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Receipt Checker Avoidance Tactic: Confuse Them With Extreme Politeness
Reader Matt wants to share his technique for waltzing past the Walmart receipt checkers with a minimum of hassle. The secret? Be super nice, but don't stop walking. More »
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Sam's Club Lays Off 10% Of Employees
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Sam's Club, owned by Walmart, is cutting about 11,200 jobs nationwide in its stores. That's about ten percent of the chain's workforce. The part-time employees who currently hand out product samples and perform demonstrations will be replaced with ringers from the outside company that performs the same service in Walmart stores. More »
Chicagoist Catches Walmart Astroturfing As Populist Local Group
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Kevin Robinson at the blog Chicagoist was curious about a commenter who sounded suspiciously on-message on some recent Walmart posts. Walmart wants to come into Chicago, and Walmart's opponents are fighting the retailer at the community level to prevent that. In return, a pro-Walmart community group has formed called "Our Community, Your Choice" that argues, "Everyone else but Chatham and the South Side are making the decisions - It’s OUR CHOICE, NOT THEIRS." More »
How Walmart Is Going Green
Ideally, companies choose to lessen their environmental impact because it makes financial sense, not because it makes them feel good--which is a good thing, since companies don't have feelings. Today, FastCompany published a slideshow that looks at 12 ways the mega-retailer is trying out various green initiatives. Some of them are more about selling the concept of green to consumers, which is dumb, but the ones that deal with shipping, energy consumption, and market creation are pretty impressive. More »
Walmart Customer Arrested For Urinating On Steaks
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Either this man was not in his right mind, or this was the stupidest animal-rights protest ever. The police in Canton, Ohio report that a man was arrested and jailed for urinating on a Walmart meat counter, ruining $600 worth of steak. More »
Walmart Manager Takes Customer's DVD Away Because He Won't Show Receipt
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Yep, it's another Walmart receipt checker story! At the end of it, the OP asks, "What should I do?" And I sigh. I really don't know. Don't shop at Walmart anymore? Try to encourage your friends to not give their business to any company that acts in such a hostile way to honest, albeit uncooperative, customers? Spend a ton of money on a lawsuit that Walmart will use its very deep pockets to fight? More »
Secret Credit Card Backdoor Numbers To Get Your Credit Increased, APR Changed, Etc!
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Want your credit line increased, APR lowered, or your declined credit card application approved? Begging and pleading with customer service not getting you anywhere except front row seats to your personal puddle of shame? Then give some of the "backdoor numbers" a shot.
NYC Police Dept Stops Giving Counterfeit Clothing To Charity
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It turns out H&M and Walmart aren't the only two organizations caught destroying clothes they couldn't sell. Yesterday the New York Times reported that the NYC Police Department has also been destroying clothing that would otherwise be wearable. The big difference this time is that the clothing is counterfeit. More »
Walmart Holds Another Customer Hostage
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Kerri (not her real name) says she was detained last week at a Walmart in Utah, after she declined to show the receipt checker her receipt on the way out. She says a police officer blocked her from leaving, told her to show the receipt checker more respect, and then had her go back inside and let Walmart examine her bags while he wrote down the info from her drivers license. More »
Walmart Sells You Two Wooden Blocks Instead Of A Hard Drive
Reader Jeff writes in with a troubling but ultimately positive experience buying wooden blocks disguised as a hard drive from Walmart. More »
Walmart Greeter Punched, Fired
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Ed was a Floridau Walmart greeter who said he fought a customer who attacked him in late December, accusing the employee of gross misconduct for fighting with a customer. Because the greeter defended himself, he lost his job, WESH.com in Orlando reports. More »
H&M Store Cuts Up Unsold Clothing, Throws It Away
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Some retailers donate unsold clothing to charity, or discount it by the palletful and sell it to thrift stores or closeout retailers. But the New York Times reports that the H&M at Herald Square in Manhattan gets rid of their unsold clothing by cutting holes in it to render it unwearable, then throwing it away. More »
Tackling, Stabbing, & Fake Heart Attacks: A Walmart Shoplifting Gone Awry
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A Tennessee couple tried to bum-rush the exit of a Walmart with a cart packed with $2000 worth TVs and a computer. When an off-duty police officer showed his badge after the man tried to muscle past the greeter, the would-be five-finger discounter said it was fake and tried to push through. The cop tackled the man and cuffed him. Then it got even better: More »
Giant Mold Universe Found Inside Chef Boyardee Can
Larry says that he opened a can of chef boyardee recently only to find a horrible giant mold world growing inside. When he contacted the store he bought it from, Walmart, a low-level employee was openly hostile to them and said the manager "wouldn't believe them." Yes, that's the new scam: steal a can of food, open it up, grow a massive mold culture inside it for several weeks, then try to return it for a buck oh nine. More »
Best Of Return Policies, Worst Of Return Polices
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To aid you in your post-Christmas return-a-thon, WalletPop has put together a capsule list of the best and worst return policies. More »
Guess What's In This Package?
No, really. Guess.
Are you entitled to a refund if your wrapping paper doesn't sufficiently conceal a package's contents? Megan thinks so. Last week when she wrapped her fiance's Christmas present, he got an unexpected surprise. He could tell exactly what the gift was through the opaque wrapping paper. More »
Walmart Accused Of Secretly Videotaping Public Restroom
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Seven current and former employees of a Pennsylvania Walmart Tire and Lube Center have filed suit against the company, reports the Morning Call. The employees say they discovered that they and the general public were being monitored via video camera in a public bathroom. More »
Here's A Walmart Perp Walk In Action
Maybe attacking, restraining, and physically marching off suspected shoplifters is the new "Stop, thief!" for Walmart employees. Here's video footage of an actual event that happened in a New Jersey Walmart last Friday, shot by our own GitEmSteveDave. More »
Alleged Walmart Shoplifter Dies After Being Tackled
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Walmart's loss prevention tactics took a morbid turn over the weekend at an Atlanta location, when a suspected shoplifter was tackled by two security personnel and a customer, and then died for mysterious reasons. More »
The Truth About Walmart's Super-Secret Data Center
Reader humphrmi thinks he knows what's up with Walmart's giant unmarked datacenter, photos of which we posted recently. It's a truth SO REVEALING that it may make you go, "Oh, that makes sense."
