Walmart Layoffs – What’s The Real Deal
Walmart’s Sam’s Club shocked more than 11,000 of its workers yesterday morning when it called them in to a meeting and laid them off without warning. The reason for the layoffs? Outsourcing. But not to China. Or anywhere overseas.
Rather they are being outsourced to the same associates who have been doing the jobs.
Ten thousand of the workers who were let go demonstrated products at Sam’s Club stores, giving shoppers samples of food or health products. But now Shopper Events, a company based in Arkansas (just a stone’s throw away from Walmart’s corporate headquarters), will take over all of the product sampling for Walmart and Sam’s Club. Shoppers Events is described as, “the only authorized in-store event-planning company for Walmart”.
