A surveillance camera caught the attempted abduction of a child inside a Georgia Wal-Mart.
A 7-year-old Georgia girl fought off a man who'd grabbed her in the aisle of a Walmart, with police eventually tracking down the suspect they accuse of attempted kidnapping.
The California State Teachers' Retirement System has filed a derivative action lawsuit against current and former Wal-Mart executives and board members for the firm's alleged bribery in Mexico and a subsequent corporate coverup, the system said Friday.
Did Wal-Mart's Mexican subsidiary pay bribes, in 2005 and earlier, to the Mexican officials who grant permits for stores like Wal-Mart? And did Wal-Mart cover up these actions for several years, after an internal investigation discovered the bribes, before finally reporting the internal investigation to the Department of Justice and the SEC last December?
Mexican authorities have opened an investigation into permits issued to Wal-Mart in light of allegations that the retail giant bribed officials in Mexico to speed up store construction.
Wal-Mart's stock price dropped Monday, after bribery allegations concerning the retailer's Mexican operations surfaced over the weekend.
Wal-Mart is investigating its operations in Mexico to determine whether there were violations of the U.S. law that prohibits giving bribes to international officials, the company said in a statement.
Fortune: Wal-Mart's makeoverupdated: Mon Mar 05 2012 13:17:00
What happened to the smiley face? It's long gone from Wal-Mart marketing after years as the corporate symbol, and its disappearance is part of a much larger story. It's hard to believe, but for decades the world's largest retailer wasn't much of a marketer. It spent little on marketing, and its efforts, epitomized by the grinning circle, could be charitably called down-home and realistically described as amateurish. Change finally began four years ago when Stephen Quinn was made chief marketing officer of Wal-Mart U.S. He exiled the smiley face to the land of e-mail emoticons and developed a new theme -- "Save money. Live better" -- that became a statement of corporate purpose. Current TV commercials actually include some wit while hammering home the message.
Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, finished the biggest quarter of its fiscal year with a mixed picture.
Walmart is taking a 51% stake in Yihaodian, a leading Chinese e-commerce website, in a significant move by the U.S. retailer to boost its online presence in China.
Wal-Mart has launched an "American Idol"-like contest to find the best new products.
Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, says it's investigating whether its workers violated international bribery laws.
The shopper who allegedly fired pepper spray at other Wal-Mart patrons during Black Friday turns herself into police.
A southern California woman accused of pepper-spraying video-game shoppers in a Walmart on Black Friday will not face felony charges, prosecutors said.
An Arizona police department will conduct an investigation into the bloody arrest of a 54-year-old grandfather during a Black Friday sale at a Walmart, an assistant police chief said Saturday.
A southern California woman turned herself in to authorities as the person who pepper sprayed video-game shoppers in a Walmart during Black Friday's shopping frenzy, Los Angeles police said Saturday.
Black Friday brings out the worst in some shoppers as bargain hunters come out by the masses. Karin Caifa reports.
Violence marred Black Friday shopping in at least seven states, including California, where police say a woman doused fellow shoppers with pepper spray in a bid to snag a discounted video game console.
Larger -- and younger -- crowds jammed the nation's malls and big box stores on Black Friday, as a new generation got in on one of the biggest sales days of the year.
Violence marred Black Friday shopping in at least five states, including a California incident in which police say a woman doused fellow shoppers with pepper spray in a bid to cut to the head of the line.
Big-box stores are stealing Thanksgiving, and their workers aren't happy about it. After Target decreed that Black Friday would start at midnight Thanksgiving night and that employees must report to work at 11 p.m., an Omaha worker, Anthony Hardwick, posted a petition at Change.org asking the company to move the official start of Christmas shopping back to 5 a.m. Friday. Response from workers and others has been stellar: 192,000 signatures by Monday.
Millions of current and former Netflix customers woke up Wednesday to an e-mail about a class-action lawsuit involving the price of online DVD rentals.
Wal-Mart's same-store sales crept up in recent months, reversing last year's losses and trumping expectations, prompting the world's largest retailer to provide a sunny forecast for the holidays.
Wal-Mart is giving shoppers an early look at its Black Friday deals for the first time this year, well before Thanksgiving.
