MAJOR US retailer Walmart is asking around 16,000 pharmacists to reduce their working hours to cut costs.
A report in Reuters stated that "senior Walmart field leadership asked 20 market leaders ... to start asking pharmacists to voluntarily reduce their base salary hours", during a May meeting.
According to Walmart, its pharmacists earn around $140,000 a year base salary.
Walmart has already scaled back operating hours for more than 4,500 pharmacies across the country by two hours amid a shortage of pharmacists. pharmacy technicians that began during the pandemic.
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