Walmart is touting Lancaster, where it has 500 job openings, as a better place to work.
Walmart is closing its Fort Worth e-commerce fulfillment center next year and is offering its workers there a one-time $7,500 bonus to transfer to itsDallas-Fort Worth’s jobless rate fell to 3.9% in SeptemberAbout 350 employees still work at the Fort Worth facility at 5300 Westport Parkway where operations are ramping down for an anticipated closing in early February, said Walmart spokeswoman Anne Hatfield.
The 1.5-million-square-foot highly automated fulfillment center with processes powered by robotics has the capacity to fill twice as many orders as the Fort Worth facility. The average pay at the Lancaster facility is $23 an hour, and its starting pay of $21.15 an hour is $1.15 more an hour than at Walmart’s other local warehouses, Hatfield said.When it opened in 2013, the Fort Worth facility was Walmart’s first e-commerce warehouse in Texas. Many workers have already moved to the Lancaster facility., Staff writer. Maria Halkias has covered the retail scene for The Dallas Morning News since 1993.
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