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Business Wars Daily

Walmart Wants to Turn Coeds Into Store Heads

Business Wars Daily

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Business, Business News, News, Daily News

4.6717 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Today is Thursday, May 26, and we're looking at Walmart vs. Target.

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In a tight labor market, retailers are luring folks to work

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any way they can. Walmart may be known for barely budging on its starting hourly wages, even when

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other big box retailers are changing things up, but now it's unrolling a new program that will have

1:24.2

candidates passing right by those lower paid roles into

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salaried store management roles. The retailer announced its college to career program last week.

1:34.5

The pilot program aims to take recent college graduates or current students from co-ed to

1:39.8

storehead in two years. This summer, the first cohort of a thousand participants will go through

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classroom training, hands-on experience, and one-on-one mentoring, Walmart said in a statement.

1:51.8

At the end of the program, top performers will snag a newly created job title, Emerging Coach,

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with a starting salary of $65,000. Within two years, Walmart will move emerging coaches to

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