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Walmart Slashes Health Care Benefits

Cites concerns over rising costs

(Newser) - America’s largest employer is scaling back its health benefits, jacking up premiums for full-time workers by as much as 40% and eliminating coverage altogether for many part-timers, Walmart told employees this week. The company blamed rising costs for the move, telling the New York Times that it has nothing...

Walmart&#39;s Layaway Plan Preys on the Desperate
Walmart's Layaway Plan Preys on the Desperate
OPINION
Oct 12, 2011 1:14 PM CDT

Walmart's Layaway Plan Preys on the Desperate

Consumers are reeling from the loss of easy credit

(Newser) - Good news everybody: Layaway is back! Walmart recently announced that it was bringing back its program, allowing customers to hold items for two months for a mere $5 fee. That may sound like a swell deal for Americans who can’t get credit, writes Louis Hyman in the New York ...

Shoppers Blast Retailers' Online Anti-Gay Ties

Petitions prompt Microsoft, Apple to cut connection to charity group

(Newser) - Apple, Microsoft, and an array of other online retailers have found themselves at the center of a gay-rights battle, the New York Times reports. The retailers have been tied to an Internet marketer, the Charity Giveback Group, that receives a commission when it sends the retailers an online customer. There'...

Walmart Pledges Billions for Women Businesses

Huge initiative supports women-owned companies

(Newser) - Walmart may have some serious image problems in how it treats women, but the business behemoth is throwing around some serious money that could help change that. Under a new initiative announced today, it pledges to spend $20 billion over the next five years to buy products from women-owned businesses...

Cops: Walmart Workers Steal $45K for Sex Change

Pair also hoped for a car

(Newser) - One wanted a Supra; the other, a sex change. So two Walmart workers allegedly teamed up to steal $45,000 from the Arizona store that employed them—money that would purchase surgery for one and a car for the other, they told police. One of the employees distracted the cashiers...

Walmart Demands Woman Put a Shirt On
 Walmart Demands 
 Woman Put a 
 Shirt On 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Jul 31, 2011 2:32 PM CDT

Walmart Demands Woman Put a Shirt On

51-year-old Sandy McMillin was only wearing a bikini top

(Newser) - We’re just gonna present this one without comment: An Oregon woman is consulting her lawyer and alerting the media after being told to cover up while shopping at her local Walmart. Sandy McMillin, a bald, tattooed, disabled, 51-year-old ex-motorcycle racer, was looking through the clothing department wearing only a...

Newest Netflix Competitor: Walmart

Vudu now website

(Newser) - Netflix has a new competitor, and it's a behemoth: Walmart. The world's biggest retailer added Vudu, a movie streaming service it bought 18 months ago, to its site yesterday. Walmart now offers 20,000 titles to rent for $1 to $5.99, or to buy for $4.99...

The Weird, Wild World of Walmart

Strange stories often take place at the retail giant's stores

(Newser) - Does Walmart imitate life or does life imitate Walmart? The ubiquitous big-box chain is very often the setting for births, deaths, marriages, and strange events, reports the Wall Street Journal . Recent incidents include: a man dressed as a cow who stole 26 gallons of milk from a Virginia store in...

Awesome Lady Stomps Beer Thieves' Getaway Car

And her name is ... Monique Lawless

(Newser) - There are so many awesome things about the story of Monique Lawless, who gave chase to three beer thieves at a Houston Walmart on Sunday, that it's difficult to know where to begin. Her name is Lawless, for crying out loud. The first names of the three brothers who...

In Wal-Mart Case, High Court Ignores Women, Evidence

Dahlia Lithwick on the injustice of Wal-Mart v. Dukes

(Newser) - The Supreme Court’s Wal-Mart ruling doesn’t just set the legal precedent that some companies are too big to sue. The court’s five conservatives—and all but one of its men—also declared that “sex discrimination is simply too pervasive to be a problem,” writes Dahlia...

Supreme Court Sides With Wal-Mart in Sex Bias Case

More than 1M women don't have enough in common: justices

(Newser) - The Supreme Court has ruled for Wal-Mart in the biggest sex discrimination lawsuit ever, holding that the case cannot proceed as a class action. The court rejected a US appeals court decision that as many as 1.6 million women could take part in the suit, which could have ultimately...

Saudi Woman Spits at Walmart Shoppers

...and gets charged with hate crime over Florida incident

(Newser) - Spitting on Walmart shoppers in Florida has earned a Saudi woman a battery charge with a hate crime enhancement. One woman says Nuha Mohammed Al-Doaifi spat in her face when she told her she was trying to enter the store via an exit door. Witnesses say the Saudi spat at...

Wal-Mart Family Donates $800M to Art Museum

Biggest-ever cash donation to art museum in US

(Newser) - Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton’s family will give a record $800 million to his daughter’s new art museum, marking the biggest-ever cash donation to an art museum in the US. It’s a gift that reflects the family's high hopes for Alice Walton’s 201,000-square-foot Crystal Bridges...

Fortune 500 List: Walmart, Exxon Mobil Again Top the List
 Walmart Rules Fortune 500 List 
May 5, 2011 1:10 PM CDT

Walmart Rules Fortune 500 List

Editors see huge disparity between businesses, ordinary Americans

(Newser) - Turns out, last year was a pretty good one for US businesses. Total revenue for Fortune 500 companies jumped 10.5% to $10.8 trillion, while profits surged 81%. "We've rarely seen such a stark gulf between the fortunes of the 500 and those of ordinary Americans,"...

Walmart: Gas Prices Hurting Our Shoppers

CEO says customers 'running out of money'

(Newser) - Walmart shoppers are running out of cash, pinched by high gas prices and unemployment, the company’s CEO said this week. “We’re seeing core consumers under a lot of pressure,” Mike Duke said at a retail industry gathering, according to CNN . “There’s no doubt that...

Walmart Tests Online Grocery Service

People in San Jose can order on the Internet for home delivery

(Newser) - The online grocery business is small-scale right now, but the potential for growth just got a lot better: Walmart is taking a stab at it. The chain announced it is testing a "Walmart To Go" service in San Jose, California, reports Reuters . Customers can order groceries from the store...

Driverless Tractor Set Loose in Walmart Lot

Video is sure to go viral, Mashable notes

(Newser) - Mashable points to the latest sure-to-go-viral video: A driverless tractor running loose in a Walmart parking lot, wreaking exactly the type of havoc you’d expect. The video, from a Canadian store, does show how the tractor is eventually stopped. On Mashable, Charlie White has to wonder “why...

Walmart: Too Big to Sue?
 Walmart: Too Big to Sue? 
Mar 29, 2011 11:33 AM CDT

Walmart: Too Big to Sue?

Company says it's too big to be sued by 1.5M female employees

(Newser) - Walmart will go before the Supreme Court today and argue that it is simply too big to face a class action gender discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of some 1.5 million current and former female employees. “They have brought a case that implicates 3,400 stores around the...

Walmart Suffering Biggest-Ever Slump

Execs admit retail giant lost its way

(Newser) - Walmart is suffering its worst-ever slump in US sales and is widely expected to post more disappointing figures when it reports earnings today. Analysts say the retail giant's woes are the result of its failure to follow founder Sam Walton's formula of providing ordinary Americans with "every day low...

Wal-Mart Fires 4 Employees Who Disarmed Gunman

They're brave, but that violates store policy

(Newser) - Wal-Mart is a stickler for store policy: It fired four employees in Utah after they disarmed a convicted felon who pulled a gun on them. After the employees saw the man try to shoplift a netbook, they escorted him to a store office, reports AoL News . There, he pulled out...

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