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Job alert: Walmart to hire 4,000 employees, details inside

The move will help Walmart to be in neck and neck competition with its rival Amazon

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US retail gaint, Walmart will reportedly hire around 1,000 staff in India for its technological operations. The move will help Walmart to be in neck and neck competition with its rival Amazon. Presently, Walmart has technology based options in Bengaluru and Gurugram, both the cities have around 1800 employees in the concerned department. 

“One of things: we are doing a lot different. We have Walmart Labs, which is ecommerce. You have My Group which is global business services. We are trying to be more product-oriented. We have taken whole projects and moved them over to drive the Indian ownership of the product. We think that is helping but this will help even more (in retaining talent),” Walmart chief information officer Clay Johnson told the Economic Times. 

Tagging Uttar Pradesh as a priority growth state, Walmart India earlier had said that it expects to create at least 30,000 local jobs by setting up 15 stores in the state.

Walmart India, which already runs four Cash and Carry stores in UP, recently launched a fulfilment centre (FC) in Lucknow, which created 1,500 new skilled jobs.

In the UP Investment Summit held earlier this year, Walmart India had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the state government to open 15 wholesale Cash and Carry stores.

"Each store is likely to create 2,000 direct and indirect jobs, thereby generating at least 30,000 local jobs in the state," Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Rajneesh Kumar who represented Walmart India in the Investment Summit, told PTI from Mumbai.

Walmart India will attend the ground breaking ceremony here on Sunday where Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will take stock of the progress in implementation of the MoUs signed during the UP Investment Summit.

The mega ground breaking event is billed to see launch of various projects worth Rs 60,000 crore by large companies like Walmart, Reliance, Adani, Mahindra, PayTm, TCS and GAIL.

When PM Modi will lay one brick here in Lucknow, ground-breaking for the projects would be done digitally in the districts concerned, said UP Minister for Industries Satish Mahana.

Kumar, who will be present at the ground breaking ceremony on Sunday, said, "UP is a priority growth state for us. Walmart is making deep investment in agriculture supply chain, enhancing small farmers capabilities and sourcing from them for its stores in UP and other states." Through our Cash and Carry stores and FC in Lucknow, we are not only creating new jobs, but supporting and enabling small kiranas, farmers and local SME suppliers to succeed, he said.

"We are delighted to bring best practices in retail to our kiranas, best practices in farming and food safety to our farmers and SME suppliers," he added.

We are confident of making a difference to the lives of lakhs of farmers, kiranas and local suppliers as we grow our business in line with government vision of bringing inclusive prosperity, Kumar said.

In addition to existing stores and FCs at Lucknow, Agra and Meerut, the company is bringing its wholesale Cash and Carry stores to Varanasi, Kanpur, Allahabad, Moradabad, Saharanpur, Gorakhpur and other cities.

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