I have to say-this is the only company I ever worked for where so many people stood around and spent so much time gossiping about rumors which usually don't materialize...
Whatever money Walmart thinks it is saving with these annual changes is spent on the labor wasted by all these hourly people standing around gossiping about their versions of the latest rumor while on the clock not doing any work.
Someone ought to address, that, at a home office roundtable.