They're pulling in fat paychecks, but now they're also homeless.
Seeing major competition and a troubled economy in its holiday forecast, Wal-Mart Stores announced a holiday price guarantee program for its U.S. stores Monday.
Pulled over for speeding in a construction zone, Alice Walton paid $1,000 bail
Everyone to the left of Michele Bachmann seems to agree that America's most immediate problem isn't the budget deficit, but the jobs deficit.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. suffered a ninth straight drop in its U.S. store sales last quarter, even as it reported earnings and sales in the period that were higher from a year earlier.
South Africa's government is calling for more guarantees that Walmart's foray into the country will not hit local suppliers and cause job losses. One minister has even described the retail giant's buying power as a threat to food security. The world's biggest retailer announced in June that it had completed its $2.4 billion acquisition of a majority stake in local firm Massmart after winning approval from South Africa's Competition Tribunal.
Walmart's acquisition of South African company Massmart has received opposition in the country as fear rises for local suppliers.
Now you can stream online video the Walmart way.
Wal-Mart must be hoping that the third time's a charm: It announced Tuesday that it is launching an in-house movie streaming service directly on Walmart.com.
Two years ago this month, Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke dropped a bomb on the retailing world by announcing that the company would spearhead an audacious effort to create a "sustainability index" that would reassure the environmental and social impact of every product sold in its stores. Though the move was generally praised by environmentalists, Wal-Mart had not suddenly turned green -- it turns out a vast amount of money is to be made by reducing energy and waste up and down the supply chain. As the world's largest company, Wal-Mart had the clout to enforce its implied threat, later made explicit by Duke's lieutenants: Treat the planet well and get prime access to its 200 million customers each week; pollute and despoil, and you will be shunned.
For the first time in its history, the nation's largest retailer Wal-Mart is providing free legal support for patients at the Arkansas Children's Hospital, many of whom are from low income families on Medicaid.
The Supreme Court decided against allowing a class-action suit against Wal-Mart. CNN's Jeffrey Toobin explains why.
The Supreme Court put the brakes on a massive job discrimination lawsuit against mega-retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc., saying the plaintiffs had not shown justification for sweeping class-action status that could have potentially involved hundreds of thousands of current and former female workers.
For those of us educated in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education, it's hard not to endow the Supreme Court with awesome powers to wield on behalf of goodness and light. But Dukes vs. Wal-Mart, the massive sex discrimination suit against the nation's largest private employer, has been a painful lesson in the limitations of the courtroom remedy.
Wal-Mart reported better-than-expected quarterly profit and revenue Tuesday, although its U.S. store sales continued to decline as higher gas, energy and food prices ate away at its customers' paychecks.
Wal-Mart's CEO, Mike Duke, shocked an industry gathering recently when he said a majority of the retailer's products are now made in the United States.
Wal-Mart's core shoppers are running out of money much faster than a year ago due to rising gasoline prices, and the retail giant is worried, CEO Mike Duke said Wednesday.
Wal-Mart said Thursday that it is bringing guns back to many of its U.S. stores in an effort to lift slumping sales.
Wal-Mart, stung by an embarrassingly long sales slump, is finally ready to do something about it.
Police in Maryland are on the hunt for the perpetrator of what appears to be an April Fools' Day prank that left a man glued to a toilet at a Wal-Mart store.
In perhaps one of the most closely watched cases on its docket, the Supreme Court yesterday heard oral argument in the largest employment class-action litigation ever.
Female workers suing Wal-Mart for workplace discrimination faced an uphill battle at the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Female workers suing retail giant Wal-Mart Stores for workplace discrimination faced an uphill battle at the Supreme Court on Tuesday in their efforts to proceed in a massive class-action lawsuit.
Attorneys for Wal-mart are at the Supreme Court Tuesday, fighting a suit filed by female employees claiming gender bias.
Love Wal-Mart but hate running across its football-field-sized stores for a tube of toothpaste? Now you don't have to.
Wal-Mart's slogan may be "Save Money. Live Better," but rival Target is challenging it by offering even lower prices on everyday products.
