Walmart Inc. is tapping its own employees to become opticians in a bid to ease a growing labor crunch in the $70 billion optical industry.

Walmart Inc. has added a new workforce development program designed to train its employees as opticians, addressing a growing labor shortage in the optical industry.

Walmart (WMT) on Monday said it is launching a program to train its frontline workers as opticians, aiming to address a labor shortage in the optical sector, Bloomberg News reported. The initiative ...

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