Walmart News
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Walmart intends to shed 7,000 jobs in its American stores in the next few months. Employees will be offered employment elsewhere in the stores although many of these jobs will pay less.
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Walmart Canada has joined with No Frills and Costco on a list of Canadian retailers that have stopped accepting Visa cards from their customers, citing what they call "unacceptably high" transaction fees.
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Walmart announced plans to build and operate its own dairy processing plan. The goal is to supply its own line of milk to hundreds of stores in 2017.
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One year ago, members of an Oklahoma youth football team watched their football field transform from grass to concrete when a Walmart Express moved in. In less than a year the store has closed, and the team wants their field restored.
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Walmart has announced today that it will be closing 269 of its aproximately 11,600 stories worldwide. Roughly half of the store closures will be in the United States and many others in Brazil.
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On Friday Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced plans to close 269 stores in the U.S. and globally. The closures come after an active review of the nearly 11,600 stores worldwide, taking into account a number of factors.
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Myrtle Beach -
A 23-year-old South Carolina woman was arrested after it is alleged she assaulted two Walmart loss prevention officers and a customer while she was leaving the store after stealing several items.
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A couple in Michigan became engaged at a Walmart store, and afterwards they decided the best way to celebrate was to shoplift from the store.
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New York -
Smaller crowds and fewer unruly bargain-hunters made the start of the holiday shopping season seem almost civilized, reports from around the country appear to indicate.
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Walmart has hired an intelligence-gathering team from Lockheed Martin, one of the biggest defense contracting companies in the world, to survey its employees and keep track of union activity, Bloomberg's Susan Berfield reports.
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Foreclosures and short sales dropped to 6 percent in October, down from 9 percent a year ago, and the lowest level since the National Association of Realtors stared tracking distressed sales in October 2008.
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It's still difficult to find a decent smartphone when on a restricted budget, especially if you only have $10. However, Walmart is now selling an Android phone for exactly that price and, as a basic handset, it doesn't even look too bad.
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And the IMF has a point. The Fed may be anxious to raise rates but for all their talk they haven’t rolled out the data to back that position.
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Tupelo -
A Mississippi man, upset that Walmart no longer sells Confederate flags, allegedly tossed a bomb inside one of the big box stores in Tupelo, early Sunday.
Marshall W. Leonard, 61, was charged on Tuesday afternoon with planting an explosive device.
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Ever hear something like "She thinks that as the head cheerleader that her shit doesn't stink and smells like roses?" Well it just might be true. A viral video and is about to change all that and will make your crap smell like roses.
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The government announced there will be no cost-of-living (COLA) increase in their benefits next year. The difference would mean an average of a little more than $500 a year in Social Security benefits.
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Doug McMillon, Walmart’s chief executive, said the company needed to invest to return to growth. McMillon said: “Retail history is very clear. Those that are unwilling or unable to change go away.
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The U.S. will face a shortage of nearly 50,000 truck drivers by the end of this year, according to a report by the American Trucking Associations (ATA). That's a sharp uptick from only two years ago when the shortage was pegged at 30,000 drivers.
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Over the last few months, Walmart has been increasing pay for entry-level workers, so all workers were making at least $9 per hour.
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Amazon’s decision to announce a Black Friday-like sale called Prime Day on July 15 has triggered an avalanche of competing retailers with their own online deals.
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Macon -
A group of 40 to 50 teenagers attending a party in Macon, Georgia's Southside decided to trash a Walmart in an attempt to “see how much damage they could cause,” local police allege.
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Slidell -
A man went to a Walmart store and was able to get an ISIS cake made, but at another Walmart store, they refused to make a Confederate flag cake.
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Walmart accused of systematically routing profits through tax havens such as Luxembourg, in order to reduce their tax liabilities.
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Wal-Mart, one of the biggest employers in the world and a company that enjoyed a net income of $15.4 billion in 2015, has been found guilty of not paying the minimum wage in California.
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On Friday morning, retail giant, Walmart, along with Sam's Club, announced they wanted their food suppliers to put an end to the inhumane treatment of animals and the overuse of antibiotics for growth purposes.
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Sacramento -
Starbucks is not alone in being criticized for sourcing its bottled water from drought-stricken California. Wal-Mart is now awash in complaints about the company's Great Value brand bottled water. It comes from Sacramento's water supply.
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Wal-Mart suddenly closed five stores in four states on Monday for alleged plumbing problems.
The closures could last up to six months and affect roughly 2,200 workers in Texas, California, Oklahoma, and Florida, CNN Money reports.
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Ronda Rousey, the UFC women's bantamweight champion, has a new memoir coming out in May. However, don't expect to find the book in Walmart stores.
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Prattville -
Don Watson thought he was just doing what he was supposed to do when he chased down and confronted a shoplifter who was stealing buggies chock full of merchandise from a Wal-Mart in Prattville, Alabama last month.
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2014 saw some changes on the leaderboard of the world's richest people. But they all have some things in common we common folk can learn from in order to get rich, or more likely die trying.
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Walmart Image
Wal-Mart's Great Value bottled water is sourced from the Sacramento, California municipal water supply. YouTube
Sam Walton's red and white 1979 Ford half-ton pickup truck. Walmart Visitor Center. Bentonville, Ark.
Our Walmart demonstration Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, at the Walmart Home Office in Bentonville, Ark. Marc F. Henning
Asda, part of Walmart, selling bottled tap water sharing shelves with premium mineral and spring water brands.
Wal-Mart in Mérida adam d from DFW, Texas, USA
WalMart is being criticized for sourcing bottled water in drought-hit California. — Photo shows WalMart's 35 bottle Value packs of purified drinking water, 16.9 fl oz, 35 count. Digital Journal
Walmart even had small Christmas trees for the budget-minded
A map of Walmart subsidiaries and where they are located Americans for Tax Fairness
Walmart on Campus. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark.
Wal-Mart Supercenter Wal-Mart
Aftermath of May 22 tornado in Joplin, MO. Courtesy of Grant Deardorff
UA grounds and parking lots were transformed into activity areas for Walmart shareholders. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark.
Screenshot of Terry Earsing's comment that appeared under his photo of two Muslim women wearing traditional garb.
Spark Cafe at Walmart Visitor Center. Bentonville, Ark.
Walmart on Campus. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark.
Walmart Home Office, the headquarters of Wal-Mart - Bentonville, Arkansas Wikimedia
The flag of Mississippi, with the Confederate emblem on the left. Wikimedia Commons
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