In-depth retail training is rare enough that it makes news when the largest companies undertake it.
Walmart was a pretty mature company — indeed, the largest in the world — when it set about developing 200 employee training centers across the U.S., as part of a nearly $3 billion investment in its workforce. By last spring, more than 50,000 store associates had completed the retail giant’s training program and nearly a quarter million more were on pace to do so in 2017. But even as employees take away new skills, some have said that their personal economic prospects were not improved by Walmart’s initiatives.
