I doubt it will be management, as somebody else predicted. Considering how unexpected the whole Pharmacy thing was, now I'm worried that literally nothing is safe.
Do we have ANY ideas if something else might be hit the same way Pharmacy was?
Talk about having my stress levels increase tenfold...
I am a self check out host. Hoping that position is job security. However i have been with the company for 14 years. Hearing rumors they might get rid of 10 year and more employees. I hope not..i need my job. But who knows?
Ext they are downsizing all jewelry. Fine jewery will be online. Costume jewelry in stores. Eliminating jewery postions..Combining Hardware. Spoeting goods and Auto. 1 big wrap around counter. 1 DM and 1 PS.. The same. They will have to reapply for new position and if not stepdown or leave. Its coming!!!
VC is been on Hush lock down for about 2 years. They were suppose to lauch glasses online and that feel through the cracks. Upper management with MBAs but no optical field experience really make poor business decisions. Mods set in crazy ways where it confusses the employees and customers, constantly changing initiatives and programs. Just let opticians help patients, revise the warranty to eliminate unlimited breakage and ease up on this hospital clean craziness. When the workers feel at ease the money will come. When everyone fears the DM (with no optical experience) it like paying tribute to Ceasar.. No ones that excited about it. The vision center should be fun. But its all about clipboard etc. If Walmart was serious about the VC and compliance like they pretend, they should have gotten the electronic Hippa Pads fix for most stores about fives years ago. I know of none that currently work.
Easy answer, look at changes Kmart made over the years look at what WalMart is doing and count your days left. Going down the same rabbit hole while many other brick and morter retailers grow and fill the gaps. Who will take over is the biggest question. Is Wal Mart too big to fail? Its failing now.,,
I could be wrong, maybe the company is to big to fail. Maybe I'm over valuing Walmart's long term associates. I feel after the Great Workplace rolls out company wide and targets the Dept mgrs the last holdouts for the long term associates that had any pride in the company once upon a time the real problems will begin. They should just dump that pathetic cheer in the meeting, that era of Walmart culture is dead.
Could be just about anyone. Expect many stores to downsize or close, and the remaining ones to be bare-bones - the store where I work (in SW Michigan) has already cut back so much that there is hardly enough staff to keep the store running.
Right or wrong, I always use the two stores in my town as an accuracy guage to all this doomsday stuff we read on here. Although it's true these stores don't represent all of Walmart as a company, this is a pretty economically devastated area, so we can get at least a mean average of an idea..
And both these stores are doing fine. JUST SAYIN' ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Welcome to Walmart!
You’re just getting a little taste of what division one has been going through for over 10 years. No one is safe!