Walmart cut or relocated 1,100 corporate workers in 2026, with the biggest round landing May 12 when the retailer told roughly 1,000 staff across Global Tech, e-commerce fulfillment, and Walmart Connect, its advertising business, that their jobs were being eliminated or moved. The structural review was led by Daniel Danker, head of global AI acceleration, and Suresh Kumar, head of global technology, who pitched the cuts as a way to bind technology and AI product teams more tightly together.
The reorganization sits inside a broader AI-led digital push under CEO John Furner aimed at competing with Amazon, Costco, and Aldi. Affected employees were given the option to apply for open roles internally, but many were asked to relocate to Bentonville, Arkansas or Northern California, with the practical choice framed as relocate or leave. The May round came on top of an earlier 100-person Hoboken, New Jersey cut tied to the same consolidation strategy, bringing 2026 totals to about 1,100 corporate jobs cut or moved out of just 0.1% of a 2.1 million-person workforce.