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With the economy suffering across the country, many people lack the ability to spend money on necessary goods. Because of this, many retailers have had to cut jobs in order to keep their profit margins up. Throughout the nation there has been a decline in the number of people employed by this industry.

Despite this, one large-scale retailer is actually benefiting from the rest of the country’s need to tighten their belts. Wal-Mart’s already loyal customer basis has grown as people search for a way to save money wherever they can, which means the company needs to hire new workers so that they can expand. This means new positions, including 1,300 jobs in Florida, according to a recent press release put out by the company.

Wal-Mart announced last October that the company hopes to open somewhere between 142 and 157 new or expanded stores throughout the country before the end of the 2010 fiscal year. As part of this plan, the company will have to hire a large number of new workers.

“During this difficult economic time, we’re proud to be able to create quality jobs for thousands of Americans this year,” said Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.’s vice chairman Eduardo Castro-Wright in the release. “At Walmart, we offer competitive pay and benefits and real opportunities for our associates to advance and build careers. Job creation is just one way in which we’re working hard every day to help people across this country live better.”

In order to run these new or expanded locations, Wal-mart says it will have to hire 22,000 new workers. Of these positions the company expects to create 1,500 in Michigan. Another 1,300 are planned for both Arizona and Florida. Stores in New Jersey and Utah will each receive 1,200 new jobs. Another 1,100 job seekers in Virginia will be hired for new positions. Several other states will see the creation of another 1,000 jobs individually including: California and South Carolina. The company has not yet released where the remaining jobs will be created.

Positions the company will be hiring for are varied. According to the press release they include: store management, pharmacists, human resource managers, customer service associates, cashiers, sales associates and several other jobs.

Many of the positions, both full-time and part-time, come with benefits including: healthcare, profit sharing, 401 (k) contributions, stock purchase plan and an employee discount on merchandise sold at Wal-Mart. Even those who did not contribute to their own 401 (k) and profit sharing plans in 2008 still received 4 percent of their income placed in to these accounts from the company, as long as the employee had been with Wal-Mart for a year, according to the press release

Those interested in working for this company should check out it’s website or visit a nearby store’s career portal, which is usually located in the customer service area

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