Residents say Walmart closings have left their small communities "broken."

The Town’n Country grocery in Oriental, North Carolina, a local fixture for 44 years, closed its doors in October after a Wal-Mart store opened for business. Now, three months later — and less than two years after Wal-Mart arrived — the retail giant is pulling up stakes, leaving the community with no grocery store and no pharmacy. Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it was pulling the plug on its smallest Express store format and closing 269 stores globally...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to close 269 stores, including its experimental small-format Express outlets, in a push to streamline the chain that will eliminate 16,000 jobs.

The retail giant is always watching.

Walmart is now selling a TracFone-branded LG smartphone that costs $9.82 (it also ships free if your online order total tops $50). Now, there are a few reasons why you may not want such a smartphone—for one, it’s running an outdated version of Android that may make it vulnerable to hackers—but there’s no denying that it represents something pretty special. For less than $10 (plus the cost of data access) the user gets access to the Google Play app store, giving him or her the power to summon...

Walmart employees are so poor that they are skipping lunch, sharing it or, in some cases, stealing it from their coworkers, some of the company’s workers claimed on Thursday while announcing a fast in protest of the company’s wages. Starting Friday morning, over 100 Walmart associates who are members of Our Walmart, a workers organization, and about a 1,000 supporters will begin a fast to shine light on what they describe as Walmart’s “poverty pay”.

Suppliers of everything from groceries to sports equipment are already being squeezed for price cuts and cost sharing by Wal-Mart Stores .

Watch out for falling fortunes. The four members of the Walton family controlling more than half the shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. had $11 billion of their combined net worth evaporate Wednesday as shares of the retailer plunged on a lower earnings outlook for the coming fiscal year. The billionaire Waltons -- Christy, Jim, Alice and Rob -- have a combined $120 billion fortune, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index...

Some men just want to watch the world burn

A fellow comedian said Friday that Tracy Morgan received a $90 million payout from Wal-Mart after he was seriously injured in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike last year, but the "30 Rock" star's camp quickly denied the claim. Appearing on New York radio station Power 105.1, Damon Wayans casually mentioned the amount while discussing the financial stability of certain comedians in the industry.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N), the United States' top seller of guns and ammunition, said on Wednesday it would stop selling the AR-15 and other semi-automatic rifles because of sluggish demand and focus instead on "hunting and sportsman firearms." Wal-Mart said the decision was unrelated to high-profile incidents involving the rifles, including the killing of 26 students and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2012.

Hoping to stop the fatal phenomenon of kids left alone in hot cars, Walmart just began selling Evenflo’s “smart” new car seat, which reminds drivers there’s a child in the backseat by sounding an alarm when the ignition turns off. In the wake of yet another child tragically left locked alone inside a hot car — a 2-year-old in Kansas, rescued Saturday by a group of strangers after her 23- year-old cousin admitted that “it just slipped [his] mind” that she was asleep...

Walmart's "associates" have to watch this video about the menace of unions.

60,000 customers affected due to Walmart Canada hack

JUNE 30--Led by a teenage boy throwing gang signs, a mob of vandals descended on a Walmart store in Georgia early Sunday and trashed the business in a reported attempt to “see how much damage they co

Americans love to buy items that are made in the USA, but can consumers always trust the labels are accurate? One watchdog group says retailing giant Walmart (WMT) has a number of mistakes on its website, with items listed as "Made in the USA" that actually have packages indicating they were "Made in China." A Walmart spokesman told CBS MoneyWatch that "a small percentage of items" were mislabeled because of coding errors.

Some employees accused Wal-Mart Stores Inc on Friday of closing a location in the Los Angeles area for six months in retaliation for workers demanding for better wages and benefits. The largest U.S. retailer denied the accusation, saying it was temporarily closing five stores in four states to address recurring plumbing problems. The closures include a location in Pico Rivera, California, that has been a center of protests by workers in recent years.

Court papers show that the children of the comedian who was killed in the crash that injured Tracy Morgan won a $10 million settlement from Wal-Mart.

Walmart said Thursday that it will give about 500,000 workers a pay bump. Minimum hourly wages will increase in April to about $9, a $1.75 increase above the federal minimum wage, the retail behemoth said in an earnings release.

Don Watson thought he was just doing his job when he chased and confronted a shoplifter stealing buggies overflowing with merchandise from the Prattville Wal-Mart a month ago. One night while working his regular shift, Watson, who served as the night manager, heard an alarm signaling an emergency door was open and he ran to see what was happening. He spotted a man, who he called a habitual shoplifter, with a buggy outside of the store. "When I caught up to the individual...