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VR and hugs: What Ivanka Trump learned during her visit to Walmart's training academy in Mesquite
dallasnews.com ^ | Maria Halkias

Posted on 09/23/2018 10:05:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin

When she was out in the store, employees and customers crowded around with their shopping baskets to see the first daughter, whose official title is adviser to President Donald Trump. One of her main missions is to bring a spotlight to workforce development programs that prepare today's workers for the future.

But here among the people, she was just Ivanka. She's a hugger and cradled a few employees who had just talked about how Walmart gave them opportunities they didn't think they would have. Others were simply happy to see her in the store.

Trump even tried out a virtual reality headset that Walmart uses in some classes. Andy Trainor, senior director of academies, said virtual reality is used to instruct employees on a variety of store duties, including some things trainers would rather not intentionally replicate, such as a big food spill. Test scores rise about 10 percent after VR sets are used, Trainor said.

McMillon and Trump took no questions from reporters, or employees for that matter, even though Walmart has been actively lobbying the White House to limit items included in the latest round of tariffs on $200 billion worth of goods from China.

(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ivanka; walmart

1 posted on 09/23/2018 10:05:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Walmart employee Kandice Marr poses with first daughter Ivanka Trump as she visits the Walmart off Highway 80 in Mesquite to participate in a tour and discussion with Walmart Academy students and facilitators, and employees at the store, photographed on Thursday, September 20, 2018.
(Louis DeLuca/The Dallas Morning News) (Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer)

2 posted on 09/23/2018 10:07:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s nice. LOL I approve of her wardrobe choices too.


3 posted on 09/23/2018 10:16:22 AM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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To: BenLurkin

She’s a pretty girl, no doubt about that.


4 posted on 09/23/2018 10:42:07 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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