ML-Implode News - Walmart touts boosting U.S. job count by 10,000

Retail giant Walmart said Tuesday that it will create 10,000 new retail jobs in the U.S. this year, the latest American company to promote its domestic-focused hiring and investment ahead of Friday's transfer of power from President Obama to President-elect Donald Trump.
The new Walmart hires will work at soon-to-be-opened stores, expandedÂ existing stores and e-commerce services, the company said Tuesday. In addition, Walmart saidÂ an estimated 24,000 construction jobs will support its plans to open new stores and remodel existing ones.

This is a bit hollow coming from WalMart, which has pretty clearly reduced the overall job count (by a lot). You can argue that this is "creative destruction" (even though WalMart is basically the largest conduit of cheap foreign-made consumer products into the US), but at a minimum, counting WalMart-created jobs as if they are leading to net job creation is a total farce.

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Walmart touts boosting U.S. job count by 10,000