Joe Quinn Jobs and Opportunity at Walmart
WE ALL HAVE ROLES TO PLAY IN PREPARING THE
The retail Apocalypse has descended upon America Thousands of mall-based Thousands of mall-based stores are shutting down… stores are shutting down… More than 3,500… More than 3,500… to close in the next to close in the next couple of months. couple of months.
WHAT THE CONSUMER IS THINKING… 71% prefer products made in the USA 55% make effort to purchase products made in the USA 41% believe in buying US products has become more important
ACCORDING TO THE NY TIMES (7/6/17) Online shopping is only 8.4% of all retail sales Over 5 years, Ecommerce jobs are up 334% While brick & mortar retail industry is flat
WAREHOUSE/CLUBS +841,000 JOBS RETAIL +645,000 JOBS ECOMMERCE +178,000 JOBS
Online can sell MORE with fewer workers New jobs are in LARGE cities and tech hubs
Walmart: Made in the USA Commitment $250 Billion in products purchased from American companies Working with suppliers and states to bring manufacturing home.
Making every day WE ALL HAVE ROLES TO PLAY IN PREPARING THE EASIER for busy families
WE HAVE INVESTED MORE THAN $2.7 BILLION IN TRAINING, EDUCATION, AND HIGHER WAGES
TOMORROW IS ALREADY HERE NEARLY 14,000 PERSONAL SHOPPERS ROUGHLY 13,000 SELF ‐ CHECKOUT HOSTS
Walmart Awards $10.9 Million To Train Chicagoland Retail Workers – RetailLeader.com
Walmart has offered jobs to 170,763 veterans The goal is to hire 250,000 Veterans by 2020
THE POLICY PERSPECTIVE Create Trust, Transparency, Fairness and Choice for customers
WALMART SUPPORTS efforts to have Naloxone/Narcan behind our pharmacy counters for sale without a prescription in all 50 states by the end of 2017
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