Wal-Mart to eliminate 1500 back-office jobs at US stores
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has rolled out its Walmart Pay service, which enables customers to pay using their smartphones, at its more than 70 MS and 115-plus Louisiana Walmart stores.
According to Market Watch, individual stores usually have about three employees in accounting roles who count money and manage invoices from businesses that bring products directly to the stores and not from Wal-Mart warehouses.
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Invoicing will be handled at the Bentonville headquarters. "The service was built to make shopping easier and faster, something we know our customers want", said Daniel Eckert, senior vice president, Services, Walmart U.S. The retailer says the affected employees will be given jobs in customer service but will not earn the same wage.
A company spokesperson said the latest move is part of an effort to improve customer service and cut costs by getting people out of the backroom and onto the selling floor. The latest news is merely an expansion of the pilot program. Kory Lunberg, spokesman for Walmart Stores, Inc.
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The company's sales at US stores in operation for over a year increased by 1 percent in the quarter that ended on April 30. This was the 7th consecutive quarter the company showed a slight increase in growth. The executives noted that the company's 4,600-store operation is already too complex. About 10,000 workers in the United States faced losing their jobs.
Walmart, the largest retailer in the country, has announced the elimination of up to 1,500 jobs in some 500 locations across the country. The company will also be opening about 405 Neighborhood Markets and Supercenters in lucrative locations globally in the upcoming fiscal year. They could get jobs in the online pick up department or in pharmacy.
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