150 AXED: At Walmart optical lab.

40/29 reports the layoff of 150 workers at a Walmart optical lab. The company statement referred to “changing business needs.”

The company release carried the usual boilerplate about efforts to assist displaced workers.

Of possible interest: When Walmart laid off 91 at a Dallas optical lab on account of automation.

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