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Man confesses to ’97 crime, fearing Walmart was messaging him about woman he killed
A North Carolina man traveled to Arizona to confess he killed a woman 17 years ago after he became convinced someone had learned of his crime and began sending him mysterious messages. Those phone calls, text messages, and letters, as it turned out, came from Walmart in an apparent mix-up, reported the Charlotte Observer.
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Split Screen Video of Wal-Mart Shooting w/Audio
In this video you can clearly hear the 911 caller was foolishly feeding the 911 operator a bunch of bullshit that heightened the perceived level of threat the police would encounter. That's not to say there is any shortage of fools in this video...
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Ohio Walmart CCTV captures John Crawford shooting - video
Surveillance footage from an Ohio Walmart store, where police killed a young black man who was holding an unloaded air rifle and talking on his cellphone, shows he was was shot from the side as he moved to run away from advancing officers.
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Walmart Faults Tracy Morgan for Not Wearing Seatbelt During Car Accident
On Monday, Walmart delivered its answer in a New Jersey federal court to 30 Rock actor Tracy Morgan's lawsuit arising from a six-car accident on the New Jersey turnpike. Among nine affirmative defenses, Walmart says that injuries "were caused, in whole or in part, by plaintiffs' failure to properly wear an appropriate available seatbelt restraint device."
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Walmart Owners Backing Campaigns to Limit Rooftop Solar Power
The Walton family, owners of Walmart, donated millions of dollars to organizations opposed to government-backed incentives for solar power production, according to a report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILRS). And, says the report, the family, by way of a solar panel manufacturer that it controls, supported an Arizona regulation allowing the state's largest utility to impose a fee on households and businesses that install rooftop solar panels.
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Walmart pulls “Fat Girl Costumes” section off website
Retail giant Walmart removed a section of its website marketing “Fat Girl Costumes” after getting complaints.
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Wal-Mart's Answer To Apple Pay Has Already Been Hacked
Here's a bad sign for CurrentC, the fledgling mobile payment system in development by a consortium of retailers. CurrentC is sending emails to people who signed up for the beta version of the app warning them "that unauthorized third parties obtained the e-mail addresses of some of you."
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Walmart goes after Chromecast with $25 Vudu Spark
Walmart thinks it can out-price the Google Chromecast, Roku Streaming Stick, and Amazon Fire TV Stick. The mega retailer has quietly put out its very own streaming device, called the Vudu Spark, and it costs just a meagre $24.95, a Walmart representative tells Gigaom. And there's a currently a promotion that will effectively make the device free — Walmart will give you $25 in movie credits over five months when you purchase the streaming stick. The device first leaked from the FCC in November.
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GNC, Target, Wal-Mart, Walgreens accused of selling adulterated ‘herbals’
A warning to herbal supplement users: Those store-brand ginkgo biloba tablets you bought may contain mustard, wheat, radish and other substances decidedly non-herbal in nature, but they’re not likely to contain any actual ginkgo biloba. That’s according to an investigation by the New York State attorney general’s office into store-brand supplements at four national retailers — GNC, Target, Walgreens and Wal-Mart.
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Alabama Wal-Mart manager gets punched in face by shoplifter, loses his job
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...
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Walmart Gives 500,000 Workers A Raise
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.
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WMT settles part of Tracy Morgan crash for $10M
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.
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Workers claim Wal-Mart closed California store in retaliation
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.
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How accurate are Walmart's "Made in the USA" labels?
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.
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Teen Leads Mob In Ransacking Of Georgia Walmart
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
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Walmart Canada hacked, credit card details of 60,000 customers exposed
60,000 customers affected due to Walmart Canada hack
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How Walmart's New Car Seat Will Save Babies' Lives
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...
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Walmart's anti union video has leaked online
Walmart's "associates" have to watch this video about the menace of unions.
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Wal-Mart to stop selling AR-15, other semi-automatic rifles
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.
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Tracy Morgan received $90M from Wal-Mart settlement, comedian claims
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.
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