Why does Walmart hire out 3rd party companies?

That's the biggie right there. Many grocery warehouses do the same; outsource the transportation department to outside trucking companies to keep the Teamsters or other unions out.

 

not to mention how much freight walmart moves.

there's no way they could have enough trucks of their own to keep up. if they did, they'd probably be the largest trucking company in the world.

i bet, out of all the trucks out on the road. 20% are probably hauling walmart freight.

 

This.

Used to unload trucks at a Walmart store. The very first video we were showed in orientation wasn't a safety video nor a welcome video. It was an anti union video. That was the very first thing shown to new hires.

For my store it was a Mishmash of drivers. Walmart drivers would bring the dry vans of general merchandise and swift or cr England would bring the reefers with frozen and dairy. Then another Walmart driver would show up at like 0400 in the morning with meats.

I'm sure it does boil down to cost and efficiency, but at the end of the day all those outside carriers are a reminder to Walmart drivers that you can be replaced.

Walmart used to have butchers in their stores, until one store successfully unionized the butcher department. Walmart swiftly simply moved to prepackaged meat nationwide and all butchers got moved to other departments or quit.

There are very few companies as vigilante towards unions as Walmart.

unloader

 

Temp services are very popular now with all types of companies. They keep the unions out and don't have to keep people on the payroll all the time when they're not needed all the time.

 

Walmart has a massive supply chain.. 3-4000 stores and growing, tons of DC.. Walmart is really good at what it does... If your business revolves around breaking down and outsourcing the manufacturing industry and milking the government, you invest your cash in that and let somone else ship your crap.

 

Not just companies.. the City of Colorado Springs leans heavily on them, and I'm sure they're not the only ones.

 

Many employees bring this on themselves. They get comfortable with their full time job, then start talking in the break room about how all the supervisors are out to get them so they need union protection. They are so short sighted they don't realize they can be replaced by a temp.

 

I usually bring in P and G loads to the WM DCs.

 

I think the bigger question is ... why do Walmart employee drivers/trucks ONLY move goods from general merchandise DC's, and outside carriers haul ALL grocery DC loads.

 

In the northeast, Pottstown or Pottsville, PA... I get em confused hauls grocery out of their DC's. A couple places in Maine does this as well.

Most Wal Mart trucks haul dry groceries outta of DC's just the refrigerated freight left to the Common Carriers but outta of those DC's I just mentioned Wal-Mart fleet guys do both