Walmart’s online grocery delivery boom is stretching store workers

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• Walmart’s online business is booming, with the bulk of sales fulfilled through local stores.
• The job of picking items for these orders falls to store workers who may pull hundreds of items per shift.
• When a relatively small picking rule change caused a big stir, it highlighted the tension for teams.

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