Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

I agree the volume of the stores is what keeps them going. The problem now is all the restructuring is causing problems like shelves being stocked. Walmart could do much better and sell more merchandise if they keep it stocked. I hear it constantly in check out lines how customers are constantly complaining about getting help or needing something. There’s literally no one around to help not even for our seniors to help check them out. Self checkouts was a good idea for a person with a few items but now it’s the only source for getting out of a store. That’s on a slow day in the middle of the day don’t even attemp to go out in rush hour or weekends. They won’t last long there are a lot of other shopping choices now they continue down the we want to over run amazon road and they’ll end up like other Fortune 500 companies 15 years ago just look at all the companies on that list compared to now most are gone Walmart keeps heading down this destructive path and continues to make it a miserable place to work. No raises take away bonuses no matter how hard an individual works glad I’m not there and only have a customer point of view now. It’s embarrassing to say I worked there 17 years. I did learn a lot I look at all the negative managers and make sure I’m not like them. Walmart definitely needs some new consultants on bedside manners and how to treat customers.

Ok...this is a statement that perpetually bothers me. When someone says the company is "way behind on technology" without offering any examples it generally means they are just parrotting something they heard with no understanding. How exactly is the company "way behind"? Is it that they don't have a variant of the Amazon Go store? Because from the automated DCs, to the nationwide logistics network I'm not seeing it. Is it because they didn't stand up their own cloud offering to subsidize the retail side of the business? Should a retailer move into a technology service space? Would the shareholders even allow it? Just look at how the stock responded to the acquisition of Flipkart, which is a technological expansion play and yet got lambasted for it by shareholders. Also, all of these pieces are in no way leading to the obsolescence of the management system. So what exactly is the technology that the company is so far behind on that labor reductions are a way to mask it?

That's not true. Sam spent years in Asia pioneering Asian outsourcing, and working with the Clintons to lower trade barriers in the 70s and 80s.