Walmart Philadelphia

Avalanche of Job Applications Come in to Walmart

Crossborders — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:13:48 +0000

PHILADELPHIA, PA – This Spring, a new Walmart store will open in the Aramingo Crossings Shopping Center, Aramingo Ave. and Butler Street. Many job seekers rejoiced and are rushing to fill over 300 jobs available at the store-and they ARE rushing!

Since its opening on January 23rd, the Hiring Center for Walmart has taken in over 2,500 applications.

According to store manager Bhupit “Bubba” Bohra, the new store will be hiring both full-time and part-time associates. “We are excited to add this Walmart to Philadelphia and bring good jobs with career opportunities to the area,” Bohra said. Bohra began his Walmart career in 2001 as an overnight stocker at a store in Ephrata, Pa.

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Hiring Haven

Ken — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:09:25 +0000

A Wal-Mart is coming to the Aramingo Crossings Shopping Center in Port Richmond. It’s bringing more than 300 to the area.

With nearly 10,000 locations worldwide, it may not be surprising news to learn that in a few months a Wal-Mart store plans to open in the Aramingo Crossings Shopping Center on Aramingo Avenue at Butler Street.

But to hear Bhupit “Bubba” Bohra tell it, it’s not hard to see the potential this store has to create opportunities for residents.

New Philadelphia Walmart is hiring

Greg — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:09:28 +0000

In just a few months a new Walmart store will be open in Philadelphia. First, the company must hire hundreds of workers and applications are now being taken.

Edward Conaway added his name to the list of 2,500 people who’ve already applied for 300 jobs that will become available when the new Walmart opens its doors at the Aramingo Crossings Shopping Center this spring.

Walmart managers are taking applications and conducting interviews in the old Northeastern Hospital building on Allegheny Avenue.

NAFE Names Its ‘Top 50 Companies For Executive Women’

Crossborders — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:11:42 +0000

 The National Association for Female Executives on Wednesday released its list of the “Top 50 Companies for Executive Women.” General Mills, Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble were all listed in the top 10 on that list. Other notable supplier and retail companies included Abbott, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cardinal Health, Colgate-Palmolive, Eli Lilly, Kraft Foods, Merck and Walmart. “The NAFE Top 50 Companies are major employers that are committed to hiring, retaining and promoting executive women,” stated Carol Evans, president of Working Mother Media and CEO of NAFE. “They represent a cross-section of companies that go way beyond lip service in helping succeed. Almost 7-out-of-10 companies require their managers to receive training on how to hire, advance or manage women. Manager accountability is the main ingredient for success.”

A Diet Pyramid for African Americans Created by Boston Nutrition Group

Crossborders — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:38:18 +0000

It may be controversial to suggest that African Americans need a food pyramid tailor-made for them, but then again, this group has experienced the greatest surge in obesity and related illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes. Getting back to home-cooked basic dishes — based on staples from the American South, Caribbean, South America, and, yes, Africa — was the thought behind the new African heritage diet pyramid created by Oldways, a nonprofit nutrition education organization based in Boston. Just like Oldways’ Mediterranean diet pyramid and the federal government’s My Plate, the African diet pyramid focuses on fruits and vegetables — with greens including collard, mustard, and kale taking the most prominent spot at the base of the pyramid, which means they should be eaten at every meal. Fruits such as papayas, bananas, and watermelon, and root vegetables such as sweet potatoes and carrots are directly above and should also be eaten in plentiful amounts. Yesterday, Oldways announced that it received a $100,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation to get the word out about the new pyramid via supermarket tours, cooking classes, and nutrition lectures to be held in Boston and elsewhere.

Read more at Boston.com

The Wal-Mart Foundation Donates $9.5 Million to Promote Minority Healthy Eating

Crossborders — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:23:55 +0000

On Monday, the Wal-Mart Foundation donated $9.5 million in grants to organizations with a shared mission of promoting healthy eating habits. The funding will go toward nutrition education programs and will provide classes focused on cooking and shopping for healthier foods on a budget. A little over a year ago, the company, in conjunction with First Lady Michelle Obama, announced an initiative to provide customers with healthier and more affordable food choices.

To Promote Healthier Food Choices, Walmart Adds Labels

Crossborders — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:11:51 +0000

As part of its promise last year to improve the nutritional quality of the food it sells, Walmart said on Tuesday that it had devised standards to determine what is healthy and would label the foods that meet those standards. The new label, bright green with the words Great for You, will first appear on the retailer’s own Great Value and Marketside food items this spring, as well as on signs around fresh fruits and vegetable displays. But Walmart executives said the company planned to allow other brands to use the label without paying any licensing fee on products that meet the criteria. ”This is not meant to lecture our customers,” Leslie A. Dach, Walmart’s executive vice president for corporate affairs, said in a telephone interview. ”They can buy a dessert when they want to. But when they want to buy a cracker, we can help them steer them to a healthier cracker if that’s what they’re looking for.”

Sam’s Club Gets Down to Heart of the Matter With Free Screenings

Crossborders — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:16:21 +0000

In honor of American Heart Month, Sam’s Club announced it will be hosting free heart health screenings on Feb. 11 at all locations with a pharmacy. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., members and guests can receive total cholesterol, HDL, glucose, body mass index and blood-pressure tests for. During the screenings, Sam’s Club pharmacies also will offer free samples of related items, the company said. Tests are limited to the first 100 participants at each club location. Cholesterol and glucose testing not available in Tennessee, Maryland and Hawaii; cholesterol testing is not available in New Jersey; and glucose testing not available in Pennsylvania.

Wal-Mart Plans Simple Label to Identify Healthier Foods

Crossborders — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:08:03 +0000

Wal-Mart is unveiling a simple icon that it says will help consumers make a snap decision about whether a food is healthy, without delving into the nitty-gritty of the nutrition label. The move by the nation’s biggest retailer to label some food products as “Great For You,” being unveiled Tuesday, could be a significant development in the fight against obesity because of the company’s enormous influence in the marketplace, over both consumers and food vendors eager to sell into the Wal-Mart supply chain. There have been fumbles in the past. In 2009, major food makers backed off a plan to label foods as “smart choices” after the Food and Drug Administration, which has been working on a standard system for such logos, noted that many competing nutrition symbols could be confusing. At the time, some food makers were criticized for trying to market items such as mayonnaise and sugary cereals as “smart choices.”

Walmart To Highlight Healthy Foods

Crossborders — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:26:34 +0000

Walmart is responding to rising demand for healthy food in the US by joining a growing list of food makers and grocers which are using specific labels to highlight products they deem to be good for consumers. The world’s biggest retailer by sales said the initiative would give mothers a simple and reliable way of identifying healthy food, but critics of similar moves by food makers and industry groups have complained that they are unscientific and confusing. The initiative was endorsed by Michelle Obama, the first lady, who is leading a US government drive to fight childhood obesity, and backed Walmart when it launched a broader healthy eating campaign last year. Walmart has turned to health initiatives to burnish its reputation and offset the effect of negative publicity about its impact on workers, suppliers, small retailers and local communities, which has created political obstacles to its expansion into US big cities.