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The retail stores that are turning franchise are the following.

• Under performing year over year (all metrics, not just growth)

• overlapping/ redundant stores, including stores in congested markets (example, districts with stores within a 30 mile radius from each other)

• locations with upcoming expiring leases

• locations that have not been remodeled

• Mall locations (all)

The cuts outside of stores closing will be support channels, R2B reps/managers, Sr operations analysts, training, director consolidation, sr director consolidation, market presidents and VPs and their support teams (executive assistants, etc.) Retail stores with 3 assistant managers.

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So believe me when I tell you right now their going to give up about 200 corporate owned run retail stores to authorized retailers or close completely some locations,but over the next few years Verizon plans to have no corporate owned stores .All 3rd party sellers.I believe if your on the Verizon Wireless retail side start planning to get out . Even if you survive these Layoffs over the year or 2 .The end is near

What's the prediction?

A reliable source is telling me that all corporate stores in Alaska / Hawaii are going to be either closed or sold off to an indirect. I think it's fewer than 15 stores in both areas.

Company: Meati Holdings
Source: AgFunderNews

New owner of Meati insists brand ‘poised for growth’ after mass layoffs, staff say there’s ‘no plan, just a shutdown and silence’
Summary: After AgFunderNews reported mass layoffs at Meati’s Thornton, Colorado plant, the new owner issued a release saying the site was unprofitable but the brand was poised for growth. Former employees disputed the narrative, saying accounts were frozen and operations halted.
City: Thornton
State: Colorado
https://agfundernews.com/new-owner-of-meati-insists-brand-poised-for-growth-after-mass-layoffs-staff-say-theres-no-plan-just-a-shutdown-and-silence

Mostly higher ranking, left on their own. I'm guessing this is a sure sign that we're closing?

You have seen over the past 2 years thousands of employees being laid off. Multiple locations/sites have been shut down. Low salary increase. Management has no plan or vision to grow. If I were in your shoes as a current employee, I would stick to the minimum rule. Rule of working zero weekends, OT, or going above and beyond at my job. It is a matter of time before you will be next on the list that will save some money for the company.

The South Windsor Warehouse is closing does that mean the off price backstage going away? Personally I find Backstage a distraction. Macy’s should make “Last Act” sections a major markdown to get product out of the stores asap.

I heard today that they will be closing stores by the end of the year…..hopefully not true

The comrades in management have slated the launch of their yellow ai for February so it is likely they will can more people then. I expect more centres to close as all disposable income seems to be pumped into this thing.

Welp. Was checking my email and just got the news.

Whoever predicted that things have been a little too quiet recently was right on the money.

It's a shame, I've worked with many developers and testers from the region and have been helped countless times by them. For me this comes as a huge shock and honestly makes me pretty sad..

Hoping everyone will get along fine over there.. but damn

The Salem credit card customer service site was closed today. No fanfare. 10 am scheduled meeting. Handshake from executives walking the floor thanking us for our service. And turn in your computer on the way out. 201 heads with one giant swing of the axe. 2 years of sitting on pins and needles, the relief was palpable in the building.

Why do New Jersey full line Macy's always seem to avoid the chopping block? This has been the case since 2017. It is the market the stores are in?

So our site is getting closed next week. How does the displacement go down? Do they send you an invite the day prior to come onsite the next day and drop off your laptop and badge? Since there’s hundreds of us in the site curious how this will go down or is it just a virtual phone call and then we ship our laptops back? We’ve heard leadership will be onsite so just not sure what the protocol is.

Heard a rumor they are moving where toner will be manufactured, like offshore.
Would that make any sense with tariffs?
Doesn't the union have an agreement?
Or is this just to close all of webster facility?

BNY Mellon employees are voicing deep concerns about layoffs, offshoring, and leadership transparency. Sentiment ranges from frustration and distrust to resignation and strategic exit planning.

Below are current results of the Top 15 employee concerns, associated employee sentiments and reactions to leadership responses. These are actual results (with a hint of humor) based on current internet discussions and reports from multiple sources.

Top 15 Concerns & Sentiment Breakdown:

1. Offshoring to Pune, India
   📉 Employee Sentiment: Betrayal, anxiety, and the creeping suspicion that their job just got a one-way ticket to another time zone. Frustration, betrayal, fear of redundancy.
   🎩 Leadership Perception: “Global talent optimization.” Translation: cheaper labor, dismissive of U.S. talent, fewer complaints, and better PowerPoint formatting. Cost-driven, efficiency-focused; perceived as dismissive of U.S. talent.

