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When ignoring journalism basics is somebody else’s fault.It was a curiosity yesterday morning in the digital currency exchanges that only lasted a couple of hours. A story surfaced as the markets opened involving the cryptocurrency Litecoin, where it was announced that Wal-Mart would begin accepting the currency in transactions. After an initial announcement, the story was picked up by CNBC, and Reuters, and this led to a spike in interest that saw prices for Litecoin shoot up 25% at one point. The issue: The entire story was not true at all. While the entire drama played out in the somewhat...

The three largest retailers in the US will soon start offering at-home COVID-19 rapid tests at a sharply reduced price. ... ...Those retailers will sell at-home rapid tests at-cost for the next three months, meaning they'll cost up to 35% less both in stores and online. ... ... Medicaid is required to make at-home COVID tests free for beneficiaries....

An Arizona woman who went to Walmart for an oil change claims she ended up with a blown up car instead. Nikki Smith says she narrowly escaped with her life when her Jeep went up in a ball of flames at the Walmart Auto Center in Phoenix — and it was just by the Grace of God she didn't have her three-year-old daughter strapped in there at the time, either. Smith told TooFab she brought the car to the supercenter on Sunday for a routine oil change.(snip) "After I took my car to Walmart I started noticing that my car...

Former Walmart executive and e-commerce billionaire Marc Lore wants to build the world’s first woke city from scratch — somewhere in the US. Lore last week unveiled plans for his utopia, called Telosa, from the ancient Greek word Telos, meaning "highest purpose." "The mission of Telosa is to create a more equitable, sustainable future. That’s our North Star," Lore said in a promotional video. "We are going to be the most open, the most fair and the most inclusive city in the world." Key to the city’s plans is Lore’s economic vision, called "Equitism," in which the land upon which...

Herein lies a glimpse into just what kind of knuckle-draggers the left thinks we are. They think patriotism means we’ll do whatever they say whenever they say it.“Rooting against Olympians, scoffing at Capitol police, broaching civil war — meet today’s conservative movement.”That’s the opening of an article last week at Vox.com. You’ve probably heard of Vox. Their self-proclaimed, self-aggrandizing purpose is to “explain the news.” But when Vox’s condescending reporters start talking about conservatives, Christians, guns, or really anyone outside of a few coastal cities, they have a habit of sounding like Jane Goodall observing apes.So, what’s their qualm now?...

Walmart is requiring workers in high risk areas to mask up — and will force all managers to get vaccinated by early October. The mask mandate was announced Friday and immediately implemented. It applies to all store workers, regardless of vaccination status, in high risk COVID-19 counties, as determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new policy came three days after the CDC reversed its May mask guidance, calling on all people to wear face coverings indoors in the approximately two-thirds of the country where the deadly virus and its Delta variant are spreading rapidly. Walmart, the...

Disney and Walmart, two of America's largest employers, announced Friday that they are requiring employees be vaccinated. Disney (DIS) is requiring all its salaried and non-union hourly employees in the US to be vaccinated. Workers who are working on-site but are not yet vaccinated must do so within the next 60 days, according to a statement from the company to CNN Business. All new hires must be fully vaccinated before beginning their jobs. As part of its push for vaccination, the company is offering employees the chance to get vaccinated while on the clock and up to three days paid...

Kroger and Walmart, two of the nation's biggest retailing chains, are changing their mask policies as the nation contends with less-vaccinated regions getting hit by high infection rates due to the Delta variant. Kroger is now "strongly" encouraging all individuals, including those who are vaccinated, to wear a mask when in its stores and facilities, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based supermarket operator said Friday, citing updated recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Previously, Kroger had required unvaccinated employees wear masks and requested that unvaccinated shoppers do the same. "We will continue to abide by all state and local...

Retail giant to encourage, not require, shoppers to wear masks inside stores

Morning Joe's opening segment today consisted of one long complaint about the unvaccinated hordes that are going to make us all have to mask up again. Mika Brzezinski condescended to the Americans of Walmart, saying they would be "fighting over whether or not they have to wear their masks." Brzezinski reported that five Texas Democrats in D.C. tested positive over the weekend, but Morning Joe suppressed the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris had a "routine appointment" on Sunday morning at Walter Reed Hospital. Substitute co-host Jonathan Lemire (from AP) dutifully passed along the claim from Harris's office that she...

