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Coupon Failure Causes Irate Walmart Shopper to Wave Gun at Employees

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:24:24 +0000

As it turns out, the customer is not always right. A Crawfordsville, Florida woman was arrested last week after she pulled a gun on Walmart employees when the store refused to take a coupon she had. After an employee told Mary Frances Almay, 61, they couldn’t accept her coupon, she lost her cool. Almay yelled [...]

Wal-Mart Plans to Hire 100,000 Veterans

Chris Chaberski — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:03:45 +0000

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.

Secret Santa Picks Up Family's Walmart Bill

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:47:29 +0000

On the Friday before Christmas, Ruby Modlin was grocery shopping at Walmart with her family. The Altoona, Iowa woman noticed that a man was following her around the store. Being a glass-half-filled type of gal Modlin figured it must be somebody who recognized her — maybe from high school. “I kept noticing this man, and [...]

Walmart Employees Confront Shoplifter, Shoplifter Winds Up Dead

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:08:26 +0000

An unidentified man has died after a confrontation with two Walmart employees and a contract security guard at the superstore’s Lithonia, Georgia, location. At 1:30 Sunday morning the man exited through the front door of the store with two DVD players he allegedly hadn’t paid for. The trio then tracked him down in the parking lot and jumped on top [...]

2012 Black Friday Deals, Steals and Business Hours in Abilene

Frank Pain — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:10:47 +0000

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year. Primarily because of all of the insane savings the local and national retail stores offer. As we get closer to Black Friday stores will begin to unveil their discounts and hours of operation. Just bookmark this page and check back [...]

Walmart Tests iPhone App to Speed Up Checkout Process

Mike Adams — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:14:30 +0000

Walmart, the world’s largest retail chain, is currently testing a “scan and go” iPhone application that would allow customers to scan items as they shop and pay more quickly and conveniently at a self-checkout counter. The app was tested earlier this week at a supercenter in Rogers, Arkansas, using store employees as well as their friends [...]

Walmart Rolls Out Smaller 'Express' Stores — Dollars and Sense

Shauna Wright — Wed, 30 May 2012 15:55:43 +0000

Because Walmart doesn’t yet blanket enough of the US (and beyond), the retailer is now rolling out smaller versions of itself called Walmart Express stores. And they already seem quite profitable. The locations are a fraction of the size of their bigger, often behemoth-sized counterparts, and Walmart’s US President and CEO Bill Simon describes them [...]

Wal-Martians Song Pays Tribute To The People Of Wal-Mart [VIDEO]

Rudy Fernandez — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:07:30 +0000

With Halloween drawing nearer, the Zombies or rather the People of Wal-Mart will soon be at a Super Center near you. We've all either seen the emails with the pictures or have gone to the People of Wal-Mart website for verification that you own picture was not posted. Now we can add to the mix, a song written and performed by David S. Thomas, that touts The People of Wal-Mart and will have you singing along by at least the third verse, and like the People of Wal-Mart you don't even have to sing on key. Good luck!

Woman Wins 2 Cent Discrepancy Case Against Wal-Mart [VIDEO]

Shay Hill — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:17:11 +0000

A woman has been overcharged more than once at Wal-Mart and decided it was time to do something about it. She went to court against super chain store Wal-Mart and guess what? She won! Mary Bach, an AARP Consumer Advocate, went to Wal-Mart and bought some groceries. She bought a package of sausages that were [...]

Wal-mart Shutting Down Mp3 Store

Rudy Fernandez — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:29:22 +0000

Yes, the times they must be hard, when you hear headlines like "Wal-mart Shutters Mp3 Store After 7 Years." I never thought that I would hear the words, closing-down and Wal-mart in the same sentence. Here's the real scoop. Although Wal-mart made a run at the "digital" world by setting up a "Wal-mart digital store."It was pretty much in my opinion was, well, Wally-World just jumping on the bandwagon to capture an already captured market. Captured by the giant Apple.

'American Idol' Contestants Release Exclusive Walmart EPs

Jeff Giles — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:48:51 +0000

Attention, Walmart shoppers: You can now relive your favorite musical moments from the most recent season of ‘American Idol’ with a series of exclusive EPs from the top four contestants.

Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Haley Reinhart, and James Durbin have all released ‘American Idol Season 10 Highlights’ EPs, offering five tracks apiece for the low, low price of $5.

West Texas Wildfires Continue To Burn-Up Cash And Property [VIDEO]

Rudy Fernandez — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:47:17 +0000

West Texas wildfires continue to burn-up everything in it’s path. Many of the volunteer fire departments have run out of money or are about to run out of the funds necessary to continue operating during the out of control wildfires. The fire departments’ ladies auxiliary or other members in the communities are arranging all types [...]

We Need Some Rules At Wal-mart

Rudy Fernandez — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 02:49:39 +0000

We have all seen the pictures of the “People Of Wal-mart” where they seem to wear what ever they want. Well that’s not my gripe…We need some “Wal-mart Restroom Rules”! Here’s why; I’m in the Wal-mart restroom. It seemed empty at first and as I walk to the nearest to the door urinal, (as I [...]