Walmart Announces Job Cuts At About 500 Stores

MILWAUKEE -- There are 36 Walmart stores within 50 miles of Milwaukee, and news from corporate headquarters may mean job cuts at a number of them.

Walmart plans to cut jobs at about 500 of its stores in an effort to centralize and update its invoicing policies, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

The workers that Walmart will lay off have back-office roles and oversee invoicing and other accounting tasks for individual stores, Walmart executive Mark Ibbotson told the Journal.

Once these workers are laid off, invoicing duties will be transferred to Walmart's central office in Arkansas.

Each Walmart store generally employs three workers in these relatively high-paid, back-office roles, the Journal reported. Walmart will offer new customer-facing positions to the laid off workers, but the company will not guarantee they will retain the same wage.

In the new roles, workers will make at least $17.55 an hour, Ibbotson told the Wall Street Journal.

The jobs cuts are part of Walmart's new strategy to focus on customer-facing roles and to upgrade its out-of-date practices regarding invoicing at individual stores, the paper reported.

"We really want to pull our workforce onto the floor,” Ibbotson told the Journal.

In January the retail giant announced that it wouldclose 269 stores worldwide, including 154 in the United States.

>>> Read the full story from The Wall Street Journal.

FULL LIST OF WALMART STORES WITHIN 50 MILES OF MILWAUKEE:

1. Milwaukee 401 E Capitol Dr
2. West Milwaukee 4140 W Greenfield Ave
3. Milwaukee 3355 S 27Th St
4. Milwaukee 7025 W Main St
5. South Milwaukee 222 N Chicago Ave
6. Greendale 5301 S. 76Th St,
7. Franklin 6701 S 27Th St
8. Milwaukee 10330 W Silver Spring Dr
9. Greenfield 10600 W Layton Ave,
10. New Berlin 15205 West Greenfield Avenue
11. Brown Deer 6300 W Brown Deer Rd
12. Muskego W159S6530 Moorland Rd
13. Germantown W190N9855 Appleton Ave
14. Pewaukee 411 Pewaukee Rd
15. Waukesha 2000 S West Ave
16. Mt. Pleasant 5625 Washington Avenue
17. Delafield 2863 Heritage Dr
18. Saukville 825 E Green Bay Ave
19. Sturtevant 3049 S Oakes Rd
20. Mukwonago250 Wolf Run
21. West Bend 1515 W Paradise Dr
22. Burlington 1901 Milwaukee Ave2
23. Kenosha 3500 Brumback Blvd
24. Hartford 1220 Theil St
25. Zion 4000 Route #173
26. Lake Geneva 201 S Edwards Blvd
27. Antioch 475 East Route 173
28. Watertown 901 Market Way
29. Gurnee 6590 Grand Ave
30. Whitewater 1362 W Main St
31. Round Lake Beach 2680 N Il Route 83
32. Jefferson 1520 South Main Street
33. Delavan 1819 E Geneva St
34. Sheboygan 3711 S Taylor Dr
35. Waukegan 3900 Fountain Square Pl
36. Plymouth 428 Walton Dr

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