Walmart cuts more hours

[Pharmacy is a Scam]

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Overnight/3rd shifts are being phased out for <$60M stores. Those impacted will need to find spots during day shifts, and salaried managers will need to re-interview for their jobs. Looks like they’re moving towards an Amazon style of business (cut store personnel because online is more profitable).

Who can confirm?

 

[Modest_anteater]

Overnight/3rd shifts are being phased out for <$60M stores. Those impacted will need to find spots during day shifts, and salaried managers will need to re-interview for their jobs. Looks like they’re moving towards an Amazon style of business (cut store personnel because online is more profitable).

Who can confirm?

Not surprised. I imagine a lot of overnights are hemorrhaging money. Don't worry Bezos will save us all once he puts pharmacies in Whole Foods.

 

[ranger99rx]

I think it's better to close at midnight and have employees come in early before the store opens to stock up is more cost effective. Sale after midnight is barely anything but risk of shoplifting is high. Have you ever walk into Target right at 8am? Their stores are full of employees stocking the shelves. That's why their shelves are fully stocked by 9am.

 

[Gombrich12]

I went in a walmart at 2am once, never again. Did walmart ever have 24 hour pharmacies?

 

[zelman]

I went in a walmart at 2am once, never again. Did walmart ever have 24 hour pharmacies?

I don’t think so.

 

[Sine Cura]

5260 has pharmacy open 24h

 

[zelman]

5260 has pharmacy open 24h

Wow. I wonder what the shift differential is.

 

[maria1oh]

Wal-Mart Unveils 24-Hour Pharmacies

Back in 2005 walmart tried out 24/7 pharmacy but cut back on nearly all of them today.

 

[Thoughtfulsinner]

Stores should close at 12 and open at 6 instead of being open 24 hours. Just a waste of money to pay a pharmacist to sit down and listen to music overnight.

 

[Sine Cura]

BTW this change is not about pharmacy and many Walmarts are closed 12-6 anyway. It seems that higher-volume supercenters (let's say 100 million and above) are 24 hour stores, not your lower-volume SC, "GM" stores or NHM.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

That sucks. I usually wind up at a Walmart at like 3am to go grocery shopping during my off week.

 

[MrBonita]

I use to work at Walmart pharmacy and the techs and cashier got paid minimum wage. The district manager was my friend and he always scheduled us together. He would do his district manager stuff in the pharmacy while I was the actual pharmacist working. That was back in 2000. CVS did not exist in Southern California and Walgreens had those weird tiny drive through stores. The pharmacy competition started getting rough with CVS buying all the Longs drugs and Sav-ons. Walgreens started making big stores. Then the 4 dollar plan came at Walmart to get competitive, people started coming to the pharmacy and I quit. Did not think it could get worse and go backwards.

 

[SoylentGreen]

True for the stores but doesn't really apply to pharmacy. Very few Walmart pharmacies are open overnight anyway.