My Employer Is Reassigning Me From The Position That I Was Originally Hired To Another Position That I Have No Experience. Is This Legal?

Yes, unless you have a contract with your employer they can reassign you at will. If you were performing as a commissioned sales rep they would have no reason to assign you to warehouse duty.

Many states have what are called "at will" employment which means you can quit without any reason and can be terminated without any reason. You said "they are indirectly telling me to quit". By this I believe you are alluding to what is called "constructive discharge" where working conditions are made so intolerable that a person would feel obliged to quit e.g. They are required to a clown outfit to work. They didn't do this, they have simply offered you the choice of demotion or termination. There is nothing intolerable about working in a store, driving a forklift, or working as a stockman. I did it for years and am not ashamed of it.

Fortune 100 or Fortune 10 billion is irrelevant. The fact that they were large enough to have a place for non-performers and generous enough to not put you on the street says nothing bad about them. Perhaps you were hoping an attorney would smell money and offer to sue them for you? You better collect enough to not need a good job in the future - no employer will touch you with a ten foot pole if you have a history of civil suits against previous employers.

Show them how wrong they were by getting a job with a competitor and then blowing them out of the water with your terrific sales record.

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Ummm… no! This is not legal at all or in other words this is highly unprofessional. You can't assign a person to perform a certain task or a job if he possesses no experience regarding it at all. It is exceedingly unfair!
You unquestionably need to question his decision!

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Thank you for your answers-boris and biostudent. Still need more answers. Once again, Thx.

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