Whatever problems many customers might have with Walmart’s business practices, the retail behemoth’s low prices continue to draw shoppers. But new price-comparison reports say that Target may now be the place for frugal consumers. [More]
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Calm Man Successfully Buys TV And Denies Walmart Receipt Checkers
By 3.7.11
Rick is the Gandhi of receipt-check deniers. He writes in with a story of how he bought a 37 inch TV from Walmart and was able to successfully say no to the receipt checker blocking his way with his body. Rick did this by calmly and reasonably explaining his position to the assistant manager who showed up and by ignoring everyone around him who was trying to provoke him. Sometimes the quietest voice speaks the loudest. [More]
83-Year-Old Walmart Greeter Arrested For Attempted Armed Robbery Of Own Store
By 3.7.11
Walmart greeters are usually nice, elderly people just making some extra dough in their golden years. But even in such a pleasant group of folks, there is always going to be one rotten apple. [More]
Walmart Bans Potentially Harmful Flame Retardant
By 2.28.11
Following the lead of a handful of states, Walmart has decided to ban the use of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a flame retardant found in hundreds of products ranging from furniture to textiles to electronics. [More]
Walmart Employee Claims Returning Books To Store Is Illegal
By 2.17.11
Have you ever purchased a book and then returned it, unread, to the store that it came from? If so, you’re a criminal. According to an employee at Myra’s local Walmart store, it’s illegal to return books to a store. It just can’t be done. Except that when the employee tried putting the return though, it worked just fine. [More]
Walmart Employees Fired For Stopping Armed Robber
By 2.14.11
When a suspected shoplifter pulled a gun on employees at a Walmart in Utah last month, the staffers say they were left with no choice but to disarm the man, which they managed to do without anyone getting shot. Unfortunately for them, Walmart says it had no choice but to let these employees go. [More]
Man Suing Walmart Claims They Sold Him A Fake iPad And Refused To Refund His Money
By 2.14.11
A man in Georgia is suing Walmart, claiming a store sold him a fake iPad. As the reporter from WSBTV says, “iPad? More like a Lie Pad!” Zing! [More]
Best Buy Considers Ditching Discounts In Favor Of Lower Everyday Prices
By 2.10.11
For years, Best Buy has relied on using occasional sales and discounts to lure customers into its stores. But a senior executive at the electronics retailer says it is now looking at moving toward a Walmart-like model of lower everyday prices in order to stay competitive. [More]
Woman Bites Into Razor In Walmart Brand Ice Cream
By 2.9.11
A woman has cut her lip on a razor that was at the bottom of her cup of Walmart brand Peanut Butter Stars. When she called to complain, the customer service rep told her, “I’m sorry, I hope your day gets better.” [More]
Walmart Staffer Charged With Faking Kidnapping To Rob Store Of $160,000
By 2.3.11
An employee at a Walmart near Rochester, NY, stands accused of trying to get away with robbing the store of $160,000 in cash by saying she’d been kidnapped and forced into pulling off the heist. [More]
"Armed" Man Arrested At Walmart Was "Armed" With A Cellphone
By 1.31.11
A Walmart in Missouri went into lockdown after a bystander reported a man in the parking lot was behaving “erratically” and wielding a gun, reports the Kirksville Daily Express. The eyewitness reported that the man was holding a gun to his head. [More]
What Do You Think Of The Stores-Within-Stores Trend?
By 1.26.11
These days, more and more big box and department store chains are taking a cue from shopping malls by renting out floor space to retailers to create smaller stores within stores. It’s a model that has helped some businesses to stay afloat in these tough times, but does it benefit you? [More]
Stupid Shipping Gang Thinks Every Dog Treat Needs Separate Box
By 1.26.11
Dog treats shipped in separate boxes large enough to put a dog inside. A wallpaper border crammed on the edge of a box that could fit five more rolls. And a laundry rack shipped to a FedEx store in a box large enough for its purchaser to climb inside. These are the tales of the Stupid Shipping Gang. [More]
The World's Smallest Walmart Opens On A College Campus
By 1.20.11
America, please welcome the world’s smallest Walmart. It opened last week on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. Of course, the concept of “small” is relative when it comes to Walmarts: the new store is about 3,500 square feet of retail space, and replaces the former campus health center pharmacy. [More]
Study: When New Walmarts Open, People Get Fatter
By 1.19.11
Walmart is now the largest grocery store chain in the country, and a new study says that the more supercenters the company opens, the heavier the people living nearby become. [More]
People Of Georgia Freak Out Over Snow, Empty Walmart Shelves
By 1.11.11
Winter has not been kind to the states on the eastern seaboard, and the current snowstorm closing in on the mid-Atlantic has already wreaked havoc in the snow-averse state of Georgia, where three to five inches of the white stuff was enough to send people rushing to stock up at Walmart. [More]
Sometimes, Rarely, Walmart Will Price-Match Itself
By 1.10.11
Retailers that have an online presence generally don’t price-match their own websites. As illogical as this seems (especially for big-box stores that have in-store pickup options) the policy is the policy. Except sometimes there is a way around it. That’s how John saved $8 at Walmart–by making the store price-match its own website. [More]
Judge: Walmart Not To Blame For Man Crashing Into Parking Lot Pole
By 12.29.10
Some of you may remember the story of the man who sued Walmart after he crashed his truck into a pole in one of the retail chain’s parking lots. Many readers were dismissive of the man’s claim that the store was at fault, and it looks like the judge in the case agreed. [More]
