Home improvement retailer Lowe's has told thousands of workers that their jobs are being eliminated.
The company is eliminating thousands of maintenance and assembly worker jobs and outsourcing them to third-party companies.An employee organizes buckets for sale inside a Lowe's Cos. store in Burbank, California.has told thousands of workers that their jobs are being eliminated.
The company plans to outsource jobs of maintenance and assembly workers to third-party companies. The assembly workers put together products such as wheelbarrows and grills. "We are moving to third-party assemblers and facility services to allow Lowe's store associates to spend more time on the sales floor serving customers. Associates who were in these positions will be given transition pay and have the opportunity to apply for open roles at Lowe's," the company said in a statement to CNBC.The company said in a securities filing earlier this year that, as of Feb. 1, it had roughly 190,000 full-time employees and another 110,000 part-time workers.
Lowe's has added jobs outside of its traditional retail centers. The company announced in April that it isThe company's stock, which has a market value of $78 billion, was trading down nearly 2% on Thursday afternoon. Lowe's shares are up nearly 8% since the start of the year.to reduce costs. The company said it currently has 1,725 stores in the United States.more than 7,000 store closures have been announced by U.S.
, according to a tracking done by Coresight Research. And the tally could top 12,000 by the end the year, setting a new record, Coresight says. Last year, Coresight tracked 5,524 store closures, down more than 30% from an all-time high of 8,139 closures announced in 2017.
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