| January 29, 2008 | -
Wal-Mart announced an economic “stimulus plan” that offers steep discounts on thousands of items, including a five-pound bag of Tyson frozen chicken wings ($8.88) and two Hillshire Farms Cocktail Smokies or Ropes ($5).
| Source:
Wal-Mart &lq;Stimulus&rq; Pkg: Will Doritos Rescue The Economy?
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| July 3, 2007 | - It was revealed that Wal-Mart has collected on at least 75 of the 350,000 life insurance policies it had secretly taken out on its employees.
| Source:
The Tampa Tribune
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| October 12, 2006 | -
Chinese
Wal-Mart workers unionized.
| Source:
International Herald Tribune
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| June 2, 2006 | - A snake bit a woman at a Wal-Mart in Florida. “Thank goodness for sweat pants with elastic,” said the woman, “because he tried to climb up my britches' leg.”
| Source:
WFTV.com
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| March 4, 2006 | -
Wal-Mart announced that it would begin to sell the morning-after pill, but would not require pharmacists to fill prescriptions if the pill offends them.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| December 13, 2005 | - A man who works as a Santa at a New York
Wal-Mart was arrested after he exposed himself to a 15-year-old boy and asked for oral sex.
| Source:
Record Online
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| November 5, 2005 | -
Wal-Mart released a study showing that Wal-Mart is good for the U.S. economy.
| Source:
Arkansas News Bureau
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| June 14, 2005 | - An achondroplastic dwarf in Florida named Molly Beavers sued Wal-Mart for firing her from her job at Sam's Club because she did not smile enough; Beavers cannot smile because her face is partially paralyzed.
| Source:
St. Petersburg Times
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| May 22, 2005 | - In Indiana a three-year-old boy crawled inside a toy vending machine at a Wal-Mart and had to be freed by firemen. He did not receive a toy.
| Source:
BBC News
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| May 17, 2005 | -
Wal-Mart announced that it would export $18 billion worth of Chinese goods.
| Source:
Forbes
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| May 14, 2005 | -
Wal-Mart apologized for running an advertisement that equated current Arizona zoning ordinances with the Nazi regime. Using a photo of a 1933 book burning in Berlin, the ad read: “Should we let government tell us what we can read? Of course not . . . So why should we allow local government to limit where we shop?”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| February 9, 2005 | -
Wal-Mart
announced plans to close a store in Canada after
the store's workers unionized.
| Source:
The Street
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| November 6, 2004 | - A giant Wal-Mart opened up within a mile of the pyramids at Teotihuacán, Mexico.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 8, 2004 | -
Mexico declined to stop the construction of a Wal-Mart next to the ancient ruins of Teotihuacán.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 22, 2004 | -
Wal-Mart agreed to stop selling The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a nineteenth-century anti-Semitic forgery, on its website; a spokesman said the company had "made a business decision to remove this book."
| Source:
Jewish Telegraph Agency
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| June 4, 2004 | - Good Jobs First, a Washington, D.C., research group, reported that Wal-Mart has received more than $1 billion in subsidies from state and local governments around the country.
| Source:
Elizabethton Star
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| March 9, 2004 | - A Georgia woman was arrested for trying to pass a fake $1 million bill at a Wal-Mart.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| November 29, 2003 | - A Wal-Mart shopper in Orange City, Florida, was trampled and knocked unconscious during a stampede at a Wal-Mart Supercenter; the stampede occurred at the 6 a.m. opening of a big sale. The victim, who was first in line, was found clutching a DVD player.
| Source:
Daytona Beach News-Journal, New York Times
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| August 14, 2001 | -
Wal-Mart's
sales were up 6 percent.
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| September 12, 2000 | -
German government regulators ordered Wal-Mart to raise its prices after they concluded that Wal-Mart was illegally trying to harm competitors with artificially low prices.
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