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Walmart Tests Online Grocery Service

People in San Jose can order on the Internet for home delivery

(Newser) - The online grocery business is small-scale right now, but the potential for growth just got a lot better: Walmart is taking a stab at it. The chain announced it is testing a "Walmart To Go" service in San Jose, California, reports Reuters . Customers can order groceries from the store...

Driverless Tractor Set Loose in Walmart Lot

Video is sure to go viral, Mashable notes

(Newser) - Mashable points to the latest sure-to-go-viral video: A driverless tractor running loose in a Walmart parking lot, wreaking exactly the type of havoc you’d expect. The video, from a Canadian store, does show how the tractor is eventually stopped. On Mashable, Charlie White has to wonder “why...

Walmart: Too Big to Sue?
 Walmart: Too Big to Sue? 
Mar 29, 2011 11:33 AM CDT

Walmart: Too Big to Sue?

Company says it's too big to be sued by 1.5M female employees

(Newser) - Walmart will go before the Supreme Court today and argue that it is simply too big to face a class action gender discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of some 1.5 million current and former female employees. “They have brought a case that implicates 3,400 stores around the...

Walmart Suffering Biggest-Ever Slump

Execs admit retail giant lost its way

(Newser) - Walmart is suffering its worst-ever slump in US sales and is widely expected to post more disappointing figures when it reports earnings today. Analysts say the retail giant's woes are the result of its failure to follow founder Sam Walton's formula of providing ordinary Americans with "every day low...

Wal-Mart Fires 4 Employees Who Disarmed Gunman

They're brave, but that violates store policy

(Newser) - Wal-Mart is a stickler for store policy: It fired four employees in Utah after they disarmed a convicted felon who pulled a gun on them. After the employees saw the man try to shoplift a netbook, they escorted him to a store office, reports AoL News . There, he pulled out...

Here's Your Acronym for a Healthier Diet: ERF

 Here's Your Acronym 
 for a Healthier Diet: ERF 

mark bittman
Feb 9, 2011 1:52 PM CST

Here's Your Acronym for a Healthier Diet: ERF

As in Eat Real Food, writes Mark Bittman

(Newser) - America's taking baby steps toward eating a diet of real food, writes Mark Bittman in the New York Times. He rounds up a trio developments—the USDA urging people to eat less , Michelle Obama teaming up with Walmart , and Oprah challenging her staff to go vegan for a week. All...

Michelle Obama's Next Target: Restaurant Industry
Next on Michelle's Hit List:
Restaurant Industry
PORTION CONTROL
Feb 7, 2011 6:34 PM CST

Next on Michelle's Hit List: Restaurant Industry

First lady to prod restaurateurs for smaller portions

(Newser) - Michelle Obama is taking her next shot at obesity, calling on the National Restaurant Association to enact nutrition reforms similar to those she has worked out with Walmart and the nation's schools, the New York Times reports. The first lady is pushing for restaurants to serve smaller portions and make...

Historians Battle Wal-Mart Over Civil War Site

Local officials have approved new store location in northern Virginia

(Newser) - Renowned historians and preservationists are primed to take on Wal-Mart in a legal battle over the placement of a new store: in a rural northern Virginia town next to the site of a key Civil War battle. Wal-Mart won approval for the location from a local board in 2009, but...

Wal-Mart to Make Its Food Healthier

It teams with Michelle Obama, who declares 'victory for our children'

(Newser) - Wal-Mart is embarking on a plan that could have a big impact on American nutrition: It will modify its house brand to make the food healthier, and lower costs for items such as fruits and veggies, and products made with whole grain. The initiative is the result of collaboration with...

Why Is One School Taking a Field Trip to Walmart?
Why Is One School Taking
a Field Trip to Walmart?
OPINION
Jan 20, 2011 12:01 PM CST

Why Is One School Taking a Field Trip to Walmart?

It could be a learning experience, but not the way they're doing it

(Newser) - Field trips just aren’t what they used to be. Case in point: In his Roanoke Times column, Dan Casey points to an elementary school field trip to … a Walmart opening. “It’s an experience form of field trip,” the principal explains to him, because the students...