It doesn't take a financial analyst to sense when a retail chain is in trouble. You walk into a store, and it feels too big and bright, given the dearth of people in the aisles. Workers in polo shirts mill around aimlessly, waiting to pounce on the scant shoppers. You're only there because you couldn't wait for an online delivery and you don't live near a Wal-Mart or Costco.
Despite aggressive price-slashing, free shipping and other gimmicks, Wal-Mart lost shoppers during the critical Christmas shopping period, resulting in a same-store sales decline in its fourth quarter.
The retailer known for being virtually ubiquitous everywhere but in America's largest city is poised to change that, despite fierce opposition from New York City's small businesses and elected officials.
China has accused Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, and its French competitor Carrefour of price gouging and misleading consumers by advertising false discounts on goods sold in their stores.
With the help of First Lady Michelle Obama, Wal-Mart vowed Thursday to start selling healthier food.
If online retailers think slashing prices to the bone is the best -- and only way -- to grab holiday shoppers this year, they're mistaken.
Wal-Mart is recalling more than two million electric heaters because of a "fire and burn hazard," the company said Thursday.
While your 8-year-old might not be coding websites or whizzing through Excel spreadsheets just yet, it's not too soon to get him or her a tech-driven gift this holiday season.
Modeled on U.S. stores, Nakumatt supermarkets offer a new shopping experience for middle-class Kenyans.
It was a trip to the United States in the 1980s that inspired Kenyan entrepreneur Atul Shah to emulate the American superstore experience back in his homeland.
The Supreme Court takes on a bias case filed against Wal-Mart that has widespread implications. CNN's Mary Snow reports.
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether to certify the largest class-action employment lawsuit in U.S. history, a long-standing dispute against mega-retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. over alleged gender bias in pay and promotions.
Walmart will join the Department of Homeland Security in a program called "If You See Something, Say Something" which encourages the American public to take an active role in ensuring the safety and security of the nation, DHS said Monday.
Larger-than-expected crowds jammed the nation's malls and discounters on Black Friday, elbowing each other in the race for the biggest deals on one of the biggest sales days of the year.
U.S. stocks tumbled Tuesday, with all three major indexes down nearly 2%, as investors cast a worried eye at economic developments in Europe and China.
U.S. stocks were set to open lower Tuesday as investors cast a worried eye at economic developments in Europe.
Wal-Mart Stores posted third-quarter profit of $3.4 billion and raised its full-year guidance Tuesday, in a closely watched report that could shed some light on consumer spending.
Wal-Mart announced free online shipping Thursday on 60,000 holiday items with no minimum purchase required, a significant move that's likely to rattle its competitors in the crucial year-end sales race to Christmas.
Wal-Mart's highly awaited Black Friday ad promises hot deals on high-definition TVs, Blu-ray players, laptops and holiday gift favorites such as toys and DVDs, according to a copy of the retailer's circular obtained by CNNMoney.com on Saturday.
A gunman who opened fire on his co-workers at a Walmart in Reno, Nevada, was arrested without incident Friday after a six-hour standoff with authorities, Reno police said.
Wal-Mart's CEO told analysts Wednesday that although the world's largest retailer has been losing sales to its competitors this year, he expects sales to improve in the critical holiday shopping season.
Wal-Mart Stores, the largest private sector employer in the country, announced major changes to retirement, medical and profit-sharing benefits it offers its 1.4 million workers.
U.S. stock futures climbed early Monday, boosted by a flurry of deal activity and economic optimism.
A Wal-Mart Stores data system failure left shoppers unable to use some credit and debit cards on Thursday, a spokesman for the world's largest retailer said.
Keeping your fingers crossed for a temp job during the holiday shopping rush?
Attention T-shirt fans: Bag those deep discounts now because come January, stores could have you paying more for your favorite clothing.
One year after Wal-Mart launched an ambitious plan to help its suppliers track their energy and materials use and carbon emissions, the effort has officially become a trend among corporate multinationals.
It wasn't much of a honeymoon. Less than a year after Wal-Mart's new chief executive, Mike Duke, took control of the world's biggest company, he was faced with a not-so-little problem. Shortly before he became CEO in early 2009, Wal-Mart had announced, with great fanfare, Project Impact -- a plan to freshen up the stores and make them a better place to shop. For the most part it worked pretty well. The stores were cleaner and brighter, the logo's blue and yellow color scheme was warmer and more appealing, and the company embraced a catchy new slogan: "Save money. Live better." Even the yellow smiley face was dropped in favor of a perky new "spark" resembling a twinkly star. Nice.
