Thread regarding Sam's Club layoffs

Less then 24 hours till dooms day

YBM kicks off Monday, I got to my hotel here in Florida at 9:00, there were some big wigs talking loud on the flight, i had to eavesdrop, They said "this will be the worst meeting in the 21 yrs I been with sams" "lot of my friends are gone" "Its sad that we come out to have fun, then go back and have to chop more jobs and then close 37 more sams in 2019" "and whats with the new cart system that members get money back for returning their cart"? Scan and go, self checkouts are killing this buisness, they may need to hire police officers just for all the theft.

The plane landed so they didnt talk to much after that but it was brutal listening to them. Good luck We come back this Friday.

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They company invests in technology like scan n go which will in turn reduce jobs. Yet we still use the "smart" system that has a green screen and looks like what I used to play Oregon Trail on a floppy disk in the 1980's.

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Post ID: @1qsx+S1jiVXn

Haha... Sam’s club is more like Jc Penny when they tried to change to the more modern, digital one .. what happened to them will be the same as what happens to Sam’s club .

Members will continue to get irritated about the change , they will hate paying money to get a shopping cart, a majority hate self checkout, they already hate the prices and they will go up even more due to the increased shrink. Business members already feel that they are not important anymore. Our target member don’t have smart phones and aren’t tech type people.

Sam’s club is destined to fail as it can’t compare to Costco. Never could and never will . They are far superior. They are better merchants, better operators, better marketers and most of all they have a better brand .

Costco has no self check outs , no scan n go but they do pay better , have more managers and supervisors, they have more associates , they have higher sales , higher profits , higher renewal rates , higher executive members .. they are just better

The funniest part is they always advertise at the bottom of the Sam’s club page on here ..

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Post ID: @1msb+S1jiVXn

Some CM left today (Sunday) and others leave Monday. Departure days has to do with location and whether you have been a CM/Co for less than 1 year.

Not everyone at HO is a “big wig”. There are about 25k-30k associates employed at HO (WM/SC) and only about 1k are Director level and above. Also understand that it does not require one to be a “big wig” to know about future changes.

Though you may not like it now, the company is making changes to prevent them from becoming Kmart and other retailers that failed to innovate and change. I believe in the digital direction the company is going.,,,

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Post ID: @1euq+S1jiVXn

CM leave Monday and come back Thursday. Nice try.

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Post ID: @1wkb+S1jiVXn

“Less then” puts a shadow over your message, college educated home office workers tend to not make that type of easy error. Less than is correct.

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Post ID: @1zut+S1jiVXn

But people haven’t even left for YBM yet...

also the “big wigs” wouldn’t be flying your peasant coach. They have their own jets they would take

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Post ID: @1mkz+S1jiVXn

One thing is true there’s gonna be more cuts’

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Post ID: @nnu+S1jiVXn

Fake News...

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Post ID: @kqx+S1jiVXn

Nothing surprises me anymore. We can only hope Karma is real. 😣

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