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Walmart to Raise Age to Buy Guns and Ammunition to 21
Walmart joined Dick’s Sporting Goods as the second major retailer to change its firearms policy on Wednesday amid a national debate on guns after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
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Walmart says it will raise age restriction to 21 for gun purchases
Walmart announced Wednesday that it is raising its age restriction to 21 for firearm and ammunition purchases. The company said in its statement that it made the decision in light of recent events and will try to implement this change "as quickly as possible." Walmart also pointed out that in 2015 it ended sales of certain sporting rifles like the AR-15. The company also said it doesn't sell accessories like bump stocks or high-capacity magazines.
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Whistleblower says Walmart, eyeing Amazon, cheated on e-commerce
Walmart Inc was sued on Thursday by a former executive who accused the world's largest retailer of issuing misleading e-commerce results, amid growing pressure from Amazon.com Inc , and firing him for complaining about it.
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Walmart Launches Small Army Of Autonomous Scanning Robots
Artificial intelligence will soon be put to work at Walmart stores around the country.
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Walmart set to debut new website
Taking aim at Amazon, Walmart announces new website with more personalization.
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Walmart Says It Will Pay for Its Workers to Earn College Degrees
The giant retailer will begin to subsidize tuition for its 1.4 million employees in the United States to study either business or supply chain management. The workers would pay $1 a day.
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Man charged with making $1.3 million in fraudulent returns to Walmart
Police in Arizona thought they were busting an ordinary case of a fraudulent return this week until some digging discovered the same 23-year-old man has perpetrated the scheme at thousands of Walmart stores across the country. Police in Yuma, Arizona, said they responded to a case of a fraudulent return on Wednesday afternoon in which a person bringing a computer back to Walmart had allegedly removed parts of the computer before putting it back in the box and taking it back to the store.
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Man charged with making $1.3 million in fraudulent returns to Walmart
Police in Arizona thought they were busting an ordinary case of a fraudulent return this week until some digging discovered the same 23-year-old man has perpetrated the scheme at thousands of Walmart stores across the country. Police in Yuma, Arizona, said they responded to a case of a fraudulent return on Wednesday afternoon in which a person bringing a computer back to Walmart had allegedly removed parts of the computer before putting it back in the box and taking it back to the store.
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Walmart Just Patented Audio Surveillance Technology For Listening In On Employees
“The sound sensors can capture audio data based on interactions between the employee and the guests, interactions between the guests, and sounds resulting from movement and/or actions of the employees and/or guests.”
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Walmart patents tech that would allow it to eavesdrop on cashiers
Walmart has patented surveillance technology that would allow it to spy on employees’ conversations with customers and use the audio to measure workplace performance. The patent for “sound sensors” that could be installed at checkout is the latest example of controversial workplace surveillance technology and automated systems that purport to quantify and increase employees’ productivity. The filing comes at a time in which the US retail giant is facing growing competition from Amazon, which completed a $14bn acquisition of Whole Foods last year.
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Walmart may launch a video streaming service to battle Netflix, Amazon
The retail giant wants to offer video streaming at a more accessible price point.
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Walmart to end overnight RV camping this summer
Maurice and Francoise St-Jules have spent many nights camped out in Walmart parking lots across the country. The couple, who said they have been been travelling their whole lives, drove their RV to the Yukon from their home in Red Deer, Alta. They arrived in Whitehorse last week, spending one night at Walmart before taking a trip to Dawson, and then returning for another three nights.
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Amazon and Walmart’s rivalry is reshaping how we’ll buy everything in the future
Walmart’s ongoing battle with Amazon for the retail crown is expanding well beyond retail, and it’s forcing one of the largest companies in the world to reexamine its DNA. In the last six months alone, Walmart has partnered with scores of tech firms to better compete with Amazon and make progress in markets that may become pivotal years down the line. It’s also begun rethinking how it views itself: a traditional big-box retail giant that now hopes it can be nimble enough to compete with one of technology’s most powerful players.
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'It's not right': Shoppers angry over Walmart charging more for plus-size clothing
Walmart Canada is facing criticism for charging more for plus-size clothing, a policy some shoppers consider an unjust "fat tax." "It's unacceptable," said Walmart shopper Shannon Mozak, of Edmonton, who sometimes buys plus sizes. "It's a form of shaming people." Walmart and some other retailers mark up their plus-size clothing with the justification that bigger sizes cost more to produce.
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Walmart warning it'll raise prices as Trump's China tariffs kick in
Walmart, the biggest U.S. retailer, warned the Trump administration the newest round of tariffs on imported Chinese goods could prompt it to raise prices on products from shampoo to bicycles to food. "This round of tariffs could impact a significant number of common consumer items that are not easily replaceable," Sarah F. Thorn, a senior director for global government affairs at Walmart, wrote in a Sept. 6 letter to the U.S. Trade Representative. "The immediate impact will be to raise prices on consumers and tax American business and manufacturers. "
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Walmart Canada Ponders Selling Cannabis-Based Products
Walmart Inc.’s Canadian arm has been investigating the possibility of selling cannabis-based products but doesn’t intend to get into the much-hyped business yet. “As we would for any new industry, Walmart Canada has done some preliminary fact-finding on this issue, but we do not have plans to carry CBD products at this time,” spokeswoman Diane Medeiros said in an email, referring to cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive compound found in cannabis plants.
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Walmart is planning a store without cashiers
Walmart's NYC-based innovation center is experimenting with a cashier-less store concept called Project Kepler, which "aims to reimagine the in-store shopping experience with the help of technologies like computer vision," Recode reports.
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Walmart cashier pays woman's bill after she breaks down at register
A Texas teenager’s kindness is encouraging others to pay it forward after he covered the tab of a Walmart shopper who wasn’t able to pay her grocery bill at the register. John Lopez Jr., 19, took a job at a Princeton, Texas, Walmart in March to earn money to help pay for college, CBS Dallas reports. During his shift on Monday night, a shopper named Laci Simms spotted Lopez, who was working at the register, pay for another customer’s full cart of merchandise.
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Walmart is planning to launch its own low-cost Android tablet
Less iPad Pro, more Amazon Fire.
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Walmart's Robots Don't Appear to Be Going Over So Great With All of Its Workers
Retail giants are increasingly turning over jobs and tasks performed in the past by human workers to a growing workforce of robots. A new report on this automation of jobs by Walmart says it’s led to a greater sense of tedium and unease among some human employees, even as the company insists that its robots are meant to benefit them.
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