Jan 24, 3:50 PM EST
Wal-Mart cuts about 11,200 Sam’s Club staffers
By MAE ANDERSON - AP Retail Writer
AP Photo/April L. Brown
NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Sunday it is cutting about 11,200 jobs at its Sam’s Club warehouse division as it outsources in-store product sampling to marketing company Shopper Events in an effort to win more customers and boost lagging sales.
The terminations represent about 10 percent of the warehouse club operator’s 110,000 staffers across its 600 stores. About 10,000 members of the demonstration department, most part-time workers, were let go. The company also cut its new business membership representative positions, affecting about 2 staffers per store, or about 1,200 staffers in total.
via News from The Associated Press.
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