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Wal-Mart Tells Employees It Will Cut 11,200 Jobs
-- New York Times		 January 26
Wal-Mart Struggles to Expand in Chicago
-- New York Times		 January 22
At least 600,000 cribs recalled after child death
-- Associated Press		 January 20
Health Canada to test kids’ jewelry for cadmium, finds lead in some items
-- The Canadian Press		 January 19
Local Dairy Companies Fear Walmart Is Taking Their Milk Off The Shelf
-- WJAC TV		 January 15
Wal-Mart to Close 10 Sam’s Clubs Stores in US
-- Associated Press		 January 14
Chinese-Made Children’s Jewelry Pulled From Wal-Mart Stores
-- WXII 12		 January 13
Amazon, Wal-Mart Battle Over Books Starting Thursday (10/15/09) there was some interesting back and forth between Wal-mart and Amazon that I wanted to give Amazon Strategies readers a blow by blow.
-- Seeking Alpha		 October 18
Walmart Thinks Woman Is Laundry Soap Thief, Refuses Return When a soon to be mother realized she had bought the wrong laundry detergent at a New Mexico Walmart, she tried to return it. That didn’t work out so well, ending up with the store manager insinuating she was a con-artist who replaced the detergent with water.
-- Consumerist		 October 13
Wal-Mart will change Tamiflu pills to liquid doses Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it plans to convert Tamiflu capsules into liquids to help give the antiviral drug to children and the elderly, who may have trouble swallowing the capsules.
-- Associated Press		 October 13
Meeting spurs Walmart protesters About 20 people used a canceled town hall meeting Tuesday afternoon as a forum to protest a 152,495-square-foot Walmart Supercenter proposed for south Gardnerville.
-- Record-Courier (Nev.)		 September 16
Letter:  What price, Walmart? One big box will beget another What price, Walmart? One big box will beget another I am one of the “putrid preservationists” Orange County Supervisor Mark Johnson mentioned in his comments after the Walmart public hearing and subsequent vote to approve the Wilderness battlefield site
-- Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star		 September 16
Wal-Mart Takes Prescription Mail-Delivery Service Nationwide Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) is expanding nationwide a prescription mail-delivery program that offers customers a 90-day supply of 300 generic drugs for $10.
-- Wall Street Journal		 September 15
Woman beaten to death at China Wal-Mart: police A woman in eastern China was allegedly beaten to death by five employees of a Wal-Mart store who accused her of shoplifting, a police report and state media said Tuesday.
-- AFP		 September 08
Wal-Mart to Pay Via Check Cards Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation’s largest private employer, is eliminating paper payroll checks in the U.S., transferring workers’ earnings to a debit card if they decline direct deposit to a bank.
-- Wall Street Journal		 September 03
New Coalition Targets Policies Of Wal-Mart Labor groups renewed their campaign against Wal-Mart on Tuesday, launching a coalition that calls for improvements in the company’s wages, health care, and environmental and labor policies. 
-- Washington Post		 September 02
War Zone: Wal-Mart Wages Battle for Va. Store In the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression, you might think that a company’s proposal to build a superstore that would generate over 300 jobs and around $500,000 annually in new tax revenues would be greeted with open arms. 
-- [ABC]		 August 24
Walmart to Sell Kiss’s First New Music in 11 Years Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, will offer a $12 CD set with rock band Kiss’s first new music in 11 years, and plans to expand into other merchandise licensed by the group. 
-- [Bloomberg]		 August 24
Wal-Mart Contests Use of Name by Canadian Union Wal-Mart’s feelings about unions in its stores are well known. In Quebec, the company does not want a union even breathing its name.
-- [New York Times]		 August 24
Walmart enters mail order prescription drug business Walmart has entered the mail order prescription drug business in a big way.
-- New York Daily News		 August 19
Walmart to Sell Kiss’s First New Music in 11 Years Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, will offer a $12 CD set with rock band Kiss’s first new music in 11 years, and plans to expand into other merchandise licensed by the group.
-- Bloomberg		 August 17
‘The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business’ Bentonville, Ark., may be unknown to most Americans, but it is the center of the world for some 750 corporations that manufacture consumer goods—because Bentonville is the legendary home office of Wal-Mart, and those corporations want to sell their products to the world’s largest retailer.
-- Los Angeles Times		 August 16
Frisco part of recurring Wal-Mart opposition Collin County folks love Wal-Mart. Collin County folks hate Wal-Mart.
-- Dallas Morning News		 August 15
Wal-Mart plan starts new battle on Va. Civil War grounds One hundred and forty-five years after General Ulysses S. Grant first fought General Robert E. Lee, another conflict is brewing on the Wilderness Battlefield: whether to let Wal-Mart build a superstore where 29,000 soldiers were wounded or killed.
-- The Boston Globe		 August 14
Supreme Court Justice Thomas and Wife Camp Out at Wal-Mart One of the favorite places for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and wife Ginni to grab some sleep is in a Wal-Mart parking lot, Mrs. Thomas told National Public Radio on Wednesday.
-- [Fox News]		 August 07
Story of Wal-Mart is the history and future of America Does the world need another book about Wal-Mart? The biggest re­tailer on the planet has inspired volumes from both breathless admirers and bitter critics, charting its rise to dominance in the US and beyond since Sam Walton opened a discount store in north-west Arkansas in 1962.
-- [Financial Times] 		August 07
Can Wal-Mart Be Sustainable? Recently, Wal-Mart has been rolling out plans for what it calls a sustainability index — a measure of how green the products it sells really are. It is asking each of its suppliers, an enormous list of businesses, 15 questions about the life of their products from manufacturing through disposal: questions about greenhouse gas emissions, social responsibility, waste reduction initiatives and water use.
