Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

Kroger employee here, I come in peace

To be honest, I don’t give a flying fu-k about picking a corpo side. But for those of you who were around under Greg Foran’s leadership, I’m genuinely curious about your take.
He recently brought over former Walmart execs Nate Faust and Mark Ibbotson. Are these guys just corporate bootlickers, or are they actual leaders who know what they're doing? How did they shape the culture, what was it really like working under them, and what kind of bullsh-t or improvements should we expect?

It seems they are already outsourcing our engineering jobs within the next couple of years but I suspect that was in the works before Greg came along. Moral is at all time low and culture is becoming non-existent.


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Post ID: @OP+1m1mshe2t

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Foran immediately made some decisons that made the stores cleaner and better. I agree with whoever said Ibbotson would get fixated on weird stuff that didn't amount to much. Honestly, it was a weird time at the HO when they were there. Lots of yearly reorgs and layoffs. Don't know how much came from them but I don't want to go back.

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Post ID: @344+1m1mshe2t

Any of the leaders at Walmart for the past 7-8 years have destroyed what culture that was left over from the Sam era. I understand that the need for change, but to change just to do it, watch it fail but to continue to look the other way is the new way. Especially the restructure they did around 2020ish.

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Post ID: @2ms+1m1mshe2t

They are both hard-charging and intimidating. Buckle up. But Greg so knowledgeable and hard-working that it can be inspiring

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Post ID: @1d5+1m1mshe2t

Greg is a hatchet man. The last thing he thinks about is great merchandising. He's there to streamline operations which may include distribution, pricing, staffing and innovation. Greg will leave the organization
cleaner and more focused than he found it,
but heads are going to roll,that's how he measures productivity. Ask former Walmart co-mgrs.

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Post ID: @102+1m1mshe2t

Nothing gets better because they all just trade people from one big company to the other until they are all trash.

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Post ID: @rr+1m1mshe2t

@OP Greg is great and will focus on doing what's needed. Mark I is clueless and will focus on crazy, unproductive ideas.

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Post ID: @jt+1m1mshe2t

@da won't happen, they're id--ts

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Post ID: @ee+1m1mshe2t

You can probably expect the Indian consultants to take over all technology areas.

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Post ID: @da+1m1mshe2t

I dont know those 2 leaders mentioned but Greg was viewed as too notch leader. He gained quite of success with his camp IV initiatives and really pushed operations and merchandising to new heights

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