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7-Year-Old Walmart Shopper Fights Off Attempted Kidnapping In Toy Aisle
By Chris Morran on February 9, 2012 3:00 PM
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I can't be the only one whose mother used tales of in-store child abductions in an attempt to keep me from wandering off during trips to Sears and Bradlees. She also instructed me to scream like something that screams really, really loud if anyone ever tried to do anything sketchy. A 7-year-old girl in Georgia seems to have learned that same lesson. More »
Shoppers Give Costco Highest Overall Marks Among Major Retailers
By Chris Morran on February 7, 2012 1:30 PM
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Our pals-in-arms at the Consumer Reports National Research Center recently asked more than 26,000 readers to rate their shopping experiences at the nation's top retailers — both in-store and online — and in spite of being a members' only warehouse store, Costco came out looking the best. More »
Walmart Is Going To Tell You Straight Up Which Foods Are Healthy
By Mary Beth Quirk on February 7, 2012 10:00 AM
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In case you aren't sure whether spinach is good for you, or maybe those pork rinds are trying to convince you they're healthy, Walmart is spelling it out plainly with a new logo. They're introducing a "Great For You" icon, which will be displayed on some food items in its aisles, in an attempt to convince shoppers they want you to eat healthy and save money while you're at it. More »
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Over 500 Women File Sexual Discrimination Claims Against Walmart
By Mary Beth Quirk on February 3, 2012 11:00 AM
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Both current and former female employees of Walmart are up in arms against the gigantic box store, with more than 500 of them joining together to file sex-discrimination claims with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the company. The move came after they were told last year they couldn't bring their cases together as part of a nationwide class-action lawsuit. More »
HQ Notices Raiders Of The Lost Walmart Discovery, Fixes Problem
By Laura Northrup on February 2, 2012 9:00 AM
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Hey, remember the Raiders of the Lost Walmart? Reader Joe sent us a picture of a comically obsolete thumb drive still on the shelves at his local Walmart, a stunning discovery in the field of retail archaeology. "We thought Walmart had the best inventory control systems in the world," I wrote. "Perhaps not." Then we heard from Walmart's Arkansas headquarters. I was wrong—the inventory people are now on it. More »
Walmart Moving Greeters Away From The Entrance And To The Checkout Line
By Chris Morran on January 30, 2012 4:24 PM
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Only days after it was reported that Walmart was no longer going to be putting greeters on the graveyard shift comes news of a more radical change in the whole philosophy of greeters — taking them away from the entrance and moving them inside the store where they can possibly be of more help. More »
It's A Good Thing Shoppers Can Do Simple Math Because Walmart Isn't So Great At It
By Mary Beth Quirk on January 30, 2012 3:00 PM
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James was doing some shopping at Walmart, when he came upon one of those handy signs advertising a price "Rollback" posted on a display of yogurt. But just because Walmart says something is a deal, it pays to do the math to make sure it actually is a bargain. More »
Raiders Of The Lost Walmart Discover Cache Of Ancient Flash Drives
By Laura Northrup on January 27, 2012 8:00 AM
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In the electronics department of his local Walmart in New York state, Joseph made an amazing discovery in the field of retail archaeology. No one was interested in these ten 256 MB flash drives, so they've languished. No markdowns, no clearance: they'll remain on the shelf, with a price tag of $28.83. A cashier told Joseph, "You'll be bringing your kids in here some day, and these will still be here." Something to look forward to. More »
If A Walmart Greeter Is Pulled From The Night Shift, Does It Make A Sound?
