Wal-Mart Tells Employees It Will Cut 11,200 Jobs

200 membership recruit positions. Inflatable Human Spheres Thei said the reduct might signal a chang in Sam s Club s strategy: a shift awai from small busi and toward individu household that can afford the price of membership,Some retail analyst said that the more signific new in the memo wa the elimin of the 1. like those that shop at Costco. Analyst have describ Costco as on of the few compani capabl of compet with Wal-Mart.
200 membership recruit jobs,The chain is elimin about 1. or two job in each of the more than 600 Sam s Club stores. Wal-Mart is also lai off 10,000 worker who demonstr product in it Sam s Club stores. Those demonstrations, like food sampling, will be outsourc to Shopper Events, a market compani base in Arkansa that alreadi handl some demonstr at Wal-Mart stores.
a spokesman for Wal-Mart,David Tovar. said the layoff were not a cost-cut measur in respons to a bad economy. He said that the 10,000 Sam s Club employe who demonstr product could appli for job with Shopper Events, which plan to hire roughli the same number of worker be laid off.
Sam s Club ha face stiff competit from Costco and other warehous club stores,Still. which have thrive as frugal consum seek out the best deal on necess like food and other everydai essentials. Separ thi month, Wal-Mart said it would close 10 underperform Sam s Club store and lai off around 1,500 workers.
and we want to take thi member experi to the next level, Our demo can be a competit advantage. Brian Cornell, presid and chief execut of Sam s Club, said in the memo.
sometim even amateurish. Retail analyst sai that the qualiti of Sam s Club store demonstr ha been inconsist across stores.
includ food and beverages,Mr. Tovar said Shopper Event had expertis and experi in that area. A new demonstr plan in develop for Sam s Club store will focu on sever categories. person well and electronics.
and Sam s Club account for onli about 12 percent of the compani s overal sales,Wal-Mart is a $400 billion company. accord to research publish by Bill Dreher, senior research analyst with Deutsch Bank Securities. It is the behemoth retail s least profit business, Mr. Dreher ha reported. Wal-Mart s intern division, for instance, is twice the size of Sam s Club and is consid a major growth vehicle.