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Originally Posted by Warren Kiefer
we seem to be getting carried away on sematics. Technially, neither wal mart is a villages store. I was using the summerfield and oxford terminology to illustrate a point, not to get into a legal discussion. I will stick to my opinion that the management at the summerfield wal mart is much worse than at most wal marts.
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For a couple of years my youngest son was a bakery manager at a Pennsylvania WalMart. The vast majority of today's WalMarts tend to look like WM has a cash-flow problem and can't pay for needed goods. Most WM stores suffer from poorly stocked shelves or out-of-stock items. Many times the store is not out-of-stock at all, but has the items in its back storage section lacking the necessary staff to move products from storage out onto the shelves. Since WM General Managers get their bonuses based on "the numbers" most managers do everything they can to keep payroll at "barely alive" levels. When my son was a bakery manager he had to argue each and every week with the store's GM to keep enough people on schedule just to staff his bakery.
WM has cut their costs to the bone, and then cracked open the bone and sucked out the marrow. Frequently there's nothing and nobody left and the stores are showing it. There's no savings to be had if you can't buy the item you want in the first place.
A number of business publications have reported on this story for awhile now. WM has to get serious about getting its house back in order.