Sam’s Club laid off 10,000 workers nationally, including hundreds in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, during early-morning store meetings Sunday.
The move follows recent store closings around the country.
Inquiries at local Sam’s Clubs on Sunday were referred to company headquarters in Bentonville, Ark. Calls to the corporate public relations office there were met with recorded messages promising to return calls during “regular business hours.”
Raynetta Dennis, who worked at an Addison store, said there was no advance notice of the layoffs of workers who did product demos in stores and outside marketing people who called on business to solicit club memberships.
"They laid off everybody on the demo teams and outside marketing," Dennis said. "That's 18 people in that store, and there are 28 local Sam’s Clubs in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. It's supposed to be nationwide."
She said the workers were told Crossmark would eventually take over in-store demos and that laid-off workers could apply to Crossmark for jobs that will pay $7.25 an hour.
After more than 10 years with Sam’s, Dennis said she was making $16 an hour until Sunday morning.
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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
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Economist and co-founder of General Systems Theory
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ReplyDeleteWal*Mart/Sam's Club profits up -- also good news 10,000 new jobs created at Crossmark -- see the economy is getting better and new jobs are being created --
King Obongo will be using Crossmark as the poster child of his job growth program.
ReplyDelete"Look what I've done, Love Me, Whorship ME!"
8:31 even if that dumb statement were true +10,000 jobs-10,000 jobs EQUAL ZERO. What arithmetic planet are you from?
ReplyDeleteI wish we still had President Bush in office. Our country would be so much better off. He had us all working, he send out checks to us on a regular bases to help us keep the economy going.
ReplyDeleteAll in favor of recalling Bush raise your hands. He's the only one that can save this stinking, sinking ship. For 8 years he kept us afloat, Obama has been President for one year and the country has gone to the dogs.
We must raise up and get him out of office. We can't survive 4 years of this.
8:31 is the same damned troll who goes around posting this nonsense and misinformation everywhere. Probably is a gov. employee.
ReplyDeleteAnon 9:11 & Anon 10:00, let me break it down Big Bird style for you uptight clueless souls, Anon 8:31 was being sacrcastic.
ReplyDeleteIt was funny.
9.44 Your right Obie has to go.But only a mongolian idiot devoid of any common sence or intellect would pine for the good ole day of that scum rat bag Bush and his cabal of thugs and corporate reprobates.
ReplyDeleteWe need a paradign shift.not the tweedle dee tweedle dum we have at the present time.Both are corrupt self serving.Believe the current system left to its own devices will not solve this crisis.I dont have the answer but the status quo aint it.Anyone for a nice cup of lip service.
9:11 is a disinfo agent. Note how they always change the subject, or twist it around.
ReplyDeleteLearn to ignore these trolls.
I agree, EA. During the country's growth spurt the last few decades, while it was great to get the new restaurants and stores in our small town, something just didn't seem right with the constant talk about "growth." Sure, if you're not going forward you're probably going backward, but I wondered how this constant growth was going to end. Obviously it had to end sometime. Is growth intrinsically a good thing, and why would it be? Did no one consider the downside, like too much traffic and a strain on infrastructure? My husband used to wonder aloud, who is buying all these houses?
ReplyDeleteI am to feel sorry for the Sam's Club workers?
ReplyDeleteAt least they get a chance to get another job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
enough with all the BITCHING alreay, I make 5$ per hour washing windows and have a family of 4 to feed, HOW THE HELL WILL I MAKE IT?
Sam's can kiss my azz, the leaches, the whole lot of them.
Where the PHUCK IS MY BAILOUT?
2:06, go pick crops. Course you will have to fight the illegals for the job but it pays much better than washing windows at $5/hr
ReplyDeleteI have a few bucks left in the bank. I would be happy to enter into a limited partnership with other investors.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know how to start a cremation business? Every day there are new customers available to take care of.
No joke, it's depression proof.
2:20 knows little about farming, as most everything is "picked" by machine these days.
ReplyDeleteOne of the problems is the idea of: "Every man for himself", the key to keeping this boat afloat is working together, not being jealous cause one guy is doing better than you.
ReplyDeleteDivided we all fall. That's what the bankers and the Govt are counting on, us turning on each other, killing each other...yeap funeral business will be recession proof, IF the insurance companies can handle the number of claims that will come in when all hell breaks lose.
Otherwise, it will be mass graves, like parts of Haiti.
11:32, you mean 8:31 is the troll.
ReplyDelete6:34, it would be nice then if people could stop bragging or showing off how much money and stuff they have when we are posting about losing jobs and the state of the economy. If we are going to work together, then those who are "haves" are also going to have to share with the "have nots."
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