Latest Retail Headlines

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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...

Families of 2018 Texas School Shooting Settle Suit With Ammo Retailer

Feb 14 2023 // HOUSTON (AP) – 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...

Supreme Court Rejects Gun Retailers’ Objection to New York Regulations

Jan 19 2023 // The US Supreme Court refused to block new safety and record-keeping requirements that apply to New York gun retailers, letting the provisions stay in effect while a legal fight goes forward.The justices, without...

Massachusetts Settles With Walmart Over Workers’ Compensation Drug Prices

Dec 7 2022 // Retail pharmacy Walmart, Inc. has agreed to pay $500,000 to Massachusetts after allegedly failing to follow the state’s prescription pricing procedures designed to keep costs down in the workers’ compensation...

Oregon OSHA Fines Mattress Retailer for Exposing Workers to Vehicle Safety Hazards

Dec 2 2022 // Oregon OSHA fined Mattress Megastore in Hillsboro more than $66,000 for multiple workplace safety violations, including willfully exposing employees to serious injury or death from potential traffic accidents.The penalties...

Walmart Sued by Employee Over Deadly Shooting

Nov 30 2022 // An employee at the Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, where a supervisor fatally shot six people last week, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the company, claiming she and others had warned management about the...

Ohio Court Revives Wrongful Death Claim in Walmart Shooting

Nov 29 2022 // CINCINNATI (AP) – A federal appeals court has revived a wrongful death claim against Walmart by the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a white police officer inside an Ohio store after picking up a pellet...

Walmart Shooting Raises Need for Violence Prevention at Work

Nov 28 2022 // The mass shooting Wednesday at a Walmart in Virginia was only the latest example of a workplace shooting perpetrated by an employee.But while many companies provide active shooter training, experts say there is much less...

Walmart Offers to Pay $3.1B to Settle Opioid Lawsuits

Nov 17 2022 // Walmart proposed a $3.1 billion legal settlement on Tuesday over the toll of powerful prescription opioids sold at its pharmacies, becoming the latest major drug industry player to promise major support to state, local and...

CVS, Walgreens and Walmart to Pay $13.8B to Settle U.S. Opioid Claims: Sources

Nov 2 2022 // CVS Health Corp, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and Walmart Inc. have tentatively agreed to pay about $13.8 billion to resolve thousands of U.S. state and local government lawsuits accusing the chains of mishandling opioid...

Louisiana Furniture Retailer Sued for Race Discrimination

Sep 28 2022 // Affordable Rent-to-Own, LLC, doing business as Affordable Home Furnishings, a furniture retailer and lessor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, violated federal law when it subjected an African American manager-in-training to a...

Walmart, CVS Agree to Settle West Virginia Opioid Suit for $147 Million

Sep 22 2022 // Walmart and CVS Pharmacy have settled with the state of West Virginia for a combined total of $147 million in a lawsuit over the companies’ roles in contributing to the oversupply of prescription drugs that fueled...

Retailers Ordered to Pay $650 Million Over Ohio Opioid Sales

Sep 5 2022 // Walmart Inc., CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. were ordered to pay a total of $650 million over their failure to properly monitor opioid prescriptions in Ohio, in the drug industry’s latest setback...

Lawsuit Filed Over Violent Arrest Outside Arkansas Convenience Store

Sep 1 2022 // A man who was beaten and held down by Arkansas law enforcement officers during an arrest that was caught on a widely circulated video has filed a federal lawsuit against the officers.Attorneys for Randal Worcester filed...

Walmart Ordered to Pay Oregon Man $4.4M for Racial Profiling

Aug 25 2022 // A Multnomah County grand jury has ordered Walmart to pay $4.4 million in damages to a man who sued the store, saying he was racially profiled and harassed by a Walmart employee at a Portland, Oregon, area store in...

Texas Wireless Retailer to Pay $30,000 over Sexual Harassment Suit

Aug 23 2022 // Al Meghani Enterprises, Inc., doing business as The Wireless Solutions, a specialty retailer of wireless products, services and accessories, has agreed to pay $30,000 in damages and furnish other relief in order to settle...

Walmart, CVS, Walgreens Ordered to Pay $650 Million Over Ohio Opioid Sales

Aug 18 2022 // Walmart Inc., CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. were ordered to pay a total of $650 million over their failure to properly monitor opioid prescriptions in Ohio, in the drug industry’s latest setback...