{"id":82222,"date":"2022-08-04T03:09:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T07:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=82222"},"modified":"2022-08-04T03:09:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T07:09:44","slug":"walmart-lays-off-corporate-employees-after-slashing-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2022\/walmart-lays-off-corporate-employees-after-slashing-forecast.html","title":{"rendered":"Walmart lays off corporate employees after slashing forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC)  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/WMT\" target=\"_blank\">Walmart<\/a> has begun to lay off corporate employees, the company confirmed Wednesday, about a week after it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/07\/26\/walmarts-slashed-profit-outlook-sends-warning-about-state-of-the-american-consumer.html\">slashed its profit outlook<\/a> and warned that consumers had pulled back on discretionary spending due to inflation. In a statement to CNBC, the retail giant described the layoffs as a way to \u201cbetter position the company for a strong future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/08\/03\/walmart-lays-off-corporate-employees-after-slashing-forecast.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Walmart has begun to lay off corporate employees, the company confirmed Wednesday, about a week after it slashed its profit outlook and warned that consumers had pulled back on discretionary spending due to inflation. In a statement to CNBC, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82223,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82222\/revisions\/82223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}