Following the announcement of layoffs at U.S. retailers Albertsons and Kroger, Walmart has announced plans to lay off or relocate more than 800 corporate employees.
As part of the massive retailer’s broader relocation strategy that began last year, Walmart is closing its office in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.A., and the company is also asking employees in Hoboken, New Jersey, as well as some of its smaller offices across the country, to relocate either to its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, or its office in Sunnyvale, California, according to a 4 February memo from Donna Morris, Walmart’s chief people officer, per Grocery Dive.
Since the memo was sent out, the retailer has shared more specific layoff and relocation numbers via Supermarket News. Walmart Spokesperson Nick DeMoss said the number of employees impacted include 481 in Hoboken, 267 in Charlotte, and 79 in San Bruno, California.
Walmart does not know yet how many of the workers will choose to relocate. The deadline to make a decision outlined in the retailer’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notices is 13 June.
Unlike the Charlotte office, the …
