By using iFunny you agree to our Privacy policy. In 2005, labor unions created new organizations and websites to criticize the company, including When Walmart plans a new store location, as often as not the company has to fight its way into town in the municipal equivalent of civil war between pro and anti Walmart factions.In 1998, Walmart proposed construction of a store west of the intersection of Charlotte Pike (In the 2010s, a proposal to build the Midtown Walmart supercenter in In 2014, researchers at the University of South Carolina and Sam Houston State University published the results of a study to determine if Walmart affects local crime rates. Some Assembly Required'.With over 2.2 million employees worldwide, Walmart has faced a torrent of lawsuits and issues with regards to its workforce. These issues involve According to a consultant hired by plaintiffs in a sex discrimination lawsuit, in 2001, Walmart's EEOC filings showed that female employees made up 65 percent of Walmart's hourly paid workforce, but only 33In January 2006, Walmart announced that "diversity efforts include new groups of minority, female and gay employees that meet at Walmart headquarters in Bentonville to advise the company on marketing and internal promotion. Long-term success is defined as survival until discharge from a hospital, with reported rates ranging from 2% all the way to 30%.In 2011, the Walmart store in Kirksville, Missouri, had an opportunity to participate in a local program which placed 26 AEDs in various schools, churches, and businesses. Predatory pricing 3. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and its pricing practices went on trial yesterday in an Arkansas courtroom, where three independent pharmacies are trying to … someone recognizing that there’s a cardiac arrest and starting CPR immediately, calling 911, and then using an automated defibrillator if one is available." Original Languages: English. The documentary In August 2006, Walmart announced that it would allow workers at all of its Chinese stores to become members of trade unions, and that the company would work with the state-sanctioned In May 2013, Walmart employees associated with a union-backed labor group called In July 2018, Walmart was granted a patent titled "Listening to the Frontend"In 2015, the Walmart CEO acknowledged a need for Walmart to refocus on cleanliness and tidiness, restocking shelves quickly, integration with digital, sideline businesses such as gas stations and care clinics, better selection such as in fresh produce, and correcting the situation in which Walmart prices were not always as low as those of competitors.In February 2013, Walmart received an American Customer Satisfaction Index rating of 71 as compared to 81 for Target, placing Walmart last for the year among retail and department stores.For Thanksgiving 2013 specials, Walmart included twenty-one items which included a one-hour guarantee, where customers would pay at that time and then go online to arrange delivery to a store of their choice by Christmas.In February 2014, a local NBC affiliate in Troy, Alabama, United States, showed photographs of empty shelves and aired customer complaints, with one customer stating, "And merchandise? Walmart spokesman Greg Rossiter said that Walmart policy is to terminate employees who take certain prescription medications, and he believed that this policy complied with the law.According to a September 2002 survey by the state of As of October 2005, Walmart's health insurance covered 44% or approximately 572,000 of its 1.3 million United States workers.On October 26, 2005, a Walmart internal memo sent to the firm's Board of Directors advised trimming over $1 billion in health care expenses by 2011 through measures such as attracting a younger, implicitly healthier work force by offering education benefits.On January 12, 2006, the Maryland legislature enacted a law requiring that all corporations with more than 10,000 employees in the state spend at least eight percent of their payroll on employee benefits, or pay into a state fund for the uninsured.On April 17, 2006, Walmart announced it was making a health care plan available to part-time workers after one year of service, instead of the prior two-year requirement.In March 2008, Walmart sued a former Walmart employee, Deborah Shank, to recover the money it spent for her health care after she was brain-damaged, restricted to a wheelchair, and nursing home-bound after her minivan was hit by a truck.