About nine percent of the Sam's Club employees will lose there jobs in a new layoff announced by Wal-Mart on January 23, 2010. The cut will affect about 2 new business membership representative positions in each Sam's Club store. In addition, the product sampling will now be outsourced, leaving about 10,000 people hold this position without a job. Sam's Club currently employs about 110,000 people.
Shopper Events, based in Arkansas, will take over the product sampling for the Sam's Club stores. In a memo to employees, Sam's Club CEO Brian Cornell stated the"roughly the same number of people" cut and workers are invited to apply for those positions" with Shoppers Events. That is not a guarantee of re-employment, however.
Cornell said that Sam's Club was shifting its focus from opening new clubs to remodeling existing ones as it works to increase sales.
Earlier in the month, it was announced that Sam's Club would be closing 10 locations across the United States. The expected loss of jobs was to be roughly 1,500.
The total job losses in the recent cut will affect approximately 11,200 Sam's Club employees.
Written by Cheryl Phillips
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