Walmart To Lay Off 2,300 Sam's Club Employees

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Source: Huffington Post

Walmart plans to lay off roughly 2,300 employees of Sam's Club, the retail giant's membership-only club, CNBC reported via Twitter Friday. A large number of those getting laid off will be assistant managers at stores with weak sales, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Sam's Club on its own is the eighth largest retailer in the country, according to the company's website. More from the Associated Press:

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is eliminating 2,300 workers at its Sam's Club division as it reduces the ranks of middle managers in a bid to be more nimble.

The layoffs, which cut 2 percent of the membership club's employee count of about 116,000, mark the largest since 2010 when the Sam's Club unit laid off 10,000 workers as it moved to outsource food demonstrations at its stores.



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[shenmue]

1. I hope Costco and other places will pick them up

Fingers crossed for them. I don't like when anybody loses their jobs.

[A Simple Game]

2. And who can blame them?

From all accounts it has worked out well for the Walmart stores.

[aintitfunny]

3. How Walmarty of them

Jeez.

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. "... in a bid to be more nimble..."

FUCK YOU.

[benh57]

5. Eh, i dunno. Middle managers can be pretty pointless

There are a LOT of 'middle managers' out there just taking up space.

[840high]

6. Absolutely right. In any business.

[marble falls]

11. So fuck them, right?

[mrmpa]

8. This is what nimble will end up being.............

the clerks and others making minimum wage or a bit above will be told that they must assume the duties previously done be assistant managers. There will be no pay increase, no expansion(s) of their job descriptions, etc. If they aren't nimble enough to cover the duties of the assistant manager(s), they will then be let go.

[Lifelong Protester]

9. That is probably too true

that is the way it goes now in this country- if a bunch of your co-workers are fired or laid off, you who survive are asked to do the physically impossible and 'pick up the slack'.


Only, there ain't no slack anymore.

[rurallib]

10. or manager's and department managers will get a huge workload added

with no pay and a "ship up or ship out" message.

[Sherman A1]

14. Precisely

This is about doing more with less and less and less.....

[DonCoquixote]

7. there is a point

there is no relation between layoffs and actual things that need to be done. Half the middle managers laid off may be the people telling upper managers exactly what was wrong, only to be run over. There is nothing nimble about this, as Costco pays more and is apparently biting into Walmart's profits. Then again, the sort of people that can afford a Sam's club realize that they are being shafted, and then go Costco.

[SoapBox]

12. Few...I guess this "job creator"

ain't too good at being a "job creator".

And what will be the news in about a year? Record pay outs to executives maybe?

Oh, and another food drive for their starving employees.

[davidpdx]

13. 116,000 in Sam's Club division in 4 years?

They must be bleeding red ink bad.

[blkmusclmachine]

15. That's WM for you. They ditched the door greeters, too.