customers, you don't have a job, duh! Don't put persons who can't speak English directly in charge of a department like DELI and requires basic speaking skills. There is one rep who has been at this store for a few years. His name is Daniel-from what I understand he has been recognized as he should for outstanding customer service. HELLO......Have him teach a basic courtesy class. Please, thank you, come again-simple everyday courtesies are completely overlooked. I can't stand going in this store but I'm stuck with it because I can't drive and must rely on others to get me to the store. It's in Maricopa, AZ (city not county). The town itself has won awards for best city to live in. Well, if the 20yr old doesn't want the job because they think they're too good for it, hire a part time mom, work with her availability and get better service for the same price and a more diverse group of employees. The managers of this store should be fired. FIRED! FIRED! Don't bother complaining or giving a kudos. They're deaf. I was in front of 2 main operations managers who were discussing who was getting laid this weekend. Great, good luck. I'm a mother of 6 and usually have at least 3 of my children with me. Not walking down the aisle conversation. When brought to the attention of the managers and their superior, I was directed to shop online. Thanks, but I still like to get to a store and choose my items by hand. Food for thought, Mr.CEO,CFO,CCO and Basic human relations. Ask people what they like about the location and what they can improve. Apply the improvements and customers will see they have not just buying power but influence on where they spend their hard earned money. Thank you. Mr. Walton would be cringing. His legacy should bring community together. We're all neighbors. I'll give you a cup of sugar if needed, I just ask that you show a bit of respect.

I live in WV, its not that online is taking over, but the newly installed self checkouts that are causing the most problem then the attitude of the managers which reflects on the attitude of the employees. I do not work at Walmart, therefore I should not have to be my own cashier, or if we have to use the self checkouts, we should be given a discount. My children are grown, but the parents with smaller children have the hardest time shopping. At the checkout, the parents are trying to scan their items then a child drops a sippy cup on the weigh pad, the employee has to come over, reset the register its horrible. Then you have the older people that have no idea what they are doing, causes the line to back up people with small amounts of merchandise are getting frustrated... that is why Walmart is losing business..many are going to online, so they can bypass the hassles.

Is the Walmart in Newingtion New Hampshire closing.

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Employees are part of the problem I was in the grocery section of my local Walmart and asked an associate who was filling shelves where the canned beans where she looked at me like I had 3 head's and shrugged her shoulders and said no I pushed the issues all said Bush brand brand bean again a smile and a shrug I found another associate and asked she directed me to the beans I asked about the other associate she told me that they have a few associates that do not speak English part of the New hiring program

Personally I believe the biggest problems with the stores vs internet, was the long period in which so much stock was NOT present! Shelves were empty- result of cost cutting stupid mistake, it forced customers,faced with many other retailers closing stores at the time, to go to Amazon and order what they needed? The head office in, race to emulate Amazon and eliminate “associates labor costs” put massive amounts money into the development of Robots, which we are now seeing the results. Not too mention while, doing inefficient remodels in the stores by people who never worked on the floor!?

The associates,on public assistance and unskilled for professional consideration, many not able to speak English, are having hours cut so much they could qualify as below the poverty line. Ironically being counted by our government as “employed” although their hours had dropped from 36-38 to 20, than 8 for an entire week at a time! You have to be pretty jaded as corporation to cut these people's income in half willie nilly.

The head office has failed miserably in training their management teams in the art of People Motivation vs Hatred for the company and the job! The corporate evangelistic, magazine Walmart World, 99.9% can't even relate to it! Comes across like thier working for a to a totally different company! In 10 years I had two managers tell me I was doing a good job? The other times I was called into the office was someone complained, albeit minor, seemed to be the ONLY time they ever acknowledged myself or any other worker? Oh sure, they would bring us in on our anniversary and “Read” from the evaluation sheet that we were satisfactory, above average or excellent but it seems pretty robotic in nature lacks sincerity. That's why we have lost a lot of really good workers to Amazon.

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Any nevada walmart closing

Walmart will most likely close at least 150 stores and Sam's club will close about 50 within the next 5 months. It all comes down to lack of increase in net profit and the newly hired employees lack of performance. They are trying to energize the employees yet customer satisfaction keeps sliding down and productivity being at an all time low. Walmart just cant survive the new workforce and online competition is taking away sales.

