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Man Makes The Staff At Walmart Lose Their Minds. This Is Genius.
Some men just want to watch the world burn
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Wal-Mart Heirs See $9 Billion Vanish in a Day as Shares Plummet
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...
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Wal-Mart puts the squeeze on suppliers to share its pain as earnings sag
Suppliers of everything from groceries to sports equipment are already being squeezed for price cuts and cost sharing by Wal-Mart Stores .
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'Poverty pay' leads Walmart employees to skip lunch – or steal it from coworkers
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”.
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Walmart’s $10 Smartphone Has Better Specs Than the Original iPhone
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 Now, there are a few reasons why you may not want such a smartphone—for one, it’s running an outdated version of Android that may make it vulnerable to hackers—but there’s no denying that it represents something pretty special.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...
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How Walmart Keeps an Eye on Its Massive Workforce
The retail giant is always watching.
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Wal-Mart to Shut Hundreds of Stores
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.
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Small towns devastated after Wal-Mart Stores Inc decimates mom-and-pop shops, then packs up and leaves: 'They ruined our lives'
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...
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Walmart Closures Leaving Small Towns 'Broken,' Residents Say
Residents say Walmart closings have left their small communities "broken."
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Fired Wal-Mart Worker Who Claimed Discrimination Wins $31M
A jury has awarded more than $31 million in damages to a former Wal-Mart pharmacist in New Hampshire who claimed she was wrongly fired after reporting safety concerns about co-workers dispensing prescriptions. Maureen McPadden was a 13-year employee who reported her concerns to management...
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The Wal-Mart You Don't Know
A gallon-sized jar of whole pickles is something to behold. The jar is the size of a small aquarium. The fat green pickles, floating in swampy juice, look reptilian, their shapes exaggerated by the glass. It weighs 12 pounds, too big to carry with one hand. The gallon jar of pickles is a display of abundance and excess; it is entrancing, and also vaguely unsettling. This is the product that Wal-Mart fell in love with: Vlasic's gallon jar of pickles.
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SWAT: Shooting suspect at Texas Walmart shot, killed by police
AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) -- The person who reportedly started an active shooter situation at an Amarillo Walmart was shot dead by SWAT officers.According to the APD, there were no confirmed victims suffering from gunshot wounds at the store.
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Could Walmart replace shopping carts with robots?
We already know about Walmart’s plan to use drones for delivering goods to the homes of its online shoppers in super-quick time, but what about the customers who still prefer to visit its physical stores? What can it do to improve their shopping experience? One solution may come in the form of Budgee, a basket-carrying robotic helper that’s designed to follow you around the store as you shop.
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Ghost Boxes: Reusing Abandoned Big-Box Superstores Across America
Big-box stores promise convenience and jobs for suburbs and small towns, but have a mixed reputation with designers and citizens. Many see big boxes as icons of unsustainable sprawl, reinforcing car culture with highway-oriented access and expansive parking lots. These boxy buildings not only take up vast amounts of land but often also require infrastructure around them to be overhauled. Later, when their super-sized occupants leave: a giant empty structure is left in their wake, which can be difficult to reuse unless a similar retailer takes its place.
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Jet.com reportedly to be acquired by Walmart for $3 billion
Jet.com will reportedly be acquired by Walmart in a deal said to be worth $3 billion, the culmination of rumors that first made waves last week. Under terms of the deal, Jet cofounder and CEO Marc Lore will remain at his post and will helm Walmart’s U.S. ecommerce operations. Lore is said to be replacing Walmart’s Neil Ashe, who will be departing “after a transitional period.” Launched in 2015, Jet aimed to take on Amazon, Walmart, and other online retail giants by offering a new spin on the shopping club.
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Walmart to cut 7,000 back-office accounting, invoicing jobs
Walmart plans to shed about 7,000 store accounting and invoicing positions as the company moves to automate those processes, though workers will be offered positions elsewhere in their stores, the company confirmed Thursday. The big-box retailer's plans affect less than 1% of its U.S. workforce of 1.5 million employees. The move, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes after the company tested accounting and invoicing automation at about 500 of its nearly 4,600 stores earlier this summer.
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Boy On Scooter Does $1 Million In Damage In Wal-Mart Arson
Police say a 12-year-old boy riding a push scooter set fire to the arts-and-crafts section of a Wal-Mart store in the Southern California desert, leading to losses of more than $1 million.
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No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS
The aloe vera gel many Americans buy to soothe damaged skin contains no evidence of aloe vera at all.
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Walmart to stop selling “Bulletproof: Black Lives Matter” shirts after police protest
The president of the national Fraternal Order of Police, the country’s largest police organization, on Tuesday asked Walmart to stop selling t-shirts and sweatshirts which say “Black Lives Matter” and “Bulletproof” on the department store’s website. On Tuesday night, Walmart said it would remove the shirts which say “Bulletproof,” but not the “Black Lives Matter” shirts.
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Amazon tests food stamps, another breach of Wal-Mart territory
This summer, Amazon will begin accepting food stamps to pay for online grocery orders as part of a pilot program along with six other companies. The two-year program by the U.S. Department of Agriculture could help alleviate what are known as food deserts, areas where residents have little access to fresh food and groceries, while also relieving some of the stigma of using food aid.
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