Its started with our pharmacist saying their DM basically disappeared, optical and wireless said they have both rumors about being a leased dept. Also, the membership, personnel, recieving and AP job cuts that have been going around for a while in our club. Anyone else hear about the leasing depts ? Wonder what will happen to HAC and pharmacy ?
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*folks dang ac. Lol
Walmart and Sam's Optical are going 3rd party Also Pharmacy . Full time work force going part time. INSURANCE Fokes that's what it is all about! They save about $15000 in insurance benefits per Full time associate they cut plus $4 plus dollars pay roll .. so they are going to keep combining and 3rd partying areas till it's a 0 / 100 % part time full time ratio ! They will eliminate your position or cut your hrs back till you are forced to be automatically cut to part time. It's already happening ask/look around open your eyes fokes.
What optical labs closed? I saw that National Vision has a Dallas lab
NVI already owns all of the Contact lens business for both brands and the website through ther AC lens subsidary and owns many Walmart opticals. As for pharmacy, retailers like target have CVS leased inside. Its always a possibility.
When I came from WM to Sams, I just knew from my expierence membership and Audit was going. Anything WM does not have will disappear at Sams. With optical the problem is coverage look on corp job postings nothing but optician and optometrist jobs. Walmart may just turn sams into a staff less store like Amazons prototype or Aldis min staff.
Where do they have salaried managers in optical? They are hourly.
There is no rumor of them getting rid of the optical manager so it's a moot point.
The issue is salaried managers in the optical center, not the value of licensed opticians or the center itself. Co managers are phasing our because the salary cost. You have to justify an expense in business or do away with that expense if you want to stay in business and compete. Too many emotions and not enough business common sense being reflected on this board. Nobody wants anyone to lose their job, but if it were your business what would you do to remain competitive and stay afloat? If you can streamline manager salaries you cut a chunk of operating expense. It is what it is...
It's obviously hard enough that a lot of States require going to school to be an Optician.
The optical center does not need salaries manager anymore than wireless needs a salaried manager. Optical centers order take rx lenses and sell sunglasses. How difficult can that be and how cost effective is it to pay a salary to oversee that arrangement? Rx lenses can be purchased online now. So it makes no cost-effective since to prop up a salaried position for that department. Does every department have an individual salaried manager? No. Justifying salaried positions is why the restructuring must occur and clubs must close...while some whine about the necessity of keeping these positions in place. Show position worthiness as it relates to the bottom line or shut it down...that is boardroom talk for these decisions. It’s a business not a shelter that they are trying to run.
To the most recent comment, which optical labs have shut down? That’s news to me.
To the person who says the company has invested billions in optical can you tell me where? As it is most of the orders are being done in Mexico. And the contact lenses come from a company that is owned by national vision. Two optical labs have shut down. So I guess maybe the company invested billions to offshore the jobs. That’s my guess.
People that think optical is sitting and doing nothing have never worked in optical. There is a reason it's in the highest pay grade for hourly. Literally, every other job in the store is easier. The turnover rate in non-licensed states is high since most people can't handle it. Most states require that they go to school and that they're licensed. It makes sure they are knowledgeable and can handle the difficult issues that come up.
In non-licensed states, they are pushing the associates to be certified with the ABO, which costs the company money. Costco requires it in non-licensed states. Again, not something they would do if they are offloading it. There has been talk for the last three years or so to make it mandatory, but nothing yet.
We don't have a Dr in our optical. Can't seem to keep one. We have a manager and 2 hourly that sit doing nothing most of time. A waste of money in salaries.
The optical center literally can't run on one person like the HAC. The HAC is only a third party because Walmart hasn't invested billions in a hearing infrastructure like they have optical. The profit margins in optical are huge. It's like printing money.
Why would Walmart keep investing in its optical infrastructure if it was going to a third party? They wouldn't, they're not stupid.
This isn't happening. It's just trolls that have no idea how Walmart runs it's optical division.
There is only one person in optical in low volume stores you yutz
Optical needs to go 3rd party because the optical managers show know value and the optical center is typically overstaffed compared to the HAC which only requires one individual to run the entire center.
HAC is already a third party
The optical rumor has literally been going around online for 15 years. I looked into it. If optical was going 3rd party, so would the Walmart stores, yet there are no rumors over there. They recently overhauled the insurance system. They wouldn't have bothered if a 3rd party was taking over.
Just a bunch of trolling on here.