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WATCH: Walmart Is Discontinuing Some Ammo Sales. Here's Why It Matters

Sep 04, 2019
Not all bullets are created equal. This video compares the damage caused by different kinds of rounds.
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A Walmart logo forms part of a sign outside a Walmart store, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019, in Walpole, Mass. Walmart is going back to its folksy hunting heritage and getting rid of anything that's not related to a hunting rifle after a mass shooting this summe
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Walmart Curbs Ammunition Sales, Calls For Stronger Background Checks

Sep 03, 2019
Walmart will phase out handgun and short-barrel rifle ammunition. It's also restricting "open carry" in stores. A month ago, two shootings happened at two Walmarts in one week.
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Business
Walmart has instructed employees to remove marketing material that displays violent imagery and to unplug or turn off video game consoles that show violent games.
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Walmart Bans Violent Imagery, But Not Gun Sales

Aug 09, 2019
Following shootings at two store locations, Walmart said in an internal memo that it would take down all imagery and stop playing videos that depicted violence.
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Law
Formal charges of making a terrorist threat in the first degree are pending against Dmitriy Andreychenko, 20, police say.
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Rifle-Carrying Man Arrested After Causing Panic At Walmart In Missouri

Aug 09, 2019
Formal charges of making a terrorist threat in the first degree are pending against a 20-year-old, who police say wanted to cause chaos, as opposed to kill people.
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Obituaries
Gloria Garces kneels in front of crosses at a makeshift memorial near the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex Tuesday in El Paso, Texas.
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Stories Of El Paso Shooting Victims Show Acts Of Self-Sacrifice Amid Massacre

Aug 06, 2019
At least 22 people died, including citizens of the U.S., Mexico and Germany.
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Business
Walmart and Amazon began offering online purchases with food stamps in April as part of the USDA's pilot program. Now, both companies are expanding services for low-income shoppers.
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Using Food Stamps For Online Grocery Shopping Is Getting Easier

Jun 26, 2019
Walmart is expanding a program for food stamp recipients to buy groceries online and pick them up in stores. It's the latest move to give them more options in the era of online shopping.
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Ethan Roberts, a rising high school senior, works at a Walmart in Fayette County, Ga. He says he plans to take advantage of the company's new benefit that will pay for standardized test preparation.
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High Schoolers Who Work At Walmart Will See A New Perk — SAT And ACT Study Help

Jun 06, 2019
With a tight labor market, Walmart and other companies are adding new kinds of benefits to attract workers. Now, the giant retailer is offering to pay for prep courses for the SAT and ACT.
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Shots - Health News
Errors in reading diagnostic images like MRIs or CT scans can lead to unnecessary and costly medical procedures. Walmart is pushing its employees to use a vetted list of high-quality imaging centers to avoid errors.
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To Improve Health, Cut Costs, Walmart Pushes For Better Medical Imaging For Workers

May 17, 2019
To cut down on unnecessary procedures — and health costs — Walmart is pushing its workers to get more accurate diagnoses by using diagnostic imaging centers known for high quality, not low price.
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In February, Justin Kelley was among the workers at about 1,000 Walmarts who learned that their jobs as people greeters would be eliminated. Like Kelley, many of them were workers with disabilities who found themselves in limbo.
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'My Whole Life Is On Hold': As Walmart Eliminates Greeters, A Dream In Limbo

Apr 25, 2019
Justin Kelley was among workers who learned their jobs as greeters would be cut. As the Floridian waited 49 days to hear if he could stay with Walmart, he worried he would have to give up his dream.
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In a memo to store managers, Walmart U.S. CEO Greg Foran said the company is looking for other roles for greeters with disabilities who are due to lose their jobs.
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Walmart Chief Responds To Furor Over Treatment Of Greeters With Disabilities

Mar 01, 2019
Store managers are told to make "every effort" to offer new job options as the greeter position goes away. Workers and their families tell NPR about chaos and anxiety of being in limbo.
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Business
John Combs is a "people greeter" at a Walmart in Vancouver, Wash. But he has been told that come April 25, his job is going away. And he is not alone.
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Walmart Is Eliminating Greeters. Workers With Disabilities Feel Targeted

Feb 25, 2019
NPR has found that Walmart is changing the job requirements for front-door greeters in a way that appears to disproportionately affect workers with disabilities.
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a federal lawsuit in Wisconsin on Friday against Walmart Inc. for alleged unlawful discrimination against pregnant employees.
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Federal Commission Sues Walmart For Alleged Discrimination Against Pregnant Employees

Sep 21, 2018
The complaint, filed on behalf of Alyssa Gilliam, claims Walmart failed to assign pregnant employees to light duty to save them from heavy lifting, as it does for workers with other disabilities.
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More companies are stepping in to help their workers with a much cheaper way to get some emergency cash than payday loans.
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Walmart And Others Offer Workers Payday Loan Alternative

