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    May 30, 2018
    A worker collects shopping carts at a Walmart in Secaucus, N.J., March 14, 2018. Joining a growing list of companies that are helping employees pay for higher education as a perk in a tight labor market, Walmart announced on May 30 that it would begin offering subsidized tuition toward business or supply chain management degrees for its 1.4 million workers in the United States. (Andres Kudack/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Walmart to offer employees a college education for $1 a day
    Walmart, the country's largest private employer, announced Wednesday that it will pay for its workers to go back to school - as long as they...
    news/educationMay 30, 2018 - 2:14pm
    May 4, 2018
    Six identified in $400,000 multi-state Walmart theft ring that ended in Fergus Falls
    FERGUS FALLS, Minn.—Six people have been identified in connection with a multi-state electronics theft ring which spanned six states and...
    news/crime-and-courtsMay 4, 2018 - 1:59pm
    March 28, 2018
    FILE -- Ashley VanHorn, a Walmart grocery department manager, stocks shelves at store in Fulton, N.Y., July 17, 2017. (Roger Kisby/Copyright 2018 The New York Times) - XNYT23
    Walmart pulls Cosmopolitan from checkout aisles after pressure from anti-porn group
    Walmart has decided to pull Cosmopolitan magazine from its checkout aisles at 5,000 stores across the United States after years of pressure from...
    business/retailMarch 28, 2018 - 1:14pm
    March 7, 2018
    A customer carries a purchase while exiting a Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. store in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Aug. 18, 2016. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Sean Proctor
    A 20-year-old is suing Dick's and Walmart over new gun policies, alleging age discrimination
    Last week, as the nation reckoned with the school shooting at a Florida high school that left 17 people dead, Dick's Sporting Goods and Walmart...
    business/retailMarch 7, 2018 - 10:28am
    March 2, 2018
    An AR-15 and other rifles for sale at the Florida Gun Show, Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, Fla., Feb. 25, 2018. In the packed exhibition hall, where shoppers were offered a refund on their admission if they signed up for a membership with the National Rifle Association, attitudes toward firearms laws were far from monolithic. Zack Wittman / copyright 2018 The New York Times
    Rental cars, hearing aids, insurers: Since Parkland, a list of companies that have weighed in on the gun debate
    More than two weeks after a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, the number of companies cutting ties with the National...
    news/government-and-politicsMarch 2, 2018 - 8:56am
    February 28, 2018
    Customers push merchandise to their car at a Walmart store in Secaucus, N.J., Nov. 4, 2017. Employees at several e-commerce companies recently acquired by Walmart are finding that their medical coverage will come at a far higher price. (Michael Nagle/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Walmart, nation's top-seller of guns, joins Dick's in raising minimum age to purchase guns, ammunition to 21
    Some of the biggest names in business have been distancing themselves in recent days from hard-core U.S. gun culture by severing ties with the...
    business/retailFebruary 28, 2018 - 7:59pm
    January 15, 2018
    Customers walk away from Sam's Club in Moorhead, Minn., after realizing the business is closed for the day on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. David Samson / The Forum
    The closing of 63 Sam's Club stores has big implications for small business
    Last week, Walmart announced that it would be closing 63 of its under-performing Sam's Club stores at various locations throughout the country....
    business/retailJanuary 15, 2018 - 12:36pm
    January 11, 2018
    A worker moves a stray shopping cart outside a Wal-Mart location in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 15, 2015. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Luke Sharrett
    Walmart said it's giving its employees a raise. And then it closed 63 stores.
    Walmart, the largest U.S. private employer, with more than 1 million workers, said Thursday it plans to raise starting wages from $9 to $11 an...
    businessJanuary 11, 2018 - 8:06pm
    Bismarck man threatens to decapitate landlord, waves machete at Walmart
    BISMARCK --Within a week, a Bismarck man garnered charges in three cases for threatening to decapitate his landlord, waving a machete at Walmart...
    news/crime-and-courtsJanuary 11, 2018 - 4:55pm
    Walmart to raise minimum wage, give $1K bonuses and offer paid parental leave
    Walmart is raising its starting hourly wage from $9 to $11 and expanding its parental leave benefits, the company announced Thursday. The country's...
    business/retailJanuary 11, 2018 - 8:52am
    December 25, 2017
    Sandra Lazcano, left, shops for vacuum bags. Photo by Ariel Zambelich for The Washington Post
    Will the rapidly-shrinking store save retail?
    With holiday shopping in full swing, Sears decided it was time to host a "grand reopening" for its department store at Fair Oaks Mall in Northern...
    business/retailDecember 25, 2017 - 8:15am
    November 13, 2017
    N.D. Gov. Doug Burgum and Lisa Nelson, Public Affairs & Government Relations Director for Walmart, choose pastries frosted with sunflower butter Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, at the SunButter plant in Fargo. Michael Vosburg / Forum News Service
    Walmart reps, Gov. Burgum highlight Fargo sunflower butter company
    FARGO — As employees continued their work in the background, representatives of Walmart stopped by a Fargo-based sunflower butter company...
    business/small-businessNovember 13, 2017 - 7:16pm
    November 7, 2017
    In an undated handout photo, Scott Ostrem, who was arrested on Nov. 2, 2017 as a suspect in the fatal shooting of three people at a Walmart in the Denver suburbs. Officers staking out an apartment complex spotted Ostrem driving by in the same red Mitsubishi he reportedly used to flee the scene of the shooting just hours earlier. (Thornton Police Dept. via The New York Times)
    Accused Walmart gunman haunted by voices for decades after taking acid, sister says
    Many now know Scott Ostrem as the man who, police said, walked into a Walmart store in Colorado, calmly pointed a firearm, shot random customers,...
    newsNovember 7, 2017 - 12:14pm
    November 2, 2017
    Arrest made in Colorado Walmart shooting
    Police say they have apprehended the man who allegedly opened fire at a Walmart in Thornton, Colorado, on Wednesday night, killing three. Scott...
    newsNovember 2, 2017 - 1:43pm
    September 22, 2017
    A unidentified woman looks over bare refrigerator shelves in a Walmart store in Houston, Texas, U.S., as Hurricane Harvey approaches landfall near the Texas coastal area, August 25, 2017. REUTERS/Ernest Scheyder
    Walmart wants to send people into your house to stock the fridge - even when you're not home
    Delivery workers who drop off Walmart groceries may soon also bring them into your kitchen and unload them into your refrigerator, even if you're...
    newsSeptember 22, 2017 - 5:41pm
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