By Chris Morran on January 26, 2012 11:45 AM
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The next time you go to do your 3 a.m. grocery and table saw shopping at your local Walmart, you may notice that the septua-, octo-, and nonagenarian greeters that used to stand between you and the brightly lit aisles of Walmart wares are no longer there. More »
Walmart Casts Itself As "Retail American Idol" In Search For New Products
By Mary Beth Quirk on January 20, 2012 4:00 PM
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Your dream of putting hard work into inventing a new product so that it can be sold for bargain prices at big box stores around the country is about to come true. Walmart is holding a contest for inventors to compete for a spot on their shelves. More »
Solving A Problem With StraightTalk Is Not All That Straightforward
By Laura Northrup on January 6, 2012 10:32 AM
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Like most of the StraightTalk customers we've heard from, Barb was happy with Walmart's mobile phone venture...until something went wrong and she had to deal with their customer service. In her case, the problem was that she ordered a smartphone that didn't work. Simple enough to solve, right? Well...not quite. More »
Tests Show No Connection Between Enfamil Baby Formula & Child Deaths
By Chris Morran on January 3, 2012 11:31 AM
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Late last month, Walmart and a handful of other other retailers decided to pull certain lots of Enfamil powdered baby food formula from shelves following the death of an infant in Missouri who had recently consumed the product. But tests by authorities at the Enfamil plant now show no link between the formula and this child's death. More »
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Was I Wrong To Profit From Returning An Online Purchase To Walmart?
By Laura Northrup on December 29, 2011 9:00 AM
141 Comments
A frequent reader who we'll call M. wrote in to offer his post-holiday moral dilemma. Well, it's not so much a dilemma, since he he's already done it. He bought a Microsoft Kinect controller online, but wanted to return it after the holidays were over. Too lazy to package the controller and mail it back, he instead took it to his local Walmart and returned it for store credit. $50 more than he originally paid for the device. More »
No, You Don't Need To Drop $1000 On A Wifi TV To Use A Roku
By Laura Northrup on December 28, 2011 9:00 AM
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Sure, you should research purchases ahead of time, but discovering new things while shopping out in the real world can be fun. Reader HogwartsProfessor was browsing the electronics section at Walmart and had some questions about a Roku. Two associates told her that no, the devices only work if you have a wifi-enabled TV. This isn't true, as she learned: the point of the Roku is that it is the device that streams Internet content to your TV. More »
Walmart Pulls Baby Formula From Shelves As Precaution Following Death Of Newborn
By Chris Morran on December 22, 2011 12:02 PM
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Out of precaution, Walmart has pulled a specific lot of Enfamil powdered baby formula from the shelves of all its stores following the death of a newborn child in Missouri earlier this week. More »
Walmart Managers Turn Away Wannabe Secret Santa
By Chris Morran on December 20, 2011 2:30 PM
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The biggest trend this holiday season appears to be people who have some money doing something nice for those who might need it by anonymously paying for layaway purchases. But when a woman in Houston attempted to do this at two of her local Walmarts, managers at both stores turned her away, citing a nonexistent company policy. More »
Target Apologizes To Rebuffed Students; Walmart Ups The Ante With More Cash
By Chris Morran on December 14, 2011 11:15 AM
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Yesterday we brought you the story of an Ohio middle school teacher who penned an open letter to Target after an employee told her that she and her group of 25 students would not be permitted to do their annual holiday shopping to benefit a local charity. As you might have predicted, once this news hit the web that goes worldwide, Target had a change of heart — and Walmart made a nice counter-offer to the put-out teacher and her charges. More »
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Shoplifter Stabs Walmart Security Employee In Parking Lot
By Mary Beth Quirk on December 12, 2011 5:00 PM
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Something odd must be in the water at a Walmart in Georgia. At the very same store where syringes were turning up in clothing, an employee was stabbed over the weekend after confronting an accused shoplifter in the parking lot. More »
Walmart Announces It's Probing Itself Overseas In Bribery Investigation
By Mary Beth Quirk on December 9, 2011 12:00 PM
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We've got to at least give Walmart credit for being unafraid to admit they're getting frisky with themselves. More specifically, they announced in a securities filing that they've launched an internal probe into whether employees were bribing foreign officials overseas. More »
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Walmart Charges A Dollar More For Weaker Shampoo In A Smaller Amount
By Mary Beth Quirk on December 6, 2011 1:15 PM
35 Comments
This makes sense! Why buy the cheaper bottle of stronger dandruff shampoo, when you can buy a smaller, pricier version of the same shampoo in a weaker strength? Such is the reasoning at Walmart, as witnessed by Consumerist reader Steve. More »
