Walmart to cut 7,000 back-office accounting, invoicing jobs

Walmart plans to shed about 7,000 store accounting and invoicing positions as the company moves to automate those processes, though workers will be offered positions elsewhere in their stores, the company confirmed Thursday. The big-box retailer's plans affect less than 1% of its U.S. workforce of 1.5 million employees. The move, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes after the company tested accounting and invoicing automation at about 500 of its nearly 4,600 stores earlier this summer.
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