“What you’re basically describing is a new Walmart organization that has added an extra layer of middle management (ZMS position), which I’m guessing will end up as clipboard-toting status-takers, and is attempting to institute more centralized control & decision making, removing the local ability to make decisions (like hiring, stock selection, etc.) that local personnel think are required to make their store more successful.”
Pretty much. I work with a lady whose husband was a upper level manager of some sort for Wal Mart. They’ve hired in a marketing guru whose sole aim is to turn Wal Mart into Target. In the restructuring of the management, many of the upper level managers were fired. Oh, they were given the chose to “apply” for other positions within the company but for many that would entail having to pack up and move to another state entirely.
I hate the Great VAlue crap, won’t buy it.
Why? Like it or not, Walmart is bigger and more successful than Target. Obviously they must have been doing SOMETHING right over the years to get that way.
This sounds like the Obama Syndrome. Put someone at the top of your #1 industry/world leading organization/country/whatever who hates it, wants to destroy what made it successful, and wants to tear it down by copying less successful wanna-be competitors. Self-loathing is such a disease.