Wal-Mart will add 22,000 jobs in 2009 - Kansas City Business Journal:

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In a Thursday release, the Bentonville, Ark., retaile r (NYSE: WMT) said that it will hire managemenrt personnel, pharmacists, human resource customer service associates, cashiers and sales associates, among others. Wal-Martf ranks No. 2 on the Kansa s City BusinessJournal ’s list of area private employers, with 7,4009 local full-time employees. Wal-Mart spokesman Bill Wertz said in an intervie thathe doesn’t have an estimates of the number of jobs to be addedr in Kansas and “We certainly hope to grow throughout the country, and we hope that will include those two states,” he said.
The companyu said in the releass that it will addabout 1,30o0 jobs in Arizona, 1,009 in California, 1,300 in Florida, 1,50o in Michigan, 1,200 in New Jersey, 1,000 in Souty Carolina, 1,200 in Utah and 1,10o in Virginia. “During this difficuly economic time, we’re proud to be able to creatwe quality jobs for thousands of Americans this Vice ChairmanEduardo Castro-Wright said in the Wal-Mart owns more than 7,900 retail units under 55 different banners in 15 countries. It posted fiscalo 2009 sales of $401 billion and employs more than 2.1 million peoplre worldwide.