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  • The Marketplace Report: Wal-Mart on Top, Again
    Once again, Wal-Mart tops the annual Global Fortune 500 list of top-earning corporations, released this week. Alex Chadwick talks with Bob Moon of Marketplace about the Arkansas-based retail giant, plus who else is on top this year.
  • Walmart Reports Increased Sales In Tops, Not Bottoms, As More People Telework
    Walmart is selling more tops than bottoms, due to an increase in teleworking during the coronavirus pandemic. And from the waist down? Well, apparently, it's a free-for-all.
  • Virginia city honors the 6 victims of last week's Walmart shooting
    People gathered in Chesapeake, Va., for a candlelight vigil Monday to honor the victims of the Walmart mass shooting. The shooter, a supervisor at Walmart, turned the gun on himself.
  • Wal-Mart
    Linda talks with Dale Ingram, a spokesman for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. They'll talk about why the nation's largest department store chain refuses to carry singer Sheryl Crow's newest album. The CD includes a song called "Love Is A Good Thing" that refers to Wal-Mart by name as a place where children purchase guns. Ingram claims that the lyrics are an unfair attack on the retail chain, saying that the company has strict policies that prohibit the sale of firearms to minors. In fact, Wal-Mart stopped selling handguns in its stores in 1994, making them available only through its catalogue.
  • In this image taken from video, shoppers load purchased items into their vehicle Monday, July 31, 2023, at a Walmart in Lincolnton, N.C., where police say migrant workers were intentionally hit by an SUV in the parking lot of the store a day earlier.
    An SUV strikes 6 migrant workers in Walmart parking lot in North Carolina
    Police are still working to identify the vehicle and driver in the Sunday afternoon incident.
  • A new study reports bottom dogs have higher rates of bullying, fighting and gang activity and lower rates of safety and belonging than top and middle dogs.
    6th Grade Is Tough; It Helps To Be 'Top Dog'
    A new study says sixth-graders do better when they attend K-8 schools, so they're not the youngest.
  • California's gas prices top $6 a gallon in October
    California's gas prices, well above the national average, have gone into overdrive, topping $6 a gallon in October. Why is gas so expensive in a state that's synonymous with the automobile?
  • We're still combing through all your emails about the acc.
    What You Emailed Us About Using The 'ACC'
    After we introduced a name for that annoying email practice of strategically cc-ing a manager to gain an upper hand, you responded with an avalanche of email. Here's a sample of your thoughts.
  • Unionization of Wal-Mart
    NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from Las Vegas on the attempts of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), to unionize Wal-Mart's nearly one million employees. But Wal-Mart's deep pockets and extremely high employee turnover rates are big obstacles for UFCW.
  • Walmart And Homeopathic Medicines
    NPR's Scott Simon asks Nicholas Little of the Center for Inquiry about suing Walmart for the way it markets homeopathic medicines.
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