Joe Raedle/Getty Images Walmart said it was overstaffed during the most recent quarter, denting profits. Amazon faced the same overstaffing issue in its warehouses during the first quarter. It's a unique problem for two of the nation's largest employers after months of a US labor shortage. Throughout the past several months, businesses across the US shared a common problem: not enough employees.

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