A Dewitt police officer is on paid administrative leave following an altercation at a Walmart in East Syracuse. A controversial social media post shows the officer punching a woman in the face on July 4th in the store on Basile Road. Town of Dewitt officer, Rory Spain, whose been on the force three years, is on leave until an internal investigation is complete. You can watch the viral video with a slow-motion below:

A Dewitt police officer is on paid administrative leave following an altercation at a Walmart in East Syracuse. A controversial social media post shows the officer punching a woman in the face on July 4th in the store on Basile Road. Town of Dewitt officer, Rory Spain, whose been on the force three years, is on leave until an internal investigation is complete. You can watch the viral video with a slow-motion below: Twitter LinkTwitter LinkThe bodycam footage below: Part 1: Twitter LinkPart 2: Twitter LinkTo get more perspective on the incident, a former NYPD police officer revealed if this...

BARABOO (WKOW) – A Baraboo Walmart employee was able to tackle a deer that got into the store this week. A 27 News viewer recorded a video in the store when it happened Wednesday. The video shows an employee on top of the deer, to keep it from moving through the store. The witness said the deer got into the store somewhere in the back of the building. Managers at Walmart declined to comment on the incident. Video at source

One person was killed and three others, including a 15-year-old girl, were injured when shots rang out after midnight Monday in a crowded Walmart parking lot in upstate New York that police say was crowded with hundreds of people. Shots rang out in a crowd around 12:50 a.m. Four people were driven to Rochester General Hospital in separate vehicles. An 18-year-old man was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital. His death marked the 35th homicide in Rochester this year and the 12th in June, according to the Democrat & Chronicle. A 43-year-old man suffered serious injuries, Umbrino said....

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Officials with the Knoxville Police Department said a woman was arrested after vandalizing property at a Knoxville Walmart. According to KPD, officers responded to reports of vandalism at the Walmart on the 8400 block of Walbrook Drive. According to dispatch, the caller said a partially naked woman was allegedly vandalizing Walmart property, throwing items at employees and defecating on herself. While officers were en route to the Walmart, they received a call that the suspect, identified as Nashea Brown, 35, was reportedly attempting to get an ax out of its packaging. When officers arrived on the...

Walmart will give 740,000 employees free Samsung smartphones by the end of the year so they can use a new app to manage schedules, the company announced Thursday. Employees will only be able to use work features on the new Me@Walmart while on the clock, the company said. "The idea of this app started as a way to manage associates' schedules and has grown into our single in-store app for U.S. associates, saving them time and helping them be more efficient," the company said. Earlier this year, Walmart announced pay increases for nearly a third of its U.S. workforce of...

Shocking video shows a Walmart security worker knock a customer out stone-cold with just one, ruthless punch after the shopper apparently spat on him. A 14-second clip uploaded late Tuesday to Facebook shows the Walmart contractor and a customer engaged in a ferocious shoving match. The clash quickly escalated when the male shopper rammed the security staffer with his cart, hitting him once. The customer then appeared to lunge his head forward and spit on the worker, prompting him to knock the man out cold with one punch, the clip shows.

"On May 27th, KCSO Special Operations Division intercepted a message indicating that Blevins was preparing to proceed with a mass shooting. In the message, Mr. Blevins made a specific threat that included WalMart. Working with the FBI, KCSO Investigators confirmed Mr. Blevins' capability of following through with the threat and moved immediately to arrest him,"

Walmart Inc said on Monday it had blocked emails containing a racial slur from being sent from its domain, following backlash on social media. Several Twitter users posted screenshots of emails, from the company's official 'help@walmart.com' address, that contained a slur instead of their names. Walmart said a "bad actor" had created fake Walmart accounts using people's real email addresses and altered first names to fool its automated reply system.

In a rare picture of bipartisanship, Americans from both sides of the aisle say they will continue to wear masks while in the Walmart bathroom. 100% of Democrats and 100% of Republicans both said they would continue wearing the masks whenever they are forced through some cruel twist of fate to enter the Walmart bathroom, no matter what their position on masking is outside the restrooms at America's favorite superstore. "Usually, we find that positions on masking are split roughly along partisan lines," said Dr. Shelby Prior, head of mask research at UC Davis. "But the incredible thing here is...