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T-Mobile: Sorry You Lost Your Job And Had To Move, Here's Your $500 ETF Bill
By Laura Northrup on May 24, 2012 12:35 PM
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Walter's wife was laid off from her position in Chicago, needed a job. She found one in a different Midwestern city: Omaha. She doesn't seem to have any complaints about Omaha, except for the thing where she has next to no cell phone service. This still isn't enough to get her out of her contract with T-Mobile, and she's on the hook for her entire early termination fee, plus her whole non-prorated last month of service. More »
Rattlesnake Makes Terrible Walmart Greeter, Bites Customer
By Laura Northrup on May 15, 2012 8:30 AM
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In a Walmart Garden Center, an outdoor area filled with plants, it's not surprising that you might encounter some critters. Maybe a large bug, a moth, a frog, or even a grass snake. While shopping for mulch for his medical marijuana plants on Friday morning, a 47-year-old Washington state man reached down to pick up what he thought was a stick, and ended up rushed to the emergency room with a rattlesnake bite. More »
California Pension Fund Sues Walmart Leaders Over Alleged Bribery Scandal
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 4, 2012 2:25 PM
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When you've got shareholders with a lot invested in your company, and you're caught up in the midst of a bribery scandal, well, said shareholders might not be too happy. A California pension fund that holds more than 5.3 million shares of Walmart is none too pleased with the company and how it's handled the alleged bribery situation in Mexico. More »
Shareholder Sues Walmart Board Over Mexico Bribery Allegations
By Chris Morran on April 25, 2012 4:00 PM
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The fallout continues over WalmartMexicoGate, a term I just made up right now that will likely never be used again. A shareholder in the nation's largest retailer has filed a lawsuit against the company's board of directors over the bad press tied to allegations that Walmart spent millions of dollars bribing folks in Mexico. More »
Report: Walmart Lobbied Aggressively Against Anti-Bribery Laws They May Have Violated
By Mary Beth Quirk on April 25, 2012 1:00 PM
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As every action Walmart has taken over the last few years is being picked apart in the aftermath of the New York Times story that alleges they used bribes to expand in Mexico and then covered up those bribes, lots of little interesting side stories are popping up. For example, a new report says Walmart was involved in lobbying aggressively against the very anti-bribery laws they are being investigated for violating. More »
Report: Feds Targeting Walmart With Criminal Investigation In Wake Of Bribery Claims
By Mary Beth Quirk on April 24, 2012 2:00 PM
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A new report says the U.S. Justice Department is taking allegations of Walmart bribery in Mexico very seriously, and have started a criminal investigation. And just as that news hits comes a story that the company has created a Global Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Compliance Officer. Coincidence? We think not. More »
We Are Shocked, Shocked That Walmart May Have Been Bribing People In Mexico
By Mary Beth Quirk on April 22, 2012 11:10 PM
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Hold the darn phone — Walmart has been indicated in a bribery scandal in which the company's Mexican arm was bribing people to the tune of $24 million to obtain permits, and then attempted to cover up the whole scandal? We shan't believe it. Ha! Just kidding. That makes total sense. More »
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Study Says The More Walmarts In The Area, The More Hate Groups There Are
By Mary Beth Quirk on April 13, 2012 5:00 PM
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This one's sure to boil some blood over at Walmart headquarters: A new study says there's a significant correlation between the amount of Walmart stores in an area and the number of hate groups existing in that same area. As the big-box stores proliferate, so do the groups. More »
Can Bricks-And-Mortar Retailers Beat Amazon At The Pricing Game?