-- [New York Times]		 August 07
Commission reschedules public hearing special-called meeting of the Orange County Planning Commission July 30 lasted less than 30 minutes-just long enough to set a date for a re-do of the planning commission’s public hearing on Walmart’s special use permit.
-- [Orange County Review]		 August 06
Walmart Sees Sunny Forecast for Solar Walmart is inching closer to its goal of using 100 percent renewable energy with a new deal bringing rooftop solar power to five Puerto Rico stores.
-- [Reuters]		 August 06
HP hires former Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman HP said Wednesday that it has hired former Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman as senior vice president of global information technology.
-- 		August 06
Walmart decision won’t come before Olympics announcement The battle to bring a second Walmart in the city has been put on the back burner again by the City Council. This time, no council action will occur until the city finds out in October whether or not the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics Games will take place in Chicago.
-- [Chicago Defender]		 August 06
Will Wal-Mart’s New Cookies Hurt the Girl Scouts? Over the years, world’s biggest retailer Wal-Mart has been the source of heated scrutiny for many organizations, from labor unions to environmental groups. The grocery giant’s latest purported victim? The Girl Scouts.
-- 		August 05
10% Of Guangdong Output Goes To Wal-Mart, 15 Million Workers Bentonville and Rogers, Arkansas are home to 750+ branch offices of Wal-Mart’s largest vendors; P&G alone has a staff of more than 250 there. Another nerve center of its global supply network is Guangdong Province on the southern coast of China.
-- [Basil & Spice.com]		 August 05
Walmart Sees Sunny Forecast for Solar Walmart is inching closer to its goal of using 100 percent renewable energy with a new deal bringing rooftop solar power to five Puerto Rico stores.
-- [GreenBiz.com]		 August 05
Walmart funds green-jobs training The Walmart Foundation has made a $550,000 donation to fund a six-week Conservation Leadership Corps program that will get Milwaukee-area high-school students involved in conservation efforts and give them some green-jobs training.
-- [Biz Journals]		 August 05
Wal-Mart fight pits jobless vs. small business In many areas starved for retail businesses, welcoming a Wal-Mart would be a no-brainer.
-- [Sun Times (Ill.)]		 August 04
Fresh cilantro sold at Wal-Mart is recalled Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment officials Friday announced Frontera Produce of Edinburg, Texas, is voluntarily recalling one lot of cilantro for potential salmonella contamination.
-- [Colorado Connection]		 August 04
Mom Accuses Walmart of Going After Girl Scouts Walmart, which has been going after a lot of brands lately with the restage and expansion of its Great Value private label, now appears to be taking on the Girl Scouts. 
-- [Ad Age]		 August 04
Bank Sets May 2011 Deadline for South-Side Wal-Mart Wal-Mart opened its first city store in Austin on the West Side in September 2006. The retailer has been trying to get another store built on the South Side for more than five years but has encountered a series of obstacles from the city.
-- [Chicago Daily Observer]		 August 03
Judge: SoCal Wal-Mart plans not green enough A San Bernardino Superior Court judge says Rialto must revoke its approval of a 284,000-square-foot Wal-Mart partly because the plans are not environmentally friendly.
-- [Mercury News (Calif)]		 August 03
UPDATE: Obama Hosts Verizon, Wal-Mart, Nucor, Starbucks CEOs President Barack Obama hosted the chief executives of Verizon Communications Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Nucor Corp. and Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) for lunch at the White House Friday, the administration said in a statement.
-- [CNN Money]		 August 03
Wilderness Wal-Mart SOON, RESIDENTS of Virginia’s Orange County may be able to “Save money, live better”—but at the cost of controversy. 
-- [Washington Post]		 August 03
No Wal-Mart vote till after Olympics decision The International Olympic Committee will decide whether Chicago will host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games before the City Council decides whether Walmart can build its second store here.
-- [Chicago Sun-Time]		 July 31
Is Wal-Mart the Most or the Least Responsible Company, Or Both? The debate over Walmart seems as long as a superstore aisle: are they good and green, or just good at greenwashing and papering over a dubious record?
-- [TreeHugger.com]		 July 31
Walmart: Want The Online Price? You Must Wait Two Weeks For No Reason Lloyd wanted a GPS to guide him on his vacation, so to make sure he’d have it in time, and the best deal he could find was online at Walmart. Verifying that the item was in stock, he headed to his nearby store, hoping to pick it up and be on his way.
-- [Consumerist.com]		 July 31
Wal-Mart weighs role in U.S. H1N1 vaccination plans Wal-Mart Stores Inc is discussing with U.S. health officials the possibility of putting vaccination sites at some of its stores for an H1N1 swine flu inoculation campaign this fall, a company official said on Thursday.
-- [Reuters]		 July 31
Wal-Mart Sells First U.S. Samurai Bonds Since Lehman Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s biggest retailer, sold the first samurai bonds from a U.S. borrower since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. defaulted on its yen debt in September. 
-- [Bloomberg]		 July 29
Foreigner betting on Wal-Mart with new release Can Wal-Mart work its magic for yet another ‘70s rock act? The retail giant’s exclusive September 29 release of Foreigner’s “Can’t Slow Down” will be its first major exclusive since AC/DC’s “Black Ice” in October.
-- [Reuters]		 July 29
VOICES: Wal-Mart’s (un)sustainability index Wal-Mart has taken the latest in a long series of steps to make itself look good by imposing burdens on its suppliers.
-- [Southern Studies]		 July 29
Home of Blue Light Special Far From Singing the Blues With all the chatter about Walmart winning in the recession, it’s easy to miss another retailer that’s also doing pretty well: Kmart. Yes, Kmart.
-- [Advertising Age]		 July 27

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