It wasn't much of a honeymoon. Less than a year after Wal-Mart's new chief executive, Mike Duke, took control of the world's biggest company, he was faced with a not-so-little problem. Shortly before he became CEO in early 2009, Wal-Mart had announced, with great fanfare, Project Impact -- a plan to freshen up the stores and make them a better place to shop. For the most part it worked pretty well. The stores were cleaner and brighter, the logo's blue and yellow color scheme was warmer and more appealing, and the company embraced a catchy new slogan: "Save money. Live better." Even the yellow smiley face was dropped in favor of a perky new "spark" resembling a twinkly star. Nice.
Wal-Mart has asked the Supreme Court to stop a massive gender discrimination suit that has dragged on for years, the company said Wednesday. The suit is the largest class-action employment discrimination case in U.S. history.
Stocks rallied Tuesday after a Federal Reserve regional president said fears about the central bank's outlook were "unwarranted" and investors shifted their focus to strong earnings from Wal-Mart and Home Depot.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported a slightly better-than-expected second-quarter profit but missed sales estimates Tuesday, as customers of the world's largest retailer continued to curb spending. The company also raised its guidance for the full fiscal year.
U.S. stock futures rose early Tuesday in reaction to financial results from retail behemoth Wal-Mart and a wave of economic data.
Watch out AT&T, Sprint and Verizon: A whole host of super-fast wireless services could be coming down the pike.
On July 1, Nestlé, a company with no experience in retailing and even less in shipbuilding, launched a 90-foot-long barge on an 18-day journey up the Amazon River in Brazil. The barge -- called Nestlé Até Você a Bordo, or Nestlé Takes You Onboard -- is stocked with more than 300 Nestlé brands, including Leche Ideal (enhanced powdered milk), Maggi (soups and seasonings), and, of course, Nescafé (the world's leading instant coffee). Small, low-priced packages of each will be showcased in river ports that are home to 800,000 Brazilians who usually travel by boat, if at all. "We are going to pick up the customer where he is," Ivan Zurita, CEO of Nestlé Brasil, has said.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart for the termination of a Michigan employee whose doctor verified his illness qualified for medical marijuana use.
America's biggest banks are in retreat, tightening lending, increasing fees, and closing branches. But one company still wants to become your neighborhood bank: Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Friday it plans to create 500,000 jobs throughout the world in the next five years, saying there is tremendous opportunity for growth globally.
Wal-Mart employees will soon be able to earn college credit for their on-the-job training and experience, the world's largest retailer announced Thursday.
Costco is the best place to shop in the United States in terms of prices, value and shopping experience, according to a recent survey of Consumer Reports' readers.
It certainly looks like happy days are here again. Many of the nation's biggest retailers, including Saks, Hewlett-Packard, Home Depot, and Target have released cheery sales reports. April's jobs reports showing a slight increase in the workweek and pay for workers, and more hiring across the board.
Stocks slumped Tuesday as the euro touched a fresh four-year low versus the dollar, keeping Europe's woes front and center and overshadowing better-than-expected earnings from big U.S. retailers.
Wal-Mart reported record first-quarter sales and profits Tuesday that beat analyst expectations. Shares of the world's largest retailer rose more than 2% on the news.
Wal-Mart and its charitable foundation will commit $2 billion to help fight hunger in the United States, the company said Wednesday.
Goldman Sachs has a public relations problem; of that there is no doubt. Even to those of us who found some of the questions in Monday's Senate hearings as baffling as Goldman's own executives did -- and felt bizarre sympathy at their struggles to answer a number of questions that seemed remarkably off point and ill-worded -- it's nevertheless difficult to miss the whiff of moral bankruptcy hanging about the place.
Wal-Mart has again found itself facing some bad publicity on the labor relations front after a federal appeals court certified the largest gender discrimination class action lawsuit in U.S. history on Monday.
A federal appeals court has certified the largest class-action employment lawsuit in U.S. history, in a long-standing dispute against retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. over alleged gender bias in pay and promotions.
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