Apple Retail Stores Seeing Significant Layoffs?

I thought these guys were made of cash? Are they cutting back on retail employees to balance out the costs associated with the raises Foxconn handed out to keep employees of the roofs? Maybe the company is just trimming the fat? Who knows, but it seems like a bad time to be a new employees at Apple. According to one report, all employees at a certain store in the United Kingdom with less than six months of service have been laid off, including a group that had been hired only one month ago and had just completed their training program. New hiring has also been halted, and internal company transfers between stores have been placed on hold.