Walmart Takes on Amazon with Free Shipping for Sam's Club Members

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[Dark Lord of Tech]

Didn't they just close a bunch of Sam's Clubs , how does this compete.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2018/01/11/see-if-your-sams-club-closing-heres-list/1026816001/

 

[mjslakeridge]

They did announce the closing of some Sam's clubs, but I thought it was going to be lower performing ones. We still have a few here in Houston. In some cases they have a Sam's right near a large Walmart (across the street over by MicroCenter's new location).

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

This was my favorite:
Walmart raises minimum wage, announces layoffs...LOL

 

[mjslakeridge]

Makes sense to me ^^^. If you are going to pay someone more money, you should expect their productivity to increase, requiring fewer people. If you raise the wages of entry level people, aren't the Supervisors going to want more also, so their subordinates aren't making nearly what they make. And then the Managers, and then the Directors, Vice Presidents, etc.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Problem is productivity won't go up.