They continue each week in small dosages, one very dear friend and mentor of mine just today who is a bigger name with the company. He was talented, hard working, and pretty selfless in so many ways. A great leader whose area was only increasing in... — read more 

Repost from @NUUVA0H-god (I thought it was a smart post): Can't really blame Walmart for that one. Given that Amazon uses the profits it gets off its web services to subsidize the rest of its business, this request makes sense. Interestingly enough... — read more 

And how long until they shut those operations down and merge everything into their core business?

Rumor is that Walmart is preparing to purchase Sprouts Farmers Market stores. Walmart is coming back so don't found us out yet! Amazon has a big surprise coming their way if the rumors are true. We will see!

Hearing rumors about layoff in the PA organization. Can anyone verify?

Ah yes the final hammer blow right in the smashed face of Walmart just when it looked like CEO ML could save the day by buying every f---ing e-commerce site in existence Amazon hits Walmart on the low end and the high end in just the last 2 weeks... — read more 

What are your thoughts?

Sorry for this but more to come at the HO! End of month another round.

If you voluntarily leave Walmart do you get reimbursed for all your PTO or is there a 5 day cap?

Amazon is going after Walmart with a 45 percent discount on Prime for lower-income shoppers https://www.recode.net/2017/6/6/15745432/amazon-prime-discount-ebt-cards-government-assistance-lower-income

Well where I work if you are 40 or older, they treat you like an idiot and start looking for ways to fire you. At least it feels that way to me. I've seen so many in these waves of layoffs be older (good) workers. I just saw the article about workers... — read more 

Thoughts? https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/business/walmart-workers-sick-days.html

They will have the survey. I expect dismal ratings across the board. Everywhere. Then management will get that puzzled look on their face wondering why they scored so low and morale is in the dumper. My favorite question is would you recommend... — read more 

What's the over/under on if they send out the survey? In the area I work, people keep quitting. I'm afraid if people score ours honestly, our team will get some visits from HR, which is never a good thing. Our boss would super fun to deal with after... — read more 

Rumors are, and I hate rumors but apparently this feed is in the know., that these positions are going to be going away?

A post from @Nh4CmaY-1tn says "yes."

I've been employed by WM Canada for 6 years. I started as an hourly (minimum wage) associate at the "front end" (cashier) even though that was not the job I applied for online. It took two years of applying for everything on the "wire" before I was... — read more 

Starting Monday, 5/15, 1/2 of all US Co-Mgrs are gone!

Walmart is in big trouble. Massive changes in retail and new competition require new thinking and innovation that I have yet to see at Walmart. Walmart would have to lay off 90% of their store associates in order to maintain the bottom line. Maybe... — read more 

It seems the personnel coordinator position has been saved for the moment, but has anyone heard anything about the training coordinator position??? With the academy and the new orientation program it sure looks as if the writing is on the wall

Recent new store structure called for a reduction in co-managers and assistants in Canada. Our store had to move out an assistant manager to make room for a co that had to "step down" as we had one too many. The trouble is he is still acting like a... — read more 

Rumor mill is stating Walmart is not done with the layoffs.... Thousands more layoffs to come for HO Bentonville. I suppose time will tell. May be time to think about going elsewhere.

The thing about Walmart associates especially tenured ones is that they are very very loyal. They "bleed blue". They've dedicated their careers to this company. Poured their hearts and souls into building it up to the company it is today. I saw... — read more 

It's in the news. The Trump administration is examining and vowing to curb the rampant mis-use of the H1B visa program that was flooding the US job market with cheap labor from India. In ISD we have more H1B holders (associates) than you think. Then... — read more 

I worked in the IT (ISD) department for about 9 years. It is full of wonderful and knowledgeable people who know how to do what they do. Here was the problem, nothing new could come about because of our the associates unwilling to allow or think... — read more 

The fight between e-commerce and Homeoffice will end in the destruction of the company. You can't M&A your way to success at some point you have to stop fighting and do real innovation. All the non technical managers need to be let go and they need... — read more 

I knew Sam and worked closely with him in developing the first iteration of the Walmart Visitors Center in Bentonville back in 1989-90. Sam was adamant that we not call the WMVC a "museum". I'm paraphrasing, but I vividly recall him noting that... — read more 

They'll never be able to cut enough headcount or skus to be as efficient (and thus cheap) as Aldi. Their stores are just too big for that sort of efficiency. And their stores are a fixed resource. So that's a big problem for them. If it were me, I... — read more 

The top brass does not give a damn about the long term viability of the company. They are only trying to squeeze out as much as they can in the short term. They make a ton of money then move on. WM is no longer a mom and pop shop. It has become a... — read more 

Walmart USA is what was impacted. Not sure why pricing is relevant when there is only one person in some of the SBU's. I guess Savings Catcher is being so utilized by so many consumers that there is no need for pricing. Not sure what will happen with... — read more 

Friday, April 28th, numerous pricing team associates were impacted. They either received a package because their position was eliminated or offered a demotion to another group. Seems like a significant restructuring of the role within Walmart. Maybe... — read more 

I heard from a reliable resource there were layoffs occurring in DGTC next week on Wednesday Thursday and Friday. The layoffs will be targeting 75 and higher.

http://fortune.com/2017/04/28/layoff-fears-record-low/ The Gallup poll is based on telephone interviews of about 550 Americans at the beginning of the month. Concerns about layoffs, as recorded by the survey, reached an all-time high in 2010, with... — read more 

I know a re org is coming to Bentonville technology. If I don't like where they are moving me too, Will they give me a severance ???

What happens if we choose not to apply for the new positions? Do they have to give us a severance package? What happens if we don't get the new job we have applied for?

Anyone have new information on personnel positions being eliminated in Walmart stores??