Walmart to Help Associates Get College Degrees

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I believe that Walmart requires managers to have a bachelor's degree. This would certainly allow those who started work without a degree to earn their degree while they worked their way toward manager's eligibility.

Their warehouse system, btw, is MAMOUTH. Remember it includes Sam's Clubs too. My oldest son works in logistics for a grocery distribution center that serves 7 states. He is very well paid considering, but, you can't work your way up beyond managing the warehouse unless you formally study logistics and supply chain. That field is insane btw. COMPLETELY having been disrupted by Amazon, the entire industry is scrambling to find people, train people, and educate them to get in front of this. Ask yourself when was the last time you ordered something online? Expectations were probably that you'd get free shipping and that you'd have it in under a week. The gears that crank that out need very skilled and educated people to run the SYSTEM and innovate. (Not to pick boxes and drive trucks- anyone can learn that)

IF I could convince my oldest son to do so, he'd be earning his micromasters through the MIT edX partnership and traveling to MIT to finish the master's degree. That's considered to be a (the?) top logistics and supply chain program in the country. Someone could REALLY be resourceful by working for Walmart to earn a living while getting a supply chain /logistics undergrad for free and then roll into the micromasters then to MIT. You could be there from zero to hero in 5 years.