On Tuesday, Walmart announced that it would remove Cosmopolitan from checkout lines at its 5,000 locations across the US, in what I interpret (probably incorrectly) to be its corporate stance against women learning 902384 moves, which will make him bellow yas!
In a statement released Wednesday, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, announced it would raise the minimum age required to buy firearms and ammunition from 18 to 21.
In what is a just-bananas-enough-to-believe publicity grab, Walmart will capitalize (intentionally or not) on the #MeToo and generally pro-women national mood by airing three 60-second films “devised” by directors Melissa McCarthy, Dee Rees, and Nancy Meyers during this year’s Academy Awards broadcast.
A man named Henry Walker who resides in Phenix City, Alabama was awarded $7.5 million in damages on Wednesday from Walmart two years after he fell at his local store and broke his hip.
Walmart is being hit with a new class action lawsuit regarding pay discrimination six years after the Supreme Court threw out Betty Duke’s suit against the company for sex discrimination.
On Wednesday, a photo circulated on Twitter depicting a Walmart gun display case topped with a prominent sign that reads, “Own the school year like a hero.” Now, Walmart has apologized, and a representative says the company is taking steps to ensure that this... does not happen again.
A new report from the workers advocacy group A Better Balance alleges that Walmart consistently punishes employees for taking sick days, even if they have proper documentation from doctors.
Last week, Walmart unveiled a new prepackaged food item called the “crotilla.” The disc-shaped (and reportedly flaky) little thing is described by the retail giant as “an alternative for croissant sandwiches since the buttery bread often flakes apart when it’s cut horizontally.” But let’s cut the crap for a second and…
The past couple years have been something of a season of ironic disappointment for customers of modern, ostensibly feminist clothing companies, from Nasty Gal’s infamously nasty corporate culture to new allegations of sexual harassment against the CEO of period underwear maker Thinx. Now, current and former employees…
Tracy Morgan settled with Walmart over a year ago, after one of their truck drivers hit his limo bus in 2014. The crash killed Morgan’s friend, James McNair. The driver, Kevin Roper, had been awake for over 24 hours at the time of the accident.
The Village Voice reports that exactly none of the donors for new super-PAC New Yorkers for Independent Action—which has launched a very expensive campaign to unseat four black and Latino state Democrats representing Bronx, Brooklyn, and Suffolk counties in the September 13 Democratic primaries—actually live in the…
Welcome to the first and only entry in our limited series ‘Memba When, in which we blog about the intersection of cute dog stories and car stories that Jalopnik wrote about days prior.
A little throwback to the height of the Clinton-era culture wars for your Wednesday morning: In 1995, Wal-Mart pulled t-shirts featuring a Dennis the Menace character declaring “Someday a woman will be PRESIDENT!” from one of its stores because somebody thought it was “offensive.”
Police are currently responding to an active shooter situation in a Walmart in Amarillo, Texas. Authorities believe that the shooter has taken hostages.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced Friday that they will be shutting down 269 stores around the world “in the coming fiscal year” as part of an ongoing reevaluation of their “fleet.” CNBC reports that of the 154 domestic closures, 102 would be Neighborhood Markets—the brand’s smaller stores originally branded as Walmart…
Watch out, world. Patti LaBelle has been in the kitchen again serving up some of her famous desserts. After her Sweet Potato Pie skyrocketed to success last November, resulting in empty shelves and sweet-toothed fans scalping them at high costs, Walmart decided to offer the limited edition item year-round. They are…
Sam’s Club, a discount warehouse store owned by Wal-Mart, could be criticized for any number of things, including huge job cuts, poor employee conditions, or its willingness to sell you a barrel of Jack Daniels. The thing people are choosing to criticize the company for is much, much more stupid.
A Walmart employee in Albany, New York was fired from his job after redeeming $2 worth of discarded cans he found while gathering the store’s shopping carts. Walmart didn’t have a problem with the $3.10 worth of empty beer cans Smith had found in the parking lot, but did have an issue with the $2 he received from cans…
The Patti LaBelle sweet potato pie shortage continues one week after James Wright uploaded up the now infamous Facebook video promoting the dessert. Walmart really was not—and still isn’t—prepared for the tornado of sweet enthusiasts.
The War on Christmas is ramping up: another large chain, H&M, plans to close its doors on one of the biggest shopping days of the year.
