With so many options of stores to purchase your daily essentials at, how do you decide where to shop? One of the most distinguishing value propositions for grocery stores is that they will typically be well stocked on everything an individual household depends on for the week. Major retail competitor Walmart should not be expected of anything less than this standard.
In spite of this, shoppers are starting to notice that the aisles of Walmart are not as stocked as they were previously. The once full and colorful aisles have become barren property waiting to be restocked once again. With a surge in the number of Walmart stores over the last couple of years in North America, the ratio between stores and the number of Walmart employees have only become more disproportionate. Garnering a poor reputation for meager wages and few rewards for staff, Walmart is losing many of their customers to competitors such as Target and Costco where staff are treated well and have shelves that are consistently well-stocked. By making critical errors such as inappropriately priced items on their online store in addition to a poor staff to customer ratio, Walmart is beginning to lose it’s position as an excellent supply chain managing company.
Will under-staffing and barren shelves lead to the ultimate downfall of retail giant Walmart?
Aisles sit empty at a local Walmart location.