Wal-Mart plans IT back office in Bangalore

Source: Economic Times India

20 Jun, 2008, 0327 hrs IST

BANGALORE: A new address may be added to Bangalore’s already-crowded IT landscape. Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retailer, is mulling a captive IT/ITeS unit in India’s tech capital, with the potential to create several hundred jobs, sources said.

The $388-billion retail giant, based in Bentonville in the US, has outsourcing ties with IT vendors like Infosys and has done a recce for developing a captive shared service centre to cater to multiple functions in its worldwide operations. Besides IT development and maintenance, a shared service centre supports different parts of a global enterprise such as HR, finance and accounting.

Sources said Wal-Mart looked at a few potential locations before more or less zeroing in on Bangalore. While a definite call on the captive unit is still pending, Wal-Mart is believed to have scouted for senior tech personnel to take the idea forward.




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Guess Walmart will be handing pink slips out with the "smiles."

I never shop there!

Oh yeah, there are millions of reasons!

Walmart: A Celebration . . . of Mediocrity!
Walmart: A Celebration . . . of Outsourcing!

"Local Cost seems a bit high?"
:hi:

I hear they can be gotten a lot cheaper....

For that matter why don't they just pack up and ship all the stupid Wally Worlds over to India?

Wal-Mart Faces Protests Over Entry To India

Brand recognition isn’t always fun, as retailing giant Wal-Mart is finding out in India. Days after it signed an agreement with Bharti Enterprises to enter the Indian market, several thousand retailers across the country held vocal protests against its plans.

In major cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Calcutta, hundreds of farmers and small-scale retailers took to the streets near markets where vegetable sellers usually ply their trade. Media reports from some cities said protesters had been bused in from neighboring areas to ensure the movement didn’t lose any of its fervor. Predictably, there was some burning of effigies.

http://www.forbes.com/2007/08/10/walmart-retail-india-face-markets-cx_rd_0810autofacescan01.html

So they learned by watching us self destruct eh? Good for them. Now give us back our jobs and we'll call it even ;)

They didn't take our jobs, our greedy ass Corporations sent jobs over there....along with the help of this administration.

But still I want them back.

I think Wal-mart should move a bunch of offices over to India, hire a shit load of of the "locals" to work for about a year at a very competitive wage (just enough to get their talent levels to be built up nicely), then bring in a bunch of Vietnamese people, working at 1/2 the wage, on the Indian guest worker program to be trained by the people that hold the current jobs (and threaten that if they don't, they will lose any form of severance package)... fire all the Indian IT workers, and tell the entire population that there isn't any talent in India so we must bring in some of the finest talent from Vietnam... Have Sanjay, and maybe even Bill Gates, testify to the Indian government that there just is not enough talented people to fill these positions, so they have to allow more every year... Then we can tell all these displaced IT workers to go back to college and get some up-to-date skills (without any way to afford it, let alone eat!)... Then the Vietnamese will get their chance to tell the Indians how much smarter they are than their prior Indian counterparts...

Capitalism without morals...ah, the beauty.

These companies are so stupid.

I can't tell you how many times I've read on this very board how badly Wal Mart treats its employees. Sounds like they're saving a few hundred Americans from the hell that is working for Wal Mart. I'm not sure how I should react: apparently it really sucks to work for Wal Mart. However, if the jobs are being sent out of the country, then Wal Mart is suddenly a great place to work and we should be keeping those jobs in the US. :shrug:

even if walmart sucks and walks all over there enployees , those jobs are being worked by americans with familys that have no other place to work , so your thoughts don't hold water , we need all the jobs back we have lost to other countrys asp

Always.

:(

probably to pay for the higher gas and food prices.

Their Walmart has seen an increase in business as they live in a rural area and less people in her town are choosing to drive further for the non-Walmart alternatives.

to find a pair of women's underpants unless you go to Walmart.