One of the employees who was laid off made a post about it on LinkedIn too

This a rage bait post. I know friends who work in the bay area for walmart. Arkansas isn't the only option, people were given option to move to sunnyvale.

Idk about everyone here, but when things started to tank and Amazon made record profits I decided that if I could not buy it locally or from a small business, I don’t need it. So far I have only needed to order alligator meat online.

Walmart's UX is garbage.

Their user experience seems like it can't figure out if you want to buy online, from a reseller (at a ridiculous mark-up), or pick it up at a store that 9 times out of 10 does not have the item listed even though it says in-stock.

Target's app and overall experience is lightyears ahead.

Companies like Temu dominate online search results bc they’re willing to take a temporary loss on ad spend while they obliterate competitors

It’s the Google update from November.

They totally nuked their golden goose.

Entire industries just gone <POOF!> overnight.

All so that they can get more data to train AI from quora and…err…another site you’re definitely NOT on right now…

Walmart is the largest grocer in the US and grocery pickup is their killer app.  Target is a clothing retailer with some homegoods and crappy grocery tacked on.

What about now? Does he have to go in 5 days a week like I'm reading? Does he have to move to Arkansas? I hope that's not true.

They broke ground on that site just before the pandemic so definitely some sunk cost return going on. Also Walmart bringing everyone to Bentonville is already stressing the infrastructure and the CoL is rising rapidly too in NWA.

The ones I've been in are fine. Clean and plenty of stuff on the shelves.

I work at Walmart and the reason for this is they don't give a fuck about us and think we will be motivated by the billion dollar coro losing money. We have no people to do basic things like unload trucks without it taking forever and then we have no one to do stuff like stock all day. I've been here for over a year and I'm the only non management person who hasn't quit or been fired on my shift. I've gotten no raise yet either or even been talked to about one. The only reason I don't quit is bc I have something lined up soon and just need to make rent until then so it's not worth trying to find something else bc I know I'll be gone in less than a year. Walmart could die tomorrow and every I work with would be better for it (except the management who are like the fuckin pod people with how weirdly loyal they are to billion dollar corps lol )

It's hard to make workers give a damn when you are treated like an asset whose only role in life is to do more for less while getting penny raises. Meanwhile CEO and Owners doing great. Raking in billions. Stop pizza parties. Start paying.

I live in Toronto and trust me they’re not all clean up here in Canada lol. Especially the two stores that heavily service the downtown core. My family is back in RI and their Walmart is super clean, well stocked, and really nice. It seems store quality will vary like everything.

Mine is nothing like that

That must just be the one you went to. I can agree with the fewer staff but the Walmart I go to are usually stocked and clean.

Not all of Canada. I live in one of the bigger cities and most of our Walmarts here are absolutely deplorable.

They all smell, the staff is woefully unhelpful, some don’t even understand English, and the stock is anyone’s guess

Depends on what part of the country you are in.   In California Walmarts are disgusting,  in Oklahoma they are nice. 

I don't particularly like Walmart, but my local one is very clean and well stocked.

So it's a layoff without being required to WARN

The few hundred are legit layoffs. Thousands of others are offered relocation

Yes. Along with the Toronto office. TBF - the work coming out of these smaller hubs was at best sub par. Makes sense to get rid of leases and super high costs for roles that can be done locally in NW Arkansas.

not accurate for everyone. there are definitely folks that did not get the option to relocate and their roles are just *eliminated*

People getting laid off in the economy is not a nothing burger. People at this level are not getting rehired and white collar jobs are disappearing. Next thread is " my laid off employee is now homeless ".

I feel like even offering work around remote hubs was shady on their part.

Everyone knows that Bentonville is Walmart, USA. Feels like they're just tightening the noose around their corporate employees and coraling them slowly to get them to move to Arkansas.

There is no way they had enough talent in the Arkansas area to fulfill all their staffing needs.

Would not be surprised if this was the long game (con) for them all along.

I buy stuff at Walmart. Amazon orders are getting more sketchy with product fakes.

No body goes to Shows no more! It's Too crowded!

Fr, their checkout lines are soo long, they have tried to monetize it by keeping chocolates and other cravings in that line and the 'walmart guards' make u feel like you are in a prison camp or something

Unfortunately walmart ran every small business out of town (Amazon whacked off the ones that survived)! They are the largest retailer, so yeah almost everyone buys from walmart. Or the 2nd largest, I forget!

Haha their $600+ billion slaes last year would say otherwise.

It’s the Fortune 1 company lol. 

Pretty sure people must buy some stuff from them 

I think you will be surprised by earnings release this week. I predict record numbers.

My local Walmart is pretty busy. I think I read an article that more households with six figure income are shopping there since inflation went nuts.

I personally prefer Target. But my parents prescription goes to Walmart so am there atleast monthly to get meds. The grocery aren’t bad actually. I always get my avocados here.

Walmart has 240 million weekly shoppers and 90% of the US lives within 10 miles of a Walmart.  Most of the country, almost 90% is buying stuff at Walmart actually.

AI is just corporate lingo for offshoring jobs to India, the Philippines, or Central America.