2. Forced Ranking & Performance-Based Exits
   📉 Employee Sentiment: Hunger Games meets HR. Everyone’s a “low performer” eventually. Anxiety, distrust in fairness.
   🎩 Leadership Perception: “Driving a high-performance culture.” Also, a great way to trim headcount without calling it a layoff. Justified as "performance culture"; seen as opaque and arbitrary.

3. Closure of Wilmington & Other U.S. Sites
   📉 Employee Sentiment: Shock, grief, and a sudden interest in Zillow listings in Delaware. Anger, helplessness, lack of relocation support.
   🎩 Leadership Perception: “Strategic footprint realignment.” Bonus points for announcing it via Teams chat at 4:59 PM on a Friday. Framed as strategic consolidation; perceived as abrupt and lacking empathy.

4. AI-Driven Role Elimination
   📉 Employee Sentiment: “I trained the bot that replaced me.” Skepticism, fear of being replaced.
   🎩 Leadership Perception: “Innovation at scale.” Also, the AI doesn’t ask for raises or take mental health days. Promoted as innovation; seen as lacking in human impact planning.

5. Unequal Salary Increases
   📉 Employee Sentiment: Analysts got a 20% bump. VPs got a “thank you” and a free meditation app. Frustration, betrayal, perceived favoritism.
   🎩 Leadership Perception: “Market-aligned compensation strategy.” Also, “We’ll circle back on that.” Leadership disconnected from frontline realities.

6. Lack of Transparency in Layoff Criteria
   📉 Employee Sentiment: Rumors, paranoia, and Teams channels named 'Who’s-Next. Distrust, rumors, emotional exhaustion.
   🎩 Leadership Perception: “We can’t comment on individual cases.” Also, “Please refer to the FAQ we updated 3 minutes ago.” Avoids specifics; messaging seen as evasive and legally sanitized.

7. Decline of Pittsburgh as a Growth Hub
   📉 Employee Sentiment: Nostalgia, resentment, and a sudden uptick in LinkedIn activity. Disappointment, strategic exit planning.
   🎩 Leadership Perception: “Decentralized innovation.” Also, “We’re excited about our 3 strategic growth centers and lower cost, consolidated real estate holdings.” Quietly deprioritized; perceived as abandoning legacy locations.

8. Severance Inconsistencies & Unemployment Eligibility
   📉 Employee Sentiment: Confused, lawyer-curious, and Googling “constructive dismissal.” Confusion, fear of financial instability.
   🎩 Leadership Perception: “We’re following all applicable laws.” Also, “We appreciate your service.” Legally cautious; seen as ethically indifferent and inconsistent.

9. Culture of Waiting for Retirement or the Next Cut
   📉 Employee Sentiment: Zombie mode. Badge in, badge out. Resignation, disengagement.
   🎩 Leadership Perception: “Voluntary attrition is a natural part of transformation.” Also, “We’re building a future-ready workforce.” Not directly addressed; perceived as passive acceptance of attrition.

10. Global Workforce Imbalance & Morale
    📉 Employee Sentiment: U.S. teams feel ghosted. Offshore teams feel ghostwritten. Fractured teams, resentment across regions.
    🎩 Leadership Perception: “One global team.” Except some teams are more 'global' than others. Framed as global optimization; seen as favoring offshore growth over U.S. retention.

11. Leadership Communication Style
    📉 Employee Sentiment: Corporate Mad Libs with a side of gaslighting. Cynicism, fatigue.
    🎩 Leadership Perception: “Transparent and empathetic.” Also, “We’re listening.” (But only to shareholder sentiment, not you.) Polished but vague; perceived as disconnected and overly scripted.

12. Strategic Ambiguity in Transformation Plans
    📉 Employee Sentiment: “What are we transforming into, exactly?” Confusion, lack of trust.
    🎩 Leadership Perception: “Agile, resilient, and future-focused.” Also, “That's a broken sprint and we may pick that up in our 2026 PI-3 planning.” Buzz-word heavy; seen as lacking clear direction or accountability.

