Walmart will price match any store…except other Walmarts or Walmart.com. From KJRH:
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Walmart Begins Holiday Toy Price War In October
By 10.1.07
It’s October, the new official start to the holiday shopping season. At least according to Walmart. They’re already discounting toys.
Target Matches Walmart's $9 Birth Control Pill Program
By 9.29.07
Attention women who like the idea of $9 birth control: Target has announced that they will be matching Walmart’s program. Target will also be matching the additions to the $4 generic program.
Walmart To Save Planet With Concentrated Laundry Detergents
By 9.29.07
Walmart says it’s going to save “one of our most precious natural resources”, water, by offering only concentrated laundry detergents from now on.
We'll Take A Half-Dozen Of The $4.88 Laptops, Please
By 9.29.07
It’s too bad that they seem to only have one left.
Walmart Adds More Drugs To The $4 Program, You Can Now Control Your Fungus For Cheap
By 9.27.07
The New York Times is reporting that Walmart has decided to expand their $4 generic drug program. The program will now include generics of “widely used heart medication Coreg and the anti-fungal drug Lamisil.”
Walmart Tries To Make DVDs, Toothpaste, Soap, Milk, Beer, Vacuum Cleaners, and Soda Eco-Friendly
By 9.25.07
According to BusinessWeek, Walmart is using its considerable power to pressure its suppliers to reduce manufacturing energy consumption, and in doing so, cut costs.
Walmart Launches "Customer Contact Reduction" Program, Disconnects Phone
By 9.24.07
Walmart.com doesn’t want to talk to you, so they’re disconnecting their phone as part of their new “Customer Contact Reduction Program.”
Spelling Bee Champ Lands Lucrative Walmart Sign Making Job
By 9.24.07
Besides the obvious misspelling, it seems now that Walmart considers a measuring cup a “gadget.” Ooh, look at these fancy graduated lines! Futuristic. Someone send Gizmodo a press release.
Walmart's Nazi Tshirts Found In Outlet Stores
By 9.24.07
Ever wonder what happened to all those shirts Walmart pulled off their shelves for containing a disgusting Nazi symbol? Well, some of them can be found in a Florida Beall’s Outlet store for $4.99. [More]
Walmart Launches House Brand CFLs
By 9.21.07
“The introduction of our Great Value bulbs make CFLs a more accessible option for our shoppers as we strive to sell 100 million CFLs by the end of 2007,” said Wal-Mart General Merchandise Manager Andy Barron in a statement.
Walmart Rolls Back Prices Negative One Dollar And Fifty-Nine Cents
By 9.17.07
Nowadays it seems like anyone can make a sign. I yearn for the olde days of sign making when you actually had to know something about signmaking to do it. Signmaking was restricted to knowledgeable guild workers. The penalty for non-guild workers making signs was death. By signmaking.
What Walmart Can Tell Us About Ourselves
By 9.13.07
Walmart knows more about us than we do, according to ABC News.
Walmart Pulls Foot Burning FlipFlops
By 9.12.07
Walmart says it has pulled thousands of cheap sandals that had of customers complaining about painful, lingering rashes, WFTV in Florida reports.
Walmart Tries To Steal Shopper's Baby
By 9.11.07
A Walmart security guard demanded a woman hand over her baby at checkout, thinking it might have been a baby that was reported missing in the store, according to a Myspace post by the mother, Stacy Arrington of Parkville, MD (pictured):
Man Attempts To Return Walmart Ammunition At 1300 Feet Per Second
By 9.10.07
It’s Walmart’s policy, clearly visible on their website and in their stores, that all sales of guns and ammunition are final. One San Diego man didn’t like that policy so he tried to return the ammunition in another way. By firing it in the Walmart parking lot.
11th Walmart Flipflop Chemical Burning Case Reported
By 9.8.07
When it got worse the dermatologist said that it was definitely not a fungus…
Walmart Rolls Back Prices Negative Sixteen Cents
By 9.6.07
Reader Jonathan’s son snapped this photo of a Walmart price “rollback” in Tawas City, Michigan, this Labor Day Monday. The current price is $1.98, the previous, $1.82. “I do see the irony of being in a Wal-Mart on Labor Day,” writes Jonathan, “and I still feel unclean for it.”
