The switch to a "hub" system is a poorly veiled attempt for the store to keep track of every minute of every employees time.
Employees are often not given enough time to complete their work and are pushed to work faster constantly, even if they are already working multiple areas.
Favoritism is a huge problem.
Communication about policy changes is horrible, sometimes getting no notice until the day of the change.
If you need any information at all you are told to look it up on the "Wire" an online website for info Wal-Mart has created. Unfortunately, the organization of the Wire is horrible, making it difficult to find any info.
Often they will change something just for the sake of change. Recently they removed all stackbases in the store and built all the endcaps out, claiming this will give customers more room to shop. 4 months later the stackbases come back, with the build out end caps also remaining. So now the customer has less room to shop when the intention was to give the customer more room. A year ago they stopped playing music over the intercom, claiming customers complained about it, but than follow that up by adding advertisement screens on endcaps that play looping commercials that repeat every 60 seconds, that is significantly more annoying than any intercom music.