Customer, Century-Old Wal-Mart Greeter Scuffle

But it's right back to work for Lois Speelman after customer dispute

(Newser) - Lois Speelman may be 100 years old, but she’s not letting a dispute with a customer that left her “stiff and sore” keep her from going back to work this week. Speelman was working as a Wal-Mart greeter in Milwaukee Sunday when she tried to make sure that...

Walmart Rolls Out Free Shipping

No minimum purchase. Online retailers gulp.

(Newser) - Walmart just got cheaper: The retail giant today rolls out free shipping on its website with no minimum purchase, reports the New York Times. With cost-conscious consumers 55% somewhat likely to back out of a purchase if they have to pay for shipping, the move puts a ton of pressure...

Wal-Mart to Storm Big Cities With Small Stores

Retailer makes a pitch to urban America

(Newser) - Wal-Mart is looking to take Manhattan—as well as large US cities—by opening a slew of small- and mid-sized stores in urban America, the Wall Street Journal reports. Wal-Marts as small as 30,000 square feet—six times smaller than the average "supercenter"—are headed to unfamiliar...

iPad Coming to Wal-Mart This Month
iPad Coming to Wal-Mart
This Month
Oct 9, 2010 1:25 PM CDT

iPad Coming to Wal-Mart This Month

Apple covering all bases ahead of holiday shopping season

(Newser) - Because those Christmas rushes on Wal-Mart weren't crazy enough: The world's largest retailer will have the world's most popular tech gadget on shelves in plenty of time for the holiday shopping season, reports MacRumors . A company email sent to store managers says about 1,000 stores will be carrying the...

Wal-Mart Sells Anti-Gay Kids' Book
Wal-Mart
Sells Anti-Gay Kids' Book
Oct 8, 2010 12:44 PM CDT

Wal-Mart Sells Anti-Gay Kids' Book

Its big lesson: Homosexuality is a sin that can be overcome

(Newser) - Wal-Mart is selling a book for kids and parents that makes the case that homosexuals can overcome their "sin" and revert to heterosexuality, Q Salt Lake reports. Chased by an Elephant, the Gospel Truth about Today’s Stampeding Sexuality is by Janice Barrett Graham—the wife of Stephen Graham,...

Medical Marijuana May Cost You Your Job

Companies say buzzed employees are a 'safety issue'

(Newser) - Talk about a buzzkill: Americans using doctor-prescribed marijuana are losing their jobs when they, somewhat predictably, fail drug tests. Though medical marijuana is now legal in 14 states, it remains unclear if employers are legally bound to keep pot-toking employees, notes the New York Times . '“It’s a safety...

Wal-Mart Asks Supreme Court to Block Gender Bias Suit

Mammoth suit shouldn't go to trial, company argues

(Newser) - America's biggest retailer wants the Supreme Court to reverse a decision exposing it to America's biggest class-action employment lawsuit. Wal-Mart has asked the court to overturn a decision from a lower court allowing a massive gender discrimination suit against it to proceed, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The plaintiff class...

Don't Touch That Receipt! It May Be Toxic
Don't Touch That Receipt!
It May Be Toxic
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Jul 31, 2010 6:00 AM CDT

Don't Touch That Receipt! It May Be Toxic

40% of receipts tested were slathered with bisphenol A

(Newser) - Sheesh: The same toxic chemical—bisphenol A—that's shown up in baby bottles and canned goods is apparently also all over the receipts you get from stores and restaurants, and in much greater amounts. BPA was found in the coating used on cash register receipts in 40% of businesses tested,...

Wal-Mart Will Track Your Undies
 Wal-Mart Will Track Your Undies 
Jul 23, 2010 5:57 AM CDT

Wal-Mart Will Track Your Undies

Privacy advocates slam garment chips

(Newser) - Wal-Mart's plans to insert a tracking chip inside individual pairs of jeans and underwear has privacy advocates worried. The retail giant says the RFID chips will make inventory control much more efficient, but privacy groups warn that the chips—which can be removed, but not turned off—could be misused...

Wal-Mart Sued Over Medical Pot Firing

Worker sacked for using prescribed pot for cancer

(Newser) - The ACLU is suing Wal-Mart on behalf of a Michigan man fired for using medical marijuana to ease the symptoms of sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor. Joseph Casias, a 30-year-old father of two, was fired after failing a drug test. Casias—a legally registered user of medicinal marijuana...

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