Walmart WMT -0.47% will cut some 7,000 accounting and invoicing positions within its U.S. stores as the discount retailer redeploys workers to improve in-store customer service.

The largest U.S. retailer, also the country’s largest private employer, plans to eliminate those jobs over the next several months, the Wall Street Journal wrote on Thursday. Those jobs are typically occupied by long-term and often higher-paid store employees, wrote the Journal, which was first to report the news.

The benefit for Walmart is that it could then put more workers on the floor helping customers, something infinitely more valuable to the retailer as it looks to give people a reason to shop at its stores rather than on Amazon.com AMZN 0.23% A company spokesperson confirmed that Walmart expects the affected employees are likely to find customer-facing roles at the Walmart store.

The move follows a test earlier this summer at 500 stores, mostly west of Colorado, to eliminate three administrative jobs related to accounting and invoicing at each store and see if those functions could be replaced by workers in the home office and by machines. The jobs being eliminated involve counting cash or managing invoices for suppliers. Invoicing will be handled by a central office at company headquarters in Arkansas, while money will be counted at each store by a “cash recycler” machine.