Tracy Maple says, “E-commerce teams throughout Wal-Mart’s operations are affected, says Marc Lore, Jet.com founder and Wal-Mart’s new head of e-commerce.

E-commerce continues to drive change at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and the most recent restructuring involves the loss of about 200 jobs within its U.S. e-commerce team.

A memo sent Tuesday to Wal-Mart employees from Marc Lore, the retailer’s president and CEO of U.S. e-commerce, informed staff of the cuts. “We’ve made the hard decision to eliminate around 200 positions today. These changes touch teams across the U.S. e-commerce organization,” Lore wrote in the email.

Wal-Mart, based in Bentonville, AR, houses most of its e-commerce technicians at its @WalmartLabs headquarters in San Bruno, Calif. Online marketplace Jet.com, founded by Lore and now owned by Wal-Mart, is based in New Jersey. Wal-Mart, No. 4 in the Internet Retailer 2016 Top 500 Guide, in August announced it was buying Jet for $3.3 billion and naming Lore head of Wal-Mart’s e-commerce operations.

“As difficult as this decision is, I know it’s the right one,” Lore’s email from Tuesday states. “We have a clear strategy. We’ve structured the team for speed and simplicity. We’re building an organization with the right talent and experience”.

Wal-Mart’s strategy shift comes with 200 e-commerce job cuts

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