Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

If "they need to find somewhere else to go" was good enough for Great Depression//Dustbowl refugees fleeing to California to pick crops, or for rafts and caravans of destitute migrants coming to the U.S or Europe to have some chance at work and making a living -- then it's good enough for people in the U.S. who stuck themselves in retail because they didn't want to leave their podunk town.

I will never understand why people are so lazy and entitled to resist going where the opportunities are. You're not so special that you deserve to have things handed to you on a platter while you stay rooted in place, never learning or changing, expecting time to stand still for you. Adapt or die -- that's how it goes, and retail workers aren't immune.

If you think it is bad now, wait until automation kills off another 30 or 40 million jobs. You might want to research it and polish up your skill set.

Agreed Walmart at one time was fully staffed in the evenings and weekends by high school and college kids. During the day part of the staff were career retail type the rest picking up extra cash working moms.

An entirely different demographic works there now. Some are truly grateful for a job. Others have entitlement/bitterness.

My mother started working at a Walmart store in her mid 60s, after my father retired. She worked there for 17 years. Various departments and cashiering. She enjoyed helping customers and the social aspect. She felt valued. When she retired I was amazed to learn that the next most senior person at the store only had 6 years in.

Her experience is a bit different from the Walmart HQ experience.