Here is a idea!!!! Have the Health and Wellness departments (optical, pharmacy ) run by the store manger. Eliminate the Health & Wellness Vp Reginald and Market managers. That would save the company millions !!!!!!
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Education is a starting point, not an end all. One's level of education may be more or less critical depending the qualifications and skills required to be successful in a position. The US economy is clearly evolving to one focused on technology which implies that the skills needed will evolve as well.
Education also a means of enforcing a minimum level of competency within organization as well as to assess cultural fit. Some companies actually require applicants to take assesments of critical reasoning and thinking skills as a part of the screening process. These assements cover math, verbal, personality, and leadership style. Walmart actually does this for some opportunities, as I have experienced it myself.
It comes down to some basic questions:
-Can you do the job?
-Will you do the job?
-Do you want to do the job?
-Are you a cultural fit?
You may need a college degree to get hired. But you don't actually need the knowledge gained in college to do this job. Those are two different things.
A college degree is just a piece of paper that says there's a good chance you can think and reason. Employers use it as a proxy for having good managers who can determine this for themselves from an interview and references.
It is not 1962, it is 2017. If you believe that not being college educated is irrelevant in today's job market, try finding an job at an equivalent level and compensation at another firm other than WMT without a college degree and see what happens. By the way, WMT's founder and his spouse were college educated. Additionally, WMT is transitioning to an Omni Channel/ecommerce model, which requires a different set of technical skills and knowledge, although the company will still have a precence in B&M.
This is not to say that being college educated is the end all. Being a continuous learner and building out a set of skills to maximize employability, not employment is what is important. Only a customer can guarantee employment.
You assume incorrectly. The Pharmacy manager is in charge of the pharmacists and in some stores actually watched over the entire market before Market Managers were appointed.
I'm assuming you must not be aware of the laws, regulations, and compliance demands that exist within a simple pharmacy operation. In some states, your suggestion would require store managers to be licensed pharmacists to have the oversight of the pharmacy.
College education has nothing to do with running a store, and If that is what you believe then you are in the wrong business. Store managers run a business, healthcare professionals may own college degrees but that does NOT mean they can run a business, filling scripts perhaps, or taking care of customers. Jump off that high horse you are on, and wake up. Most college degrees in the home office can not even set a modular, and yet are trying to create them. I would put some of these Store Managers and folks that built this company against your college educated folks any day.. Oh Wait! that is not necessary they built this company on hard work, dedication, and ethics and it is still going strong. Did not take a college degree back in 62 to put WM on the map, nor did it take one to build, and grow a company.