Can Wal-Mart Repair Its Image?
It seems that Wal-Mart is getting a bad image, and that shoppers are leaving them and heading to other retailers.
It seems that Wal-Mart is getting a bad image, and that shoppers are leaving them and heading to other retailers.
The national unemployment rate spiked following the 2008 financial crash, and it has remained stubbornly high ever since. Unfortunately, it has been even worse for returning American servicemembers. Today, though, Wal-Mart announced a plan to hire 100,000 veterans over the next five years.
Walmart, Target and Toys R Us will take their employees from their families this Thanksgiving by opening Thanksgiving evening.
Many communities gripe when Walmart considers moving in, but a new report indicates homes near the stores actually rise in value when the megachain comes to town.
It never seems to fail — where there’s a twinge of desperation, a nearby Walmart, and just enough faith in a reckless gamble to go over the wall, the derelict sideshow and dumb circus is there.
Apparently, one man from New York does not intend to change that.
Technology and crime once again meet in a new scam with a new name. This type of scam has come to be known as 'Smishing' because of the use of SMS text technology. The phones at the Acadiana Better Business Bureau office have been ringing with reports from consumers across the area reporting scam text messages referring people to a site where they can "claim a Walmart Gift Card" by entering certain private personal information.
Walmart has pulled a batch of baby formula off its shelves after a baby died. Ten-day-old Avery Cornett of Missouri fell ill with a rare bacterial infection and died on Sunday. The rare infection can possibly come from contaminated powdered infant formula.
Sandi McMillin says she was kicked out of Walmart for wearing a bikini — the very same bikini she bought at a Walmart.
“I was horrified,” the Eugene, Oregon woman told KVAL. “I am embarrassed. I hadn’t done anything obnoxious or outlandish.”
The suspects responsible for robbing two women at a Crowley Wal-Mart are now behind bars. Crowley police say that two women were loading groceries into their cars when they were approached at gunpoint by two men in a Chevy Tahoe. After taking the womens’ purses, the suspects fled. Crowley police chief K.P. Gibson says that, working with Duson police, they were able to stop the suspects and take them into custody.
Clodia Coicour, a 43-year-old Florida Walmart employee, was arrested for aggressive battery on Monday after she allegedly attacked a woman she suspected of having an affair with her husband.
She's been officially charged with "battery with great bodily harm causing permanent disfigurement."