13. Declining Internal Mobility
    📉 Employee Sentiment: “Apply internally” = “Apply to be ignored.” Hopelessness, stagnation.
    🎩 Leadership Perception: “We encourage career growth.” Just not here. Or now. Or for you. Not prioritized; perceived as undermining career development.

14. Performative Wellness Initiatives
    📉 Employee Sentiment: “I lost my job, but at least I got a free access to Spring Health's mindfulness self-help app.” Eye-rolling, sarcasm.
    🎩 Leadership Perception: “We care deeply about your well-being.” Especially when it doesn’t cost anything. Promoted heavily; viewed as superficial and misaligned with actual stressors.

15. Erosion of Institutional Loyalty
    📉 Employee Sentiment: “I used to bleed for BNY Mellon. Now I just bleed.” Exit planning, emotional detachment.
    🎩 Leadership Perception: “We’re evolving our culture.” Into what, no one knows. Possibly a chatbot. Not acknowledged; perceived as collateral damage of transformation strategy.

Summary Themes:

• Strategic Distrust: Employees feel decisions are driven by cost-cutting, not stewardship.
• Emotional Fatigue: Layoff cycles and vague transformation language have worn down morale.
• Leadership Disconnect: Senior leaders are viewed as detached, evasive, and overly polished.
• Exit Momentum: Younger and mid-career professionals are actively seeking roles elsewhere.

In summary, BNY Mellon's transformation strategy is widely perceived by employees as a cost-cutting campaign disguised in corporate jargon, marked by offshoring, opaque layoffs, and performative wellness. Leadership is seen as detached and scripted, while morale erodes under forced rankings, AI-driven exits, and strategic ambiguity.

What do you think? Please share in the comments.

I saw they finally leaked the entire location is closing. They should give employees time to find new jobs, most won't be able to relocate. How they treat employees is wrong

Comcast Corp., owner of the nation’s largest cable TV and broadband provider Xfinity, informed the state on Wednesday that it will eliminate 302 positions at its West Division office in Centennial at the end of the year.

The company, one of the largest private sector employers in the state, said it would close its West Division headquarters at 9401 E. Panorama Circle in Centennial as part of a larger streamlining that will remove all three divisional headquarters.

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/10/16/comcast-layoffs-centennial-colorado/

I just spoke to my PGL and she said layoffs are about to start at JRC. Many people let go. A few areas will close. She couldn't say who in my area but there will be alot. She left and went to a finalization meeting.

So everyone one who is still at JRC, get ready.

Cairo site will be doing layoffs this monday and for the next 2 weeks. The team scand engineers have been offered positions with partners but not many have accepted... going to be interesting to see how coverage in isg and dpd will be in emea do to the loss of this center...

Exec leadership going to Montreal and East Aurora. Looks like they're finally shutting them down. Let's see how many relocation packages they offer.

Starbucks is planning to eliminate 900 roles and close several underperforming stores by the end of the year, chairman and CEO Brian Niccol said on Thursday, Sept. 25.

Niccol, who became CEO of the coffee chain in September 2024, wrote in a note to employees that the two major changes are being made as part of its $1 billion “Back to Starbucks” restructuring plan.

Niccol said the company had reviewed its portfolio of stores and “identified coffeehouses where we’re unable to create the physical environment our customers and partners expect, or where we don’t see a path to financial performance, and these locations will be closed.”

Employees in the shops scheduled to close will be notified this week, and the company will work to offer transfers to nearby stores, and for those that can't be moved, severance packages will be offered, Niccol said.

He said the company will end the year with nearly 18,300 total Starbucks locations across the U.S. and Canada, and that there are plans to grow the number of coffeehouses in 2026.

More than 1,000 locations will also be renovated to “introduce greater texture, warmth, and layered design” over the next 12 months, Niccol added.

Starbucks did not provide the exact number of locations closing, but said the company’s overall company-operated count in North America will decline by about 1% in the fiscal year 2025 after accounting for both openings and closures.

In addition to the closures, Niccol said the company would be eliminating about 900 “non-retail” roles and closing “many open positions.” The affected employees will be notified on Friday, Sept. 26, and severance packages will be offered, he said.

This is the second round of layoffs under Niccol, after 1,100 corporate workers were let go in February.

“I know these decisions impact our partners and their families, and we did not make them lightly,” Niccol said. “I believe these steps are necessary to build a better, stronger, and more resilient Starbucks that deepens its impact on the world and creates more opportunities for our partners, suppliers, and the communities we serve.”

