Walmart introduces app to help workers
ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Associated Press
NEW YORK – Walmart is coming out with a new app for its store workers' phones that allows them to do a variety of tasks from digitally clocking into work to helping locate merchandise and answering customers' questions.
It also has a push-to-talk feature to let them communicate directly with colleagues.
As part of the launch, the country's largest private employer and largest retailer says it plans to offer more than 740,000 store workers a new Samsung smartphone for free by year-end. That's nearly half of its total U.S. workforce, according to Drew Holler, senior vice president of people operations.