After months of subpar sales, the prototypical big-box retailer is embracing the idea that one size does not fit all.
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‘Walmart’s Worst Nightmare’ Is Expanding Massively
WinCo Foods is pushing into one of the country’s hottest grocery store markets, Texas—and the competition is quaking in their boots.
Can Walmart (and Other Mega-Corporations) Do Good?
Alaska state officials are hosting Walmart executives in the state capital this week in an effort to resolve a months-old dispute over Alaskan salmon fisheries’ sustainability credentials.
The seeds of the quarrel were planted …
Walmart Recalls Tainted Donkey Meat from Chinese Stores
It’s actually fox meat, regulators say
Boycotts, Petitions, Protests, Oh My: The Year in Consumer Outrage
In TIME’s year-end wrap-up for 2011, consumer outrage was highlighted as a hot trend. A couple years later, consumers only seem to be more outraged—and savvier about getting their voices heard.
Man Cut $20,000 Check for Other People’s Layaway Gifts at Walmart
And other ‘angels’ are doing the same
For an Upscale Treat, Try $2.99 Dollar Store Wine
In the continued quest to become one-stop destinations, dollar stores have begun selling alcohol. While single beers go for $1 or less, only big spenders will opt for dollar store wine, which sells for $2.99 and up per bottle.
Walmart’s Black Friday Bestseller Cost 29 Cents
The hottest item from Walmart’s Black Friday sales this year wasn’t a flashy new game console, a sleek new television, or the must-have toy or the season. It was a 29-cent washcloth.
The world’s biggest retailer announced …
Why the Next Three Weeks Will Be a Bargain Shopper’s Dream
After a lackluster Black Friday weekend at the mall, there is extra pressure on retailers to goose sales during the particularly brief and intense period before Christmas 2013.
Epic Thanksgiving–Black Friday Shopping Weekend: The Essential Guide
Where are the best deals to be found? What’s necessary to snag the hottest doorbusters and freebies? Which deals are truly deals, and which are just hype?
This Year, Black Friday Basically Starts a Week Early—If Not Sooner
The truth is that this year, Black Friday deals launch much earlier than Black Friday, or even Thanksgiving.
Walmart Seeks Food Donations to Help Needy Employees
Employee food drive leads to questions about the retailer’s wages