Starbucks Workers United, a union representing 12,000 baristas across 45 states, said in a news release it was sending a formal request for information to Starbucks about the closures.

“We expect to engage in effects bargaining for every impacted union store, as we have done elsewhere, so workers can be placed in another Starbucks store according to their preferences,” the statement reads. “Fixing what’s broken at Starbucks isn’t possible without centering the people who engage with the company’s customers day in and day out.”

Overlake Medical Center and Clinics will cut 55 employees in November, part of a broader realignment as health care providers across Washington state contend with rising costs and reduced federal reimbursements.

The hospital system announced Tuesday that the positions will be eliminated effective Nov. 23. In addition, Overlake will leave open jobs unfilled and close its Lake Hills urgent care clinic.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/overlake-layoffs-health-care-providers-washington/281-e5e7ef14-842b-4e14-b4ff-f0ea3b3eca89

I hate that Halliburton is such a layoff happy company. Many of us were laid off recently and told that we could be subject to call back. Not so fast. I talked to my friend who still works at JRC, and he told me that the PGL's and the leadership have been having meetings since Monday about another layoff list. He said that November layoffs are a fact and that an additional 30% will be let go. Some areas will close and others will merge together. He said the order books are being manipulated to make the employees think that everything is ok. in his area, no new work is being released. He told me that some operations are currently being moved to Oklahoma and some sent overseas.

Please spread the word and prepare others for November.

Looking like the Manchester, NH site is toast. F in the chat for all the test engineering teams.

RIP

https://newsfeed.wtjx.org/podcast/wtjx-newsfeed/2025-09-18/kmart-pharmacy-in-tutu-park-mall-on-st-thomas-closes-customers-and-staff-transition-to-walgreens

so yeah, no more oldsmar campus. they're closing out remaining departments and moving to maryland. just got 2 weeks notice.

It was confirned yo us on an AMER team meeting that Cairo office to be shut, severance to be paid to 180+ employees, plus potential option to move to capgemini... Just like that eh wow.

Got an invite, so did about 500 others I saw - CEO in Center Valley....for.....what? There's like no one in that building let alone we have like half of the third floor or something, right? So whats he really doing? Closing shop?

I worked with some really good HP folks in SD. Last I heard was that the site was going to be permanently closed this October after it was sold to Apple.

Tried to contact some folks but emails inactive. Just curious.

I used to work there but was let go in 2020. While looking at the site, I noticed on Google Maps that the El Segundo office is marked as 'Temporarily closed,' and I didn’t see it listed on Teradata’s website. Has that office been shut down?

Several shop will be closed once UP takes over NS. Up only cares about getting to the coast. Good bye Cincinnati.

Revvity Inc., a biomanufacturing company, is closing its South End facility in Boston and laying off all 74 employees at the site. The layoffs are expected to be completed by the end of the year, with a WARN notice filed with the state of Massachusetts indicating the layoffs will occur between November 1, 2025, and August 31, 2028.

The company, headquartered in Waltham, has not given a specific reason for the closure. This move follows a period of business realignment and cost management for the company, which recently lowered its outlook due to policy changes in China.

For additional information, you can find the original article here: https://www.nbcboston.com/boston-business-journal/revvity-layoffs-boston-facility/3807940/

The previous post was removed for no good reason. No rules were violated in the OP.

So, let's try again.

When is Des Moines being shuttered, and why is it taking so long?

Des Moines was previously identified as a 'specialty' (i.e. not go-forward) location.

Surely someone knows something.

The mortgage operations could easily be shifted to other sites, so that can't be it. Not to mention that the CEO plainly stated that mortgages aren't this bank's future.

I was a victim of the layoffs today at JRC. And I don't understand why management is not telling the truth about another round of layoffs in November. An employee in HR told me two weeks ago that FE/RDXT is closing down in November. And when I call another employee in a different area, he said the same thing. They just don't know if they want to lay them off or move them. If you look at the order book, all of the orders stop in October. The manager told everyone that there area wasn't involved in this round. Why isn't he being truthful. The even put a new PGL in there, just to have the area close down. All of these guys lives are being impacted by lies.

For those that were there, what did Rob Thomas say about RTP?
Did he say anything about how the RTP main site just closed?