Wal-Mart/Sam's Club Lay Off 11,200 Employees

From Fox News: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Sunday it is cutting about 11,200 jobs at its Sam's Club warehouse division as it outsources in-store product sampling to marketing company Shopper Events in an effort to win more customers and boost lagging sales.
The terminations represent about 10 percent of the warehouse club operator's 110,000 staffers across its 600 stores. About 10,000 members of the demonstration department, most part-time workers, were let go. The company also cut its new business membership http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4994405161429545698&postID=3280349631604357689representative positions, affecting about 2 staffers per store, or about 1,200 staffers in total.
If you have ever been to a Sam's Club, you were often given free samples. now those jobs are gone and out sourced to another company.
My guess is that most of the employees, if they wanted, will find jobs within Wal-Mart, if they choose to take those positions that are open.
Sigh. Here I am, wanting to work fewer hours and am given more hours than I want to work, and these poor folks may be laid off. Sad.