Wal-Mart cutting about 7,000 back-office store jobs

[...] Making Change at Wal-Mart, a campaign backed by the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union, said displaced employees who do get store jobs will likely take pay cuts, calling the back-office jobs "some of the better positions at Wal-Mart."

Wal-Mart is trying to improve customer service as a way to boost sales in the face of increased competition from traditional and online competitors.

The company just reported its eight straight quarterly increases in revenue at stores opened at least a year and the seventh straight quarterly gain in customer traffic at its Wal-Mart U.S. namesake business.