Walmart is abruptly closing several Sam's Club stores and laying off thousands [100+ stores?]

Business Insider ^ | 01/11/2018 | Hayley Peterson

[Eagles6]

There ya go with that White privilege, homophobic, islamophobic math again, you racist!/sarc

[sparklite2]

Okay. I’ll buy that. Thanks.

[Rebelbase]

Best I can tell Sam’s Club is pulling out of Alaska completely.

[Reno89519]

Many of these are right-to-work states, so no notice necessary. Besides, I bet they got a few weeks severance. Better, as others write, to be abrupt than have employees on site knowing their jobs are gone, working last days—why risk the results that might cause?

[SaveFerris]

[ In some cases, employees were not informed of the closures prior to showing up to work on Thursday. ]

Supplies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB2GboGOuTI

[HollyB]

Will these employees receive 2-4 weeks pay?

[Mariner]

Meanwhile, you cannot find a place to park outside any Whole Foods in America.

[Mariner]

See my #67

[Red Badger]

At our Whole Foods you can.

It’s Bass ProShop next door that has a parking problem!..............

[HollyB]

Doesn’t look like the exceptions pertain in this situation.

It’s directed for employees over 20 hours, which most probably are.

At least they will get 30 days pay, but still a crappy way to treat employees.

[ilovesarah2012]

I hate those warehouse stores. My sister loves them and I’ve gone a few times with her but I refuse to pay a fee to spend my money.

[Mariner]

See my #67

[Freedom56v2]

I suspect closure decisions were more a function of Costco sales rather than Amazon sales—Sam’s Club carries big sizes of many if not most products. However, I don’t buy large sizes/quantities of items from Amazon, so I could be wrong.

In my area, Costco is crazy busy, Sam’s Club not so much. From what I read, seems all Sam’s Clubs in western suburbs of Chicago are closing

[VanShuyten]

I think the locations of the stores on the list in the article might give a clue. Many are in low-income areas, while others are in blue areas.

My local Sam’s caters to small businesses and upper-middle class families, and the one in my Iowa hometown goes after retirees and university/government workers.

[WayneS]

That works. As long as they actually do the “give them 2-4 weeks pay” part.

[fwdude]

Sounds like the Black Eye Pea closings. No one knew.

[WayneS]

If they gave them all 90 days’ pay they could probably avoid it.

[WayneS]

Thank you for the clarification.

[SaveFerris]

[Maybe thats’s what enabled the pay raises touted in earlier headlines today.]

Be careful!! There may be liberals lurking. They won’t be able to understand any possible connection.