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DID WALMART INFLATE ITS ONLINE SALES NUMBERS? Walmart stock soared in recent months largely on the strength of its online sales numbers—but one former Walmart

If you walk into any of the 4,132 Walmarts in America that sell groceries, you will find only 11 percent of its produce was grown

Business Insider reports that Wal-Mart has just obtained a patent for a device called a ???motorized transport unit,??? a shopping cart with cameras, sensors and

How many Wal-Mart accountants does it take to sell a package of detergent? The answer apparently is: 7,000 more than yesterday. The Wall Street Journal

A new report, “The Phony Philanthropy of the Wal-Mart Heirs,” issued this week by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and the worker’s group

Wal-Mart headquarters announced today that the company will close a total of 269 stores, of which 154 are locations in the U.S., including the company???s

The group Americans for Tax Fairness has begun an online campaign to “Urge the Securities and Exchange Commission to Demand Full Disclosure of Wal-Mart’s Offshore

Wal-Mart’s CEO Doug McMillon (McMillion?)today announced in a video-taped message to workers that wages for about 40% of its workforce will rise slowly. The wage

It sure didn’t take much to buy off actor/gender rights activist Geena Davis, who is collaborating with Wal-Mart on the first Bentonville Film Festival. On

The media made a lot of Wal-Mart’s recent announcement that it would be building more smaller format stores. But less noticed was the fact that

The town square in Bentonville, Arkansas was filled with an estimated 2,000 people wearing yellow rain slickers that said “Wal-Mart — Not in My Neighborhood.”

Wal-Mart had its own “oops” moment recently when it had to quickly pull the plug on a widespread news story about its ambitions to create

In just over 14 weeks, a new museum of American Art will open in a small town tucked away in the Arkansas Ozarks. It is

The Chronicle of Philanthropy declared this week that Wal-Mart was “the most generous” company in America, having donated more than $288 million in cash in

Shareholders are pouring over Wal-Mart’s 2010 Annual Report, which the company has posted online. Wal-Mart by the numbers raises a number of concerns for investors,

Is Wal-Mart venturing into stand up comedy? The Chief Executive Officer of Wal-Mart stores, Lee Scott, admitted to the BBC in a recent interview that

Some Hispanic groups are calling for a month-long boycott of Wal-Mart stores in order to put added pressure on the retailer to support immigration reform,

This week, Wal-Mart unveiled its ‘global plans’ for growth next year (2011), and buried in the middle of their presentation was the fact that domestically

‘Twas the settlement before Christmas. This one has to go down in the Guinness Records as a legal milestone. Wal-Mart has apparently decided to settle

The headline on Wal-Mart’s press release this week simply makes no sense: “Wal-Mart Backs Main Street.” After having ravaged Main Street merchants for the past

Wal-Mart, for some internal reason, holds an analysts meeting every October — right before Halloween — to announce its growth projection plans for the year.

The Walton Family and Warren Buffet are linked in a new report critical of the appalling wages and working conditions found in a Bangladeshi sweatshop

The wage gap at Wal-Mart between the highest paid executive and the lowest paid clerk has narrowed this past year — but not because of

It’s been a quiet week in Wal-Mart parking lots and bathrooms. The market may be tanking, but crime at Wal-Mart shows no signs of abating.

One of the little-noticed side stories in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, was the impact the storm had on Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott. “Katrina was

In honor of Mother’s Day, many of the nation’s most influential women’s groups signed a joint letter that calls on Wal-Mart to address its record

There was another public relations setback for Wal-Mart this week, when the over-sized retailer announced after a year and a half of lobbying, that it

Yesterday, Wal-Mart headquarters issued a press release to “clarify” its new employee scheduling system, which Sprawl-Busters sees as just the enhancement of its capacity to

Borrowing a page from its citizen group opponents, Wal-Mart is doing a little community organizing in the state of Oregon, hoping to improve its lagging

ABC News said Wal-Mart’s announcement yesterday that it would sell 291 generic drugs at “just $4” per month, meant “lifesaving pills are about to get

In the last major national campaign cycle in 2004, Wal-Mart’s political action committee, known as the “Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., PAC for Responsible Government” was one

Wal-Mart’s Public Relations Machine is working over-time these days, as the company keeps spending shareholder’s money on Big Name “Ambassadors” to help move the company’s

The Wal-Mart corporation, which has very structured cultural rules about how “associates” should look and act, reports to its employees that they are growing more

For several years, Wal-Mart critics have charged that the retailer’s inspection program for its more than 5,000 overseas factories is ineffectual, and that the company

Just about one year ago, Sprawl-Busters announced that Wal-Mart had introduced a new Office of Ethics for its workers, complete with a toll free number

Stop the presses! Wal-Mart may have major legal and ethical problems, but the company’s CEO felt compelled to tell thousands of shareholders at their Annual

Wal-Mart discount stores are slowly disappearing. Over the past 5 years, Wal-Mart has shut down 35.3 million square feet of discount stores. Since 1999, Sprawl-Busters

John Menzer, Wal-Mart’s Vice Chairman, did some global flag-waving in the December, 2005 issue of Wal-Mart World, the internal company newsletter that is read by

Against all norms of social convention, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. yelled “fire” in a crowded theater this past week, after viewing the Robert Greenwald film, “The

In response to “Higher Expectations Week,” a blitz of events all across the country aimed at Wal-Mart’s business model, the over-built retailer issued the following

Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott said last week that his company “didn’t get where we are today by being like everyone else and driving the middle

Are you in good physical shape, and looking for a job that will last a year or two? Consider the benefits of working at Wal-Mart.

The business media this week swallowed whole a story cooked up by Wal-Mart’s “kindler, gentler” PR team that the giant retailer will be offering its

Great news for Sprawl-Busters across the nation from Wal-Mart today! The retailer told the media today that it will open fewer stores this coming year,

What does a pair of underwear, boots made out of snake skin, a Bloody Mary mix, and a pair of headphones have to do with

Wal-Mart has apparently come up with a creative way to get rid of a trouble-maker. Wal-Mart is being sued by one of its former employees

Whenever things go wrong in a community for Wal-Mart, their local spokespersons have a very narrow script to work from. When in doubt, Wal-Mart “community

Activists across the country are organizing an effort to keep shoppers out of Wal-Mart stores this fall when they stock up on back-to-school supplies. Wal-Mart

A press release issued by Wal-Mart on September 17th. regarding the aftermath of Hurrican Ivan may have the effect of bringing more shoppers to their

Wal-Mart is up to its briefs in legal problems, but the company wasted no time this week, in the middle of its hyped Annual Meeting,