It was a bad day for Walmart in the courtroom, as a California appeals court granted class-action status to a gender bias lawsuit against the retail giant. That means that over 1 million current and former female employees are now able to join their names to the largest case of its kind in U.S. history. [More]
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Walmart Trying Again To Break Into New York City
By 4.26.10
While Walmart has managed to install outlets in just about every major city in the country, the retail behemoth has never been able to crack the shell of New York City’s five boroughs, though it has tried on two recent occasions. A new report claims that Walmart is hoping the third time is the charm, as they look into a spot for a new store in Brooklyn. [More]
Woman Takes Clothes Into Walmart Changing Room To Pee On Them
By 4.23.10
If there’s any lesson to be learned from this story it’s this: When you decide to take a bunch of clothes into a store’s changing room with the intention of voiding your bladder all over them, do not leave your wallet behind. [More]
Man Spends 24 Hours In A Walmart, Lives To Tell The Tale
By 4.20.10
Over at Zug.com, Bayan Rabbani shares all the details — good, bad, and ugly — of the 24 consecutive hours he spent wandering around — making friends, eating food, getting a manicure — in a Super Walmart in Texas “with absolutely no regard for my hygiene or sanity.” [More]
PHOTO: Walmart Sells Diabetes… For $24.88
By 4.19.10
For anyone who ever thought that shopping at Walmart could make you sick… Here’s the photographic evidence you’ve been waiting for. [More]
Walmart Receipt Checker Helps Customer, Justifies Existence
By 4.16.10
Wes writes that he has discovered a previously unknown use for retail receipt checkers. They can help you to determine when a store is ripping you off, rather than the other way around. [More]
Walmart Regains Top Spot On Fortune 500 List
By 4.15.10
With over $408 billion in revenue, Walmart has regained the coveted top spot on the annual Fortune 500 list. The mega retailer had slipped to #2 behind Exxon Mobil on last year’s list after two consecutive #1 years in 2007 and 2008. [More]
Study: Walmart Price Cuts Are Actually Price Hikes
By 4.14.10
If you’ve turned on a TV recently, you’ve probably seen one of the seemingly countless Walmart ads where the retail behemoth brags about its latest round of price cuts. But a new study says Walmart’s actually been raising its prices on groceries in 2010. [More]
Racist NJ Teens Also Shop, Use P.A. Systems, At Whole Foods
By 4.13.10
Looks like stupid, racist teenagers in New Jersey don’t just shop at Walmart. A 14-year-old girl in Edgewater, NJ, was caught this weekend using the PA system at a local Whole Foods to announce, “All blacks leave the store.” [More]
Introducing Consumer Reports' Weekend Deals
By 4.10.10
Our smarter siblings over at Consumer Reports are really on top of things today: After some digging around, they’ve come up with a list of deals out there this weekend at stores like Walmart, Home Depot and Lowe’s to help you stretch your hard-earned dollars. [More]
If You Bring Your Gun To Walmart, Please Don't Play With It
By 4.9.10
An Arizona man (not Consumerist’s Phil Villareal, in case you were wondering) is under arrest after he discharged a handgun at his local Walmart. And no, he wasn’t robbing the place; he was just nervously fidgeting with his firearm. [More]
Slap-Happy Pappy Pleads Guilty To Punching Kids At Walmart
By 4.8.10
It seems like, oh about three weeks ago that we wrote about the grandfather who was arrested for punching kids in the head while their parents weren’t looking at an Ohio Walmart. In an update to that story, the slap-happy grandpappy has decided that, because it’s not a little kid, he won’t fight the legal system and has pleaded guilty. [More]
Walmart Bomb Threat Suspect Already Waiting Trial For Similar Charge
By 4.6.10
Police in Oklahoma say that the man arrested over the weekend for phoning in a bomb threat to an Oklahoma City Walmart is currently awaiting trial for doing the same thing to an employment agency office only a few months earlier. [More]
Worst Company In America Sweet 16: Bank Of America VS Walmart
By 4.5.10
Now it’s getting tough. Two giants compete for the battle of the biggest. Will it be our biggest retailer? Or our biggest bank? [More]
Lose Your Receipt? Walmart Has A Hotline For You
By 4.5.10
Need a copy of your receipt from Walmart? Do what reader Casey did. Call the hotline. If you paid by debit or credit card, they will look up your receipt and fax it to you. [More]
Survey: Everyone's Shopping At Walmart, Even If They Don't Want To
By 3.30.10
With the economy continuing to circle the bowl, it’s not surprising that customers are turning to Walmart’s cheaper prices for just about everything. A new survey has the box store biggie as the most frequently shopped-at store in all U.S. regions, even though consumers don’t necessarily consider themselves loyal to Big W. [More]
Texas Woman Awarded $9 Million In Walmart False Arrest Lawsuit
By 3.28.10
After being accused of cashing counterfeit money orders and arrested at a Walmart in 2008, a Houston woman has won $9 million in damages in a civil lawsuit against the retailer. 24-year-old Nitra Gipson spent two days in jail…and the money orders turned out to be genuine. [More]
This Computer Game Is On Clearance At Walmart Because It's Now Defunct
By 3.27.10
Kain tells Consumerist that he was searching the clearance section at his local Walmart for deals when he discovered something that was an unbelievably bad deal. Ten “collector’s edition” copies of the multiplayer game Tabula Rasa marked down to only $25! Too bad that the servers required to play the game shut down on Feburary 28, 2009. [More]
