Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

Giving everything for profits

If you wanna see what the campus looks like you can go to the Bentonville planning commission and they have architectural drawings and renditions.

My take on what’s happening

The plan is to outsource all home-office activities including legal. The new headquarters will be for the executives and those managers responsible for managing the third parties . There will no longer be transportation, logistics, real estate, finance, legal. corporate affairs etc. A small amount of HR will remain to manage necessities. There is even a rumor that the trucking will be a new subsidiary of JB Hunt.

What will remain are stores the turn a profit and DC‘s. There are growing concerns regarding pharmacies, vision Center’s and clinics NOT being profitable. So, the space can be leased out to other entities, to generate more prophets and reduce risk.

Hope that @W4cLKbO-agus is wrong about this, but I also see this as a possible scenario

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Walmart isn't even really about the profits. It's about winning the customer with the lowest possible prices, and that means bringing down the margins, and that means cutting even more costs and doing even more to get humanity out of the equation. It isn't even the best at it anymore. Those companies are Apple and Amazon, and Walmart's playing catchup.

As a worker, you're at the lowest of the totem pole. If you want to be at the top, move to a Communist country with Union in the name, or at least placed highly, move to a Socialist country. Those countries are losing the economic battle to the low cost ones over time though.

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I can see the trucking and vision center going as well, just recently on the business channel they said that Walmart was looking to cut more which has associates anxious

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I can see the trucking div. going. WM started contracting Schneider years ago in the mid west

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