Wal-Mart shifting labor focus to part-time workers

My suggestion to Walmart employees who will have more time on their hands:

Start selling stuff on the internet.

You'll have a better profit margin than Walmart does,
and you'll be directly competing against the hand that slapped you.

(Have a nice day Sam)

Just think with all that part time help who needs to pay benefits. If Wal-Mart is so concerned about customer service then train your employees better. I guess it's just another way to save a buck, but please lets not try to BS with the customer service excuse.

Walmart is always looking for ways to dilute the American economy. This is just another little step.

Well, in watching WalMart since the death of Sam Walton, truly would make the founder roll over in his grave for what the kids have done to the associates for his great company.
It would seem in scheduling of the associates ( I am surprised that they still refer to them as associates) it looks more like slavery than associates or employees.
In reading from the new Excutive Vice Pres of Human Resources, it would seem that that position should be part time as well which in turn would save thousand of dollars each year.
What is good for the goose should be good for the gander.
WalMart oweners are not to smart or they would know that Sam Walton had the right idea. They don't know that their associates have family and friends an know what is going on with the Part time scam and how bad Walmart treats their employees today. It is a dead end nothing working for a slave owner that is trying to put everyone into poverty and the U.S. as well.
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People still shop their so until everyone actually decides to boycott them u are just supporting their treatment of employees

I'm not suggesting WalMart is paying their emplyees very generously however they are paying what the market is demanding. Whenever a new store is opened, thousands of people apply. If their wages and benefits were so bad, the lines would disappear and they would be forced to raise wages.
We all seem to dismiss the "walmart" effect in the US economy in terms of holding down prices for all consumers. We are all voting with our dollars as WalMart sales continue to increase. Their recent move to reduce the price of generic drugs will do more to reduce drug prices than all the "talk" about Canadian imports etc.
Lastly in the what if category.....What would all the local mom and pop stores be screaming about if WalMart did increase wges by a couple of dollars per hour? It would be....we are losing all of our people to big bad Walmart and we can't compete. WE need a govt subsidy. And the beat goes on.
The solution for all the critics... go the the competitors and spend your money even if the prices are higher, or is that out of the question.

When they wanted to drastically cut the majority of one of the store's in Florida's workforce about 200 of them protested and walked out, leaving management to run the stores. Too bad they can't pick a date and across the board do a walk out, for a few days anyhow, the workers need to work, but I don't think Wal would re-think this policy anyhow-they are that cold.

The CEOs, VPs, the executives get stock options given to them, they sell them-make $50,000 here, $250,000 there, $80,000 elsewhere-GIVEN to them, pocket change. And yet, employees can't get a decent raise, stores are shorthanded-so more work is demanded from the workers-they are stressed out, hell pissed off.

And yet-do you think the executives at the home office could "afford" 10%-25% paycuts? How about salary caps? Of course they could, without batting an eye-saving the company a few pennies. When you cut a 40 hour a week employee 4 hours a week, that is a 10% paycut that many cannot afford.

Remember-you get what you pay for.