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News Articles: Walmart

A person reacts during a hearing for Patrick Crusius, the Walmart mass shooter, at the Enrique Moreno County Courthosue in El Paso, Texas, April 21, 2025.

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  • National

El Paso Walmart shooter receives rebuke and forgiveness as he gets 23 life sentences

Victims and families of the people who died in the 2019 attack offered impact testimonies as trial ends. "I have no more room for hate in my heart," said Yvonne Gonzalez, who lost her parents.

April 23, 2025
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  • Aaron Montes
NPR has long tracked prices at a Walmart near Savannah, Ga., and this time, we shopped for things that got cheaper — in all, about a fifth of the 96 items on our shopping list.

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  • Business

Has anything gotten cheaper? We shopped at Walmart to find the answer

Some things have gotten cheaper, even in an era of high prices. What are those things? We've been tracking them at a Walmart in Georgia.

January 28, 2025
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
NPR has tracked the prices of dozens of items at one Walmart in Georgia over multiple years.

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  • Business

NPR shopped for 96 items at Walmart to track how prices are really changing

NPR has tracked the prices of dozens of items at the same superstore in Georgia, including eggs, T-shirts, snacks and paper towels. Here's what got cheaper over the past year, and more expensive.

January 15, 2025
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Juweek Adolphe
A Walmart logo is displayed outside of a Walmart store in Walpole, Mass.

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  • National

Walmart becomes latest — and biggest — company to roll back its DEI policies

Conservative groups have filed lawsuits against workplace diversity initiatives that prioritize historically marginalized groups.

November 26, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Bonnie Boop is now a people lead at Walmart in Huntsville, Ala. She received college credit for a company training program, graduating with a bachelor's degree last year.

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  • Business

College credit for working your job? Walmart and McDonald’s are trying it

Imagine a world in which your resume relies less on titles or diplomas and acts more like a passport of skills you’ve proven you have.

July 10, 2024
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
An employee arranges a digital price tag for vegetables at the Whole Foods store in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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  • Business

A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels

With electronic shelf labels, prices can change up to six times a minute. Grocers including Walmart, Whole Foods and Schnucks are adopting them.


June 19, 2024
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  • Lola Murti
From left: Harrison Butker, a slug, JoJo Siwa

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  • National

What did the internet call 'satanic'? Find out in the news quiz

What looks like "a ghost emerging from a pool of vomit"? Are meme stocks back? And what's up with the Trump-Biden debates? Plus: orcas with a thirst for violence and more Miss USA drama.

May 17, 2024
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  • Holly J. Morris
Shoppers exit a Walmart store, on Feb. 21, 2024, in Englewood, Colo. Walmart on Tuesday announced layoffs affecting several hundred jobs at the retail giant's campus offices.

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  • Business

Walmart lays off hundreds of employees and requires others to relocate

Walmart said it will require most remote workers in its Dallas, Atlanta and Toronto offices to relocate to its offices in Bentonville, Arkansas; Hoboken, New Jersey; and the San Francisco Bay Area.

May 15, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
The recalled beef products above were produced on April 26 and April 27.

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  • Health

More than 16,000 pounds of ground beef sold at Walmart recalled over E. coli risk

Cargill says that, out "of an abundance of caution," it is recalling several of its ground beef products produced in late April and sold at Walmart locations across the eastern U.S.

May 04, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
Walmart announced that it is closing its health centers and virtual care service, as the retail giant has struggled to find success with the offerings.

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  • Business

Walmart says it will close its 51 health centers and virtual care service

The Arkansas-based company said that after managing the clinics it launched in 2019 and expanding its telehealth program, it concluded "there is not a sustainable business model for us to continue."

May 01, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Walmart reached a $45 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit accusing it of overcharging for certain grocery items. Eligible customers have until early June to file claims for cash payments.

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  • Business

Some Walmart shoppers could get up to $500 in cash from a class-action settlement

Customers who bought certain grocery products at Walmart stores nationwide between October 2018 and January 2024 have until early June to file for payments, whether or not they kept their receipts.

April 06, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Snoop Dogg, left, and Master P seen at the 2017 Essence Festival at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Sunday, July 2, 2017, in New Orleans.

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  • Business

Snoop Dogg and Master P sue Walmart and Post for trying to sabotage their cereal

The rappers say that Walmart and Post Consumer Foods neglected their cereal brand and intentionally hid it in stockrooms to prevent it from being sold to customers.

February 09, 2024
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  • Jonathan Franklin
In this Aug. 18, 2011 photo, a prison guard rides a horse alongside prisoners as they return from farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment's exception clause, that allows for prison labor, provided legal cover to round up thousands of mostly young Black men. They then were leased out by states to plantations like Angola and some of the country's biggest privately owned companies, including coal mines and railroads.

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  • News

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola. The prisoners who help produce these goods are disproportionately people of color.

January 30, 2024
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  • Associated Press
People play a pallet packing game at the Walmart booth during the CES tech show Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, in Las Vegas.

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  • Business

Walmart experiments with AI to enhance customers' shopping experiences

At the CES trade show in Las Vegas, the nation's largest retailer said it will expand its drone delivery to 1.8 million additional households in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area this year.

January 10, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Amazon's Prime Day sale will run from July 11 to 12, and the retailer has promised to offer its lowest prices so far this year.

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  • Your Money

Are Amazon Prime Day deals worth it? 5 things to know

Amazon's annual two-day sale for Prime members is here. Not all deals are as good as they seem, however. It pays to do some research to ensure you're getting the best price.

July 11, 2023
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  • Erin Kenney
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