The Pigeon Express
A woman in Texas was briefly arrested after she tried to purchase another woman’s child while waiting in a checkout line at Walmart. According to reports, Rebecca Taylor, 49, came up to the woman’s shopping cart in the checkout line. The woman’s cart had two children inside at the time. Taylor started to make comments […]
A woman and her infant child are injured after a toddler accidentally fired a gun in a car parked outside a Granbury Walmart in Texas. According to the Granbury Police Department a 1-year-old child and a 3-month-old child were inside a vehicle at the time of the incident. The mother of the children, a 23-year-old […]
California officials have filed a statewide lawsuit against Walmart alleging that the company illegally disposed of hazardous waste at landfills across the state. The lawsuit alleges the retail giant illegally dumped nearly 160,000 pounds of hazardous waste, or more than 1 million items, each year in California over the last six years. California Attorney General […]
An Alabama nurse who says she was falsely arrested for shoplifting at a Walmart and then threatened by the company after her case was dismissed has been awarded $2.1 million in damages. The woman in the lawsuit said after she was stopped in November 2016 when trying to leave a Walmart with groceries she said […]
Cryptocurrency Litecoin saw a sudden surge in price on Monday after a press release claimed Walmart began accepting it for payment — this turned out to be fake. The release, published through a legitimate press channel, claimed that Walmart would accept the currency through all its digital stores. Walmart later told US media outlets the […]
Two Black men stepped into a Texas Walmart last year expecting to exchange a defective 58-inch television one of them purchased. Instead, their September 10, 2020, trip to the Walmart in Conroe, Texas, led to theft accusations by white employees against Dennis Stewart and Terence Richardson, according to a federal lawsuit filed on Thursday in […]
The United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Walmart alleging that the retail giant filled “thousands of invalid prescriptions” for powerful painkillers, helping fuel America’s opioid crisis. Walmart runs more than 5,000 pharmacies across the country. Until 2018, the chain was a wholesale distributor of controlled substances for its own pharmacies, giving it […]
Even though medical professionals urge people to wear masks and maintain social distancing to prevent them from contracting the severe Covid-19, months after the pandemic some refuse to comply. There have been quite some number of incidents so far. In a recent incident in Ohio, United States a person was arrested for taking out brass […]
Walmart has removed gun and ammunition from display in thousands of its stores in the United States, citing concerns of “civil unrest”. Customers will still be able to buy guns and ammunition on request. It is not yet known how long firearms will be removed from the sales floor. Walmart sells firearms in around half […]
US retail giant Walmart will team up with Microsoft to make a bid for the US operations of TikTok. Walmart hopes the deal with a deal with the Chinese video-sharing app, in partnership with Microsoft, would help it expand its operations. TikTok has been given 90 days to sell its US arm to an American […]
Walmart Inc’s Flipkart has suspended services, a notice on the Indian e-commerce firm’s website said on Wednesday, as India began a 21-day lockdown to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the lockdown from Tuesday midnight, but a federal government advisory suggested exempting e-commerce deliveries of essentials such as food […]
A 24-year-old man in Texas who filmed himself licking an ice cream tub and putting it back in the freezer of a Walmart supermarket was sentenced to 30 days in jail. He was also fined USD 1,000 (over RS 74,000), according to US media reports. He began serving his jail term immediately after being sentenced. […]