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By Dhanya Skariachan and Jessica Wohl
Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:17am EDT
(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc has in recent months been only hiring temporary workers at many of its U.S. stores, the first time the world's largest retailer has done so outside of the holiday shopping season.
A Reuters survey of 52 stores run by the largest U.S. private employer in the past month, including one in every U.S. state, showed that 27 were hiring only temps, 20 were hiring a combination of regular full, part-time and temp jobs, and five were not hiring at all. The survey was based on interviews with managers, sales staff and human resource department employees at the stores.
The new hiring policy is to ensure "we are staffed appropriately," when the stores are busiest and is not a cost-cutting move, said company spokesman David Tovar. Temporary workers, he said, are paid the same starting pay as other workers.
Using temporary workers enables the company to have adequate staff on busy weeknights and weekends without having to hire additional full-time staff.
Tovar said fewer than 10 percent of its U.S. workforce is temporary - or what the company internally calls "flexible associates" - compared to 1 to 2 percent before 2013. The majority of its workforce is still regular full-time staff, he said.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/13/us-walmart-hires-temps-idUSBRE95C05820130613
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(620 posts)Costco closer than 85 miles away.
There are only two other supermarkets in my small town, next one is about 25 miles. We do have some smaller markets, such as Fred's and Sav a Lot.
No clothing stores. No shoe stores. (other than the exception listed just above).
Some shoppers have transportation/gas money issues.
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