Retail is in a transformation period. All this change people are complaining about is a company trying to figure out how to compete and evolve with the customers new ways of shopping. Brick and Mortar stores will change as well. We will see some low profit stores close to customers but transform into fulfillment centers or hubs that ship/deliver to home. Who knows what happens in the end but it’s definitely an interesting race.
I’ve read several post and comments from people complaining about bad managers that sit in the office and ignore problems. Well folks that’s partially because of the fast growth within the company , people get promoted because they are willing to learn not always because they are ready . Think about your own career with the company . When someone gave you a supervisor spot .. Were you ready , or just willing to try ?! These structure changes are going to flatten this back out and empower the people that do the work anyway. Less managers will help eliminate some of these problems that have been brought up on this site. It will allow the company to move faster and continue to compete with Amazon.

I see a lot of rural stores closing due to population decline and reductions in farming and manufacturing in small towns over the last 20 years. Metro stores in direct competition with each other may be a focus too.

Writting on the wall. Parts of the puzzle keep coming together. Family dollar and dollar general are closing in to. https://www.businessinsider.com/dollar-general-family-dollar-beat-walmart-low-income-shoppers-2019-10

Why does it look like Sam’s club in Gilbert AZ is going to close soon. A lot of empty spaces and Clarence Items and running out of stuff. My opinion if they do close the employees would be the last to know until it happens.

Nov 1 Greg Foran danced aside for John (closed sam stores) Furner. So the probability of walmart store closing just took a leap forward.

Thank you for all that insight. We in the stores call it cannabilization. 1 in 3 closing? Not in my region....51. Sales are up at least single digits at every store in my metro area-some double digits. My guess is 1 in 10 over the next 3 years which will still be a bad thing for us career folk.

I don't see Walmart losing a third of their stores unless Amazon tries and succeeds in opening their own stores. Which is of course the next step for Amazon.

the previous post says there is the probablity that that Amazon will over take Walmart as the biggest retailer in 2 years 2022. To do that Walmart will lose sales to Amazon. Store closings will be sooner than later. I agree 1/3 of the stores closing over 3 years.

Close 'em all!

MAKE MY DAY!!!!!

During the first decade of the 21st century, Walmart went ridiculously crazy and was throwing up new stores, I think on the average of three per week. Those were their peek years when it seemed they would never even slow down, let alone fail. Shoppers were flocking those stores, literally, all day long. And the company was getting into everything: They were doing used car sales, dabbles in real estate, they tried getting into banking (THAT failed miserably) .... at one point they were even selling coffins and cremation urns on line! Like ancient Rome, they were set on conquering the world.

And now all that gluttony has caught up with them. It's the classic cycle of greed. Make a few bucks, radically over spend to get more, and voila—end up with mountains of debt and having to sell off properties and assets at fire sale prices.
Walmart's not going out of business, but the model we've seen in our lives will be g r e a t l y different in the coming months and years. My prediction is their store numbers will be reduced by at least a third within the next three years.

The one on va beach Blvd been closed

Why are they closing?

2020 detailed information is still pending, do not think anyone has access to that - I am sharing information on Walmart stores that closed this year:

• AZ – 6085 West Chandler Blvd., Chandler, Arizona
• AZ – 3900 West Ina Road, Tucson, Arizona
• CA – 11729 Imperial Highway, Norwalk, CA
• IN – 1600 Saratoga Ave., San Jose, California
• KS – 8010 East 38th St., Indianapolis, Indiana
• LA – 712 North Western Ave., Liberal, Kansas
• LA – 1229 NE Evangeline Trwy., Lafayette, Louisiana
• MA – 1775 Washington Street, Hanover, MA
• MN – 1450 University Ave. W., Saint Paul, MN
• NH – 17 Colby Court, Bedford, New Hampshire
• PA – 53 West Germantown Pike, Norristown, PA
• SC – 3603 Broad River Road, Columbia, South Carolina
• TN – 1757 West Andrew Johnson Hwy., Morristown, Tennessee
• TN – 2501 University Commons Way, Knoxville, Tennessee
• TX – 13742 North Eldridge Parkway, Cypress, TX
• TX – 3155 West Wheatland Road, Dallas, Texas
• VA – 7000 Iron Bridge Road, North Chesterfield, Virginia
• VA – 1959 Neeley Road, Big Stone Gap, Virginia
• VA – 2864 Virginia Beach Blvd., Virginia Beach, Virginia
• WA – 7809 North-East Vancouver Plaza Dr., Vancouver, Washington
• Canada – 293 Bay Street, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
• Canada – 101 Boulevard Cardinal Leger, Pincourt, Quebec

I am sure there people who have more detailed information on the size of the stores closed, etc.