Walmart announced a few weeks ago that it would lay off 200 workers in the ecommerce department. Now, according to the online media Bloomberg, 2,000 employees of different roles will be affected.
For now, we know that more than 1,000 jobs will be affected at a warehouse in Fort Worth, Texas, according to reports. explained and the state workforce commission. These layoffs are also added to almost 600 jobs in a logistics center from Pennsylvania400 in Florida and about 200 in New Jersey. Bloomberg shares that layoffs are also being considered in California.
Even so, Walmart would be expanding personnel in some areas to continue promoting its online business. This move would allow him not to fire all the workers, but to reorganize them and change departments.
This would be the largest number of layoffs that the American company has made, since until now it had managed to keep jobs. A figure below that of its main competitor, Amazon, which to date has made around 27,000 layoffs.