Wal-Mart Cuts 11,200 Sam’s Club Jobs
Friday, February 5th, 2010Author : Biz2Credit Advisor
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, is cutting 11,200 jobs at its Sam’s Club stores, reported Business Week.
The store will eliminate about 10,000 product demonstrator positions, most of them part-time, after hiring an outside marketing company, Shopper Events, to take over demonstration operations, Sam’s Club Chief Executive Officer Brian Cornell said in a memo to employees. The warehouse chain will cut another 1,200 membership recruiting jobs – two in each of the 600 Sam’s Club stores across the country.
The memo, posted on the Wal-Mart web site, said the change is an effort to improve in-store sampling and demonstrations of food and beverages, personal wellness and electronics products.
In a separate announcement on Jan. 11, Wal-Mart said it will close 10 under-performing Sam’s Club stores, eliminating about 1,500 jobs, said Business Week. Overall, Sam’s Club employs about 110,000 people.
Shopper Events, based in Rogers, Ark., said it would hire about the same number of employees that Sam’s Club is letting go, according to Business Week.
Laid-off Sam’s Club employees can apply for the Shopper Events jobs. The company already handles in-store demonstrations for Wal-Mart.
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