NEW YORK—Walmart Inc. is planning to cut more than 1,000 jobs at an Atlanta facility that fulfills orders placed on Walmart.com.
In a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filed on Wednesday, the nation’s largest retailer said it would lay off 1,458 workers at the e-commerce fulfillment center located in Fulton Parkway in Atlanta, Georgia.
Walmart confirmed to Reuters that it was cutting its workforce at the facility and that workers were notified about the move in late August.
“We’re converting the fulfillment center on Fulton Parkway to support our growing WFS (Walmart Fulfillment Services) business,” Scott Pope, a spokesperson for Walmart, said….