Well of course they will layoff in 2018 that is and has been their standard since 2006. Bottom line, they have made some extraordinary bad decisions in the Marketing and e-commerce side of the business. When your business model is to buy Jet.com for... — read more 

The HO has been and will be cutting HO headcount to reduce SG cutting more HO jobs, cutting associate hours, increasing automation, reducing store headcount, or all of the above?

Bonus Amount Schedule: Full and part-time hourly associates only. 0-2 years: $0 if pay increased, $200 if no pay increase 2-4 years: $250 5-9 years: $300 10-14 years: $400 15-19 years: $750 20+ years: $1000 Salaried as well as full and part-time... — read more 

They don’t want technical support in Bentonville, we know those jobs are going to India.

Walmart prunes our headcount. Why would it be any different in 2018? Thoughts please.

Walmart is not only closing Sam's Clubs, Walmart stores are also being affected. 134 people in Georga and Utah will be laid off once the time designated by WARN notice expires. Walmart seems to be on a roll today, I recon... — read more 

Saw this on their page here on layoffs dot com - anyhow, this is massive www.thelayoff.com/t/RbVA9WG Also, direct link @RbVA9WG Also, media coverage: https://www.thelayoff.com/t/RbDf7Qe

https://www.tmj4.com/news/national/several-sams-club-stores-throughout-the-country-reportedly-permanently-close-without-notice Not looking good! Again the media knows before the people.

https://www.thelayoff.com/sams-club

Instead of eliminating positions and laying off those in those positions, offer buyouts to people to leave voluntarily and then allow those in RIF targeted roles to apply for the now vacant roles. It won’t entirely eliminate layoffs but there would... — read more 

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/01/09/between-walmart-and-kroger-500-stores-are-about-to-ditch-cashiers.html

Unlike some retailers, store closures will be a marker of strength for Walmart, according to former Walmart.com CEO Carter Cast. "I think there are store closures ahead of Walmart that are going to be good for the company and good for shareholders,"... — read more 

Up again today. Up 49% this year. Thank you to all the wonderful associates that have helped make this happen. We have broke $100/Share. If it wasn’t for all of you this wouldn’t be possible.

About 100 new hires came into SWDC for on-boarding this morning.

Walmart ISD is in bed with companies like Infosys, Cognizant and Wipro for the sole purpose of bringing in lower cost labor to undercut American workers. You don't have to read very far into these stories to see what's going on. Note the details of... — read more 

The CEO of Walmart, Doug McMillon, announced earlier this month that they will be closing the doors at half their stores as of February 2018. The discount retail chain has been going down hill due to much competition and not being able to purchase... — read more 

Funny, Amazon dominated 89 % online sales this season WMT ecommerce “distant second” 4.4% https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-05/amazon-maintains-holiday-dominance-despite-stepped-up-pressure

Anyone hear of their exec getting a buyout? My VP just accepted a huge buyout a few weeks ago.

The former Walmart.com CEO who is giving store closures the thumbs up in the article link below was with Walmart from 2000-2007... That's pretty funny since dot com at that point was a joke. Where do they find these people, and how much are they paid... — read more 

Saw a similar thread on Sears, wanted to start one for us as well. Will reply to this message and post some links.

GBS....brace yourselves.

75 are affected. After just a few years of operation, one of Roanoke’s Walmart Neighborhood Markets is closing this month, company officials confirmed Wednesday... — read more 

My brother in law works for AMD out in Cali. He recently was in Bangalore and told me Walmart is advertising and heavily recruiting for what he called "all IT skills", especially web design, support, network and database. Has anyone heard about that?

Watch for it! Stores closing and layoffs.

I’ve noticed for several months that the quality has slipped at the stores in NWA. A LOT of outs, over Christmas about half the things I looked at didn’t have prices, and the prices don’t seem good at all. And they’ve stopped carrying some things I... — read more 

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/01/02/amazon-will-buy-target-in-2018-influential-tech-analyst-gene-munster-predicts.html Paste copy to a search engine

Lots of speculation that Walmart is in talks to purchase Humana, anyone hear this as well?

I was convinced my store would be closing sooner rather than later with our lackluster sales numbers, but we were just notified that there's a significant store remodel planned. Not sure what to think right now. Should I be hopeful that they are... — read more 

Amazon may make a bigger move into physical stores this year, according to one analyst. Loup Ventures' Gene Munster is predicting the internet e-commerce company will buy Target in 2018.

Anyone have info. on HO layoffs in January? Ive heard in the thousands of people plus stores closing.

What is Wal-Mart going to do with all the money from the corporate tax reduction?

Anybody here worked in one of the Walmart stores that have closed? I'm wondering how employees find out the store will be closing? Are we told ahead a few weeks or only a few days? I'm worried that my store will be closing soon due to dropping sales... — read more 

More victims of online at Walmart. Hundreds of jobs are being eliminated to invest more in online. The layoffs span the company‘s international, technology and Sam‘s Club divisions. They follow Wal-Mart‘s decision to eliminate some 1,000 corporate... — read more 

The media is reporting a big increase in retail sales, and as we all know, it never happened. Welcome to the era of fake news, where govt's, media, and corporations will tell any lie to prop up their "All is well!" narrative. Especially about the... — read more 

Apparently, retail is on the rebound this holiday season. I'm just wondering if anybody noticed that in their Walmart stores? I sure as hell didn't see any rebound in mine, so I'm not sure what they're talking about... — read more 

Kroger's new "Scan, Bag, Go" technology allows customers to scan and pay for goods as they shop. The grocery chain is rolling it out to 400 stores in 2018. Amazon revealed plans in December to introduce a similar technology to its own... — read more