By Chris Morran on April 11, 2012 1:45 PM
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In recent years, retailers across the country have taken issue with Amazon and other online stores that don't collect sales tax in most states, saying it gives e-tailers an unfair advantage and offers consumers an easy way to skirt their sales tax obligations. But recent studies show just how far apart prices at bricks-and-mortar stores — and their websites — are from what consumers will pay on Amazon. More »
Feds Bust Scammers Who Collected $5.2 Million By Pretending To Be Cops
By Chris Morran on April 11, 2012 12:30 PM
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As you probably know, it's illegal for a debt collector to threaten arrest over a debt. It's also a big no-no to try collecting on a debt that doesn't exist. Unfortunately, that didn't stop a California man from operating a scheme where callers allegedly posed as law enforcement officers to collect on bogus debts. More »
Even Best Buy Doesn't Like Big Box Stores, Announces Plan To Close 50 Of Them
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 29, 2012 10:00 AM
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Like a giant, unhelpful dinosaur mired in a tar pit, Best Buy has finally stopped struggling and realized that its big box store model might not be the best. The company announced they're closing 50 of those stores this year, and will scale things back size-wise to try and boost revenue. More »
Walmart Hoping To Get Cash-Only Customers To Shop Online
By Chris Morran on March 20, 2012 3:30 PM
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Walmart is the largest retailer in the country, which means that there are inevitably a number of the store's customers who don't use credit or debit cards. In the checkout aisle, that's not a problem because cash is always an option, but the lack of plastic keeps these shoppers from buying anything online. Walmart thinks it may have found a compromise that could resolve that issue. More »
Walmart Will Turn Your DVDs & Blu-Rays Into Digital Movies For $2
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 14, 2012 10:00 AM
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If your shelves are getting cluttered with DVD and Blu-Ray boxes, Walmart has a (legal) solution: Starting April 16, customers can bring in their physical copies of movies and get a digital version stored in the UltraViolet cloud for $2 each. More »
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Is It Fair For Extreme Couponers To Take All The Mouthwash Just Because They Can?
By Mary Beth Quirk on February 29, 2012 5:00 PM
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We've all the seen the devastation an extreme couponer can wreak on a display of deodeoants, if not firsthand, then on the TLC show aptly named Extreme Couponing. Sure, it's awesome for the couponer, but what about the average customer who just wants to buy one shampoo, not 23, and there are none to be found? Stores have been adjusting their policies in certain regions as a result. More »
7-Year-Old Walmart Shopper Fights Off Attempted Kidnapping In Toy Aisle
By Chris Morran on February 9, 2012 3:00 PM
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I can't be the only one whose mother used tales of in-store child abductions in an attempt to keep me from wandering off during trips to Sears and Bradlees. She also instructed me to scream like something that screams really, really loud if anyone ever tried to do anything sketchy. A 7-year-old girl in Georgia seems to have learned that same lesson. More »
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Over 500 Women File Sexual Discrimination Claims Against Walmart
By Mary Beth Quirk on February 3, 2012 11:00 AM
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Both current and former female employees of Walmart are up in arms against the gigantic box store, with more than 500 of them joining together to file sex-discrimination claims with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the company. The move came after they were told last year they couldn't bring their cases together as part of a nationwide class-action lawsuit. More »
Walmart Moving Greeters Away From The Entrance And To The Checkout Line
By Chris Morran on January 30, 2012 4:24 PM
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Only days after it was reported that Walmart was no longer going to be putting greeters on the graveyard shift comes news of a more radical change in the whole philosophy of greeters — taking them away from the entrance and moving them inside the store where they can possibly be of more help. More »
Raiders Of The Lost Walmart Discover Cache Of Ancient Flash Drives
By Laura Northrup on January 27, 2012 8:00 AM
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In the electronics department of his local Walmart in New York state, Joseph made an amazing discovery in the field of retail archaeology. No one was interested in these ten 256 MB flash drives, so they've languished. No markdowns, no clearance: they'll remain on the shelf, with a price tag of $28.83. A cashier told Joseph, "You'll be bringing your kids in here some day, and these will still be here." Something to look forward to. More »
If A Walmart Greeter Is Pulled From The Night Shift, Does It Make A Sound?
By Chris Morran on January 26, 2012 11:45 AM
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The next time you go to do your 3 a.m. grocery and table saw shopping at your local Walmart, you may notice that the septua-, octo-, and nonagenarian greeters that used to stand between you and the brightly lit aisles of Walmart wares are no longer there. More »
Walmart Casts Itself As "Retail American Idol" In Search For New Products
By Mary Beth Quirk on January 20, 2012 4:00 PM
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Your dream of putting hard work into inventing a new product so that it can be sold for bargain prices at big box stores around the country is about to come true. Walmart is holding a contest for inventors to compete for a spot on their shelves. More »
