Latest Retail Headlines
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CDK Begins Restoring Systems After Cyber Hack Hits Thousands of Retailers
Jun 24 2024 // Retail technology and software provider CDK Global has begun work to restore systems used by over 15,000 retail locations across North America, the company said in a statement on Sunday, adding that it expects the process...
Reuters: Walmart Opposes New York Plan to Add Panic Buttons to Stores
Jun 11 2024 // Retail giant Walmart says it is against putting panic buttons in stores – a move that the New York legislature wants to require under a new law aimed at keeping retail workers safe. On Friday, the New York State...
$7.8M Court Order Blocks Ghost Gun Retailer From Selling Certain Parts in New York
Mar 8 2024 // A federal judge on Wednesday permanently banned a Florida gun retailer from selling or delivering certain gun parts in New York that officials say can be used to assemble untraceable ghost guns and sold without background...
Medical Incident Likely Led to SUV Crashing Into Michigan Walmart, Authorities Say
Mar 4 2024 // CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A driver who crashed her sport-utility vehicle into a Walmart store in suburban Detroit was likely having a health incident at the time, authorities said Saturday. The woman and four other...
Louisiana Furniture Retailer Settles Race Discrimination Lawsuit for $105K
Feb 9 2024 // A furniture retailer and lessor based in Louisiana has agreed to pay a former employee $105,000 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency...
Walmart to Pay $60K over Sex Discrimination Case at Iowa Store
Jan 25 2024 // Walmart will pay $60,000 and provide other relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced. The EEOC charged in its suit that...
People Moves: Hagerty to Head US Retail Property at Everest Insurance; AIG Hires Navagamuwa as Chief Information Officer
Nov 20 2023 // Roshan Navagamuwa joins American International Group, Inc. (AIG) in December as executive vice president and chief information officer, effective January 1, 2024. AIG is headquartered in New York, N.Y. Navagamuwa joins AIG...
Walmart to Build $350M Milk Plant in Georgia to Expand Control of Dairy Supply
Oct 12 2023 // VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — Walmart announced it will build a new $350 million milk processing plant in south Georgia, hiring nearly 400 people. Arkansas-based Walmart said the plant will provide milk to more than 750...
Gunman in Texas Walmart Shooting Ordered to Pay Restitution of $5 Million
Sep 27 2023 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A white Texas gunman who killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019 after ranting about Hispanics taking over the government and economy has agreed to pay more than $5 million to victims of the racist...
EEOC Files Lawsuit Against Walmart for Alleged Discrimination of Disabled Employees
Sep 15 2023 // Walmart, Inc. and Walmart Stores Arkansas, LLC, a multinational retailer, violated federal law when it subjected a nationwide class of employees with disabilities to unlawful testing, the U.S. Equal Employment...
Walmart Sued by EEOC Over Test That Screened Out Disabled Workers
Sep 14 2023 // The U.S. agency that enforces workplace discrimination laws said on Wednesday that it had sued Walmart Inc over allegations it fired hourly workers with disabilities who could not pass a computer-based test. The Equal...
EEOC Sues Oklahoma Powersports Vehicle Retailer for Sex Discrimination
Sep 13 2023 // Vicars Powersports, a McAlester, Oklahoma retailer of ATVs, UTVs, dirt bikes, motorcycles and personal watercraft, violated federal law when it fired a female manager because she is a woman, the U.S. Equal Employment...
Drug Retailer Rite Aid Prepares to File for Bankruptcy Over Opioid Lawsuits: WSJ
Aug 28 2023 // Rite Aid Corp. is preparing to file for bankruptcy in coming weeks to address lawsuits the drugstore chain is facing over its alleged role in the sale of opioids, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people...
Dollar General Again Caught in OSHA’s Crosshairs; Retailer’s Fines Top $21M in 6 Years
Jul 19 2023 // Federal workplace safety inspectors at two Tampa, Florida-area Dollar General stores said they found the company again exposing employees to fire hazards and other unsafe conditions, continuing the long history of worker...
Man Behind 2021 Walmart Fires Along Gulf Coast Sentenced to 18 years
Jun 5 2023 // An Alabama federal judge has sentenced the man who admits being the leader of a scheme to set fires to Walmart stores along the Gulf Coast to 18 years in prison – double the recommended sentence. As part of a plea...
Walmart Paying California $500K in Settlement Over Sale of Brass Knuckles
May 25 2023 // Walmart will pay half a million dollars to settle allegations from California’s Department of Justice that it was selling brass knuckles on its website, state Attorney General Rob Bonta said. Brass knuckles are...
Walmart Faces Second Lawsuit This Week Over Treatment of Workers
Mar 31 2023 // Walmart Inc. was sued on Thursday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency’s second lawsuit this week accusing the largest U.S. retailer of discrimination against workers with...
Walmart Pumps $200M Into India’s PhonePe, to Build Insurance, Wealth Businesses
Mar 17 2023 // Indian digital payments firm PhonePe said on Friday it has raised $200 million from majority backer Walmart Inc. at a pre-money valuation of $12 billion. PhonePe, already India’s most valuable payments firm and among...
Families of Texas School Shooting Settle Suit With Ammo Retailer
Mar 6 2023 // The families of those killed and injured in a 2018 Texas high school shooting have settled a lawsuit they had filed against a Tennessee-based online retailer accused of illegally selling ammunition to the student who...
Walmart Loses Challenge to OSHA Finding in Injury at New York Warehouse
Feb 28 2023 // Walmart Inc. violated federal workplace safety standards at its warehouse in Johnstown, New York, when it failed to prevent stored merchandise from falling onto – and seriously injuring – an employee in 2017, a federal...
