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Meet the American Nomads of Walmart's Plentiful Parking Lots
The two seaprate Walmart parking lots in Flagstaff, Arizona are well-known stop offs for travelers. This past summer photographer Nolan Conway spent several days making a series of portraits of both the overnighters and the people who sometimes stay longer and make these asphalt grids a temporary home.
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Walmart Employees Organize Food Drive ... for Other Walmart Employees
Walmart Employees Organize Food Drive ... for Other Walmart Employees
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Ashton Kutcher Gets in Heated Twitter War with Walmart
Ashton Kutcher faced off with retail giant Walmart in a vigorous debate on Twitter over their notoriously low wages earlier today. Kutcher initiated the battle by tweeting about the disheartening news of an Ohio Walmart that took up an employee-to-employee food charity collection “so associates in need can enjoy Thanksgiving dinner.”
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Wal-Mart arrests could fuel “a new political movement of the disenfranchised,” Grayson tells Salon
Firebrand Congressman Alan Grayson hailed Black Friday civil disobedience in an afternoon interview, saying the protests by Wal-Mart workers and supporters show “the dissatisfaction of the middle class” since the 2008 financial crash “coming to a slow boil.”
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America Finds a New Thanksgiving Tradition in #WalmartFights
Not only are Black Friday sales less than they’re cracked up to be, the day-after-Thanksgiving national shop-a-thon is getting dangerous. Starting late on Thursday night, Anonymous-linked Twitter account @YourAnonNews began encouraging Twitter users to document fights seen outside retailers open for for the holiday using the hashtag #WalmartFights.
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Arizona man banned from Walmart for life for attempting to price-match
An Arizona man says he has found out the hard way just how to get banned from Walmart for life. Joe Cantrell loves to ad match. He goes through circulars to find the biggest discounts, and then goes to Walmart.
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Amazon Has Jedi Mind-Tricked You Into Forgetting It's Pretty Much Walmart
Amazon.com is the best-loved company in America, despite being very similar to one of the least-loved companies in America: Walmart. The Internet megastore had the best public image of any U.S. company in 2013, according to a study released on Monday by YouGov, a market-research firm based in the U.K. YouGov surveyed about 1.2 million people online over the course of 2013 to come up with its rankings, which confirm earlier research
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Introducing the WAVE concept truck
The Walmart Advanced Vehicle Experience, or WAVE, concept truck is the latest in our fleet efficiency program. The one-of-a-kind prototype offers a whole package of firsts. The tractor has very advanced aerodynamics and is powered by a prototype advanced turbine-powered, range-extending series hybrid powertrain. The trailer is made almost exclusively with carbon fiber, saving around 4,000 pounds which can then be used to carry more freight.
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How Many of the Groceries Sold at Walmart Would Be Banned at Whole Foods?
Whole Foods, one of the largest health-conscious grocery stores in America, maintains a list of “Unacceptable Ingredients for Food.” The store’s blacklist is 78 ingredients long and contains many well-known villains in the eyes of health-conscious eaters—aspartame, MSG, and high fructose corn syrup, to name a few.
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Hackers Leak Walmart’s Guide on How to Silence Workers • Making Change at Walmart
Yesterday, Occupy Wall Street published a number of Walmart’s internal training materials on how to discourage workers from coming together for action. The documents, demanding loyalty and that all signs of worker dissatisfaction be reported immediately, “would sound right at home in a training manual for prison guards, or as text from Brave New World,” in the words of Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan.
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Family hallucinates after eating LSD-tainted meat
Police are investigating an incident involving a Tampa , Fla., family who reported having hallucinations after eating meat found to be tainted with LSD last week bought at Wal Mart.
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Next up for disruption: the grocery business
The logistics of "last mile" food delivery and the thin margins in the grocery business delayed the inevitable, but capital is finally pouring into online grocery shopping.
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The Walmart-Free City
In October, the city council of Portland, Oregon, in between updating the payroll system for the police honor guard and changing the duties of the golf advisory committee, adopted a resolution banning Walmart—and Walmart alone— from the city’s investment portfolio. The resolution, unanimously approved, cited an anonymous executive who was quoted in Charles Fishman’s 2006 book, “The Wal-Mart Effect,” saying, “They have killed free-market capitalism in America.”
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Walmart's 'Made in USA' push exposes strains of manufacturing rebirth
When Walmart pledged last year to buy an extra $250 billion in U.S.-made goods over the next decade, it appeared to be just what was needed to help move America's putative manufacturing renaissance
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Walmart planned for endangered forest lands in South Florida
The University of Miami sold land this month to a developer planning a strip mall and apartments for the largest remaining intact stand of pine rockland.
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Why don't ice cream sandwiches melt anymore?
A mom of two young children is wondering: What's in ice cream sandwiches these days? Christie Watson's kids love eating ice cream. But one recent morning, she saw an uneaten ice cream sandwich sitting on her patio table. When she looked closer, she couldn't believe what she was seeing.
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Wall Street Analysts Predict The Slow Demise Of Walmart And Target
The end of the big-box store era may soon be upon us. That’s the message of a research note published by Goldman Sachs analysts on Tuesday cutting their investment rating on shares of Walmart. Shoppers are increasingly turning to the web or to smaller, more conveniently located stores, cutting into the market share of big-box retailers like Walmart and Target, the analysts wrote.
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Cops shoot and kill man holding toy gun in Walmart
A young man holding a toy rifle in a Walmart was shot and killed on Tuesday by police in the Dayton suburb of Beavercreek, Ohio, according to Raw Story. John Crawford, 22, was carrying a toy gun he picked up in the store, alarming two other shoppers.
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Apple Pay Takes Major Hit, Wal-Mart and Best Buy Will Not Use System
You win some, you lose some. That’s all Apple can really say after Wal-Mart and Best Buy announced that they would not be implementing the scanners necessary for Apple Pay to be used in their stores. Apple Pay uses a near field communication (NFC) to connect with the latest iPhone to allow the user to make purchases from the device instead of using a card.
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Walmart fined $66,000 for levying fake New York 'sugar tax' on soda
New York’s attorney general has settled a false advertising investigation at Walmart, saying stores were charging a nonexistent “sugar tax” on soda. The attorney general’s office says the retail chain launched a national sale in June advertising Coca-Cola 12-packs for $3, but consumers at 117 Wal-Mart stores in New York were routinely charged $3.50.
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