Now I'm thinking this is just another accelerated attrition process to reduce headcount. However, if the vaxx is an IQ test, as some say, Walmart just got dumber.
They can get away with it in Bentonville since it is basically a company town. Besides being, as you said, a headcount attrition tool the resumes of those they would want to keep could start flying and linkedin.com networks being burned up.
My sister-in-law lives very near there in the corner of SW Mo.
Been a hotbed of COVID lately, unfortunately. I think a lot of it comes from Branson.