Aug 16, 2018
When lower-income working Americans have an unexpected expense, many turn to high-cost loans and get in financial trouble. More employers are giving them a much cheaper way to get emergency cash.
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Waymo self-driving cars will be used to chauffeur "early riders" to and from their Walmart online grocery pickup location.
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Walmart To Test Self-Driving Cars For Grocery Pickup Service

Jul 25, 2018
Some customers in the Phoenix metro area will be able to use a driverless shuttle service to pick up groceries at Walmart — if they purchase them online.
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The Two-Way
A pharmacist speaks with a customer at Walmart Neighborhood Market in Bentonville, Ark., in 2014. On Monday Walmart introduced a new set of guidelines for dispensing opioid medications.
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Walmart Will Implement New Opioid Prescription Limits By End Of Summer

May 08, 2018
The giant pharmacy chain introduced new rules restricting painkiller prescriptions to 7 days and putting a cap on dosage strength. Pharmacies will carry an overdose antidote wherever it's legal.
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The Salt
Composting food scraps is one way to reduce food waste, but preventing excess food in the first place is better, says the EPA.
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Grocery Stores Get Mostly Mediocre Scores On Their Food Waste Efforts

Apr 16, 2018
A new report, "Supermarkets Fail to Make the Grade in Reducing Food Waste," scores the 10 largest grocery stores on how they handle food waste. No store got an A, but Walmart got a B.
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The Two-Way
A <em>Cosmopolitan</em> magazine from November 1976. Since being rebranded as a women's magazine in 1965, it has become a mainstay of shopping aisles. Walmart said Tuesday it is removing <em>Cosmo</em> from its check-out lines.
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Walmart To Remove 'Cosmopolitan' From Checkout Aisle

Mar 28, 2018
The retail giant said Tuesday that Cosmo would be relegated to the magazine rack of its U.S. stores. The move follows complaints over what critics say is the magazine's "hyper-sexualized" content.
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The Two-Way
Shoppers look at televisions at a Walmart during Black Friday sales in 2012 in Quincy, Mass.
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In Push For Convenience, Walmart Wants To Help Shoppers Assemble Furniture, Mount TVs

Mar 19, 2018
Walmart has partnered with the app Handy to link customers with home-services professionals. Major retail companies are in a big movement, trying to become more than just places that sell you things.
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The Two-Way
A woman pushing a stroller walks in front of a Rakuten Cafe store at a shopping district in Tokyo in 2014. Rakuten is Japan's largest e-commerce company.
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Walmart To Launch Online Grocery Delivery In Japan, E-Book Sales In U.S.

Jan 26, 2018
The U.S. retailing giant is partnering with Japan's biggest e-commerce company with the aim of advancing in a competitive international market. Walmart has also announced layoffs at its headquarters.
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The Two-Way
On Wednesday Walmart began distributing a new solution to help customers dispose of leftover opioid prescriptions. But CDC says, just flush them down the toilet.
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Walmart Offers Product To Destroy Leftover Opioids, But Critics Say It's Unnecessary

Jan 17, 2018
The company billed it as a "first-of-its-kind" item that lets customers turn extra opioid painkillers into trash, but the CDC says just flush the medicine down the toilet.
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The Two-Way
Customers shop at a Walmart store in January 2017 in Skokie, Ill.
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Walmart, Citing New Tax Law, Will Raise Starting Wages; Also Closes 63 Sam's Clubs

Jan 11, 2018
The retail giant says the changes are a way to share tax savings with hourly workers. Starting wages will rise from $10 an hour to $11, and employees will also be eligible for one-time bonuses.
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The Two-Way
Three people were shot dead in a Thornton, Colo., Walmart on Wednesday night, and police arrested the suspected gunman one day later.
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Police Capture Suspect In Deadly Walmart Shooting In Colorado

Nov 02, 2017
A day after three customers were killed inside the suburban Denver store, authorities have made an arrest.
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The Two-Way
Amazon's Alexa-powered Echo currently dominates in voice-activated speakers.
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Walmart, Google Join Forces In Online Fight Against Amazon

Aug 23, 2017
The world's largest retailer will hawk its products on Google Express for the first time, in a play to get a bigger chunk of the growing voice-enabled shopping market currently dominated by Amazon.
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The Salt
Wade Dooley, in Albion, Iowa, uses less fertilizer than most farmers because he grows rye and alfalfa, along with corn and soybeans. "This field [of rye] has not been fertilized at all," he says.
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Does 'Sustainability' Help The Environment Or Just Agriculture's Public Image?

Aug 22, 2017
Big food companies like Walmart want farmers to reduce greenhouse emissions from nitrogen fertilizer. But the best-known program to accomplish this may not be having much effect.
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Anhydrous ammonia tanks in a newly planted wheat field.  Walmart has promised big cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases. To meet that goal, though, the giant retailer may have to persuade farmers to use less fertilizer. It won't be easy.
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Can Anyone, Even Walmart, Stem The Heat-Trapping Flood Of Nitrogen On Farms?

Aug 21, 2017
Walmart has promised big cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases. To meet that goal, though, the giant retailer may have to persuade farmers to use less fertilizer. It won't be easy.
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