Wal-Mart released a new mobile payment app for Maryland shoppers today. The app, Wal-Mart Pay, allows customers to check out by simply using their phone camera to scan a picture of the cash register code, activating the app. The cashiers ...

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  BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it will be testing its grocery delivery service with ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft in the next two weeks in Denver and Phoenix. That’s in addition to a quiet pilot program that ...

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Wal-Mart is closing 269 stores, more than half of them in the U.S., including the only store in Baltimore. The company will shutter its store in Port Covington effective Jan. 17. It’s the only Wal-Mart in Maryland that will be ...

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The mobile payment wars are heating up. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, said it’s launching its own mobile payment system that will allow shoppers to pay with any major credit or debit card or its own store gift ...

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Wal-Mart has agreed to pay $75,000 to an employee at its Landover Hills location who alleged he was harassed by a manager for his national origin and religion. Ebrima Jallow, who is Gambian and Muslim, was allegedly told by the ...

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Hoping to shed its reputation for offering little more than dead-end jobs, Wal-Mart, the nation's biggest private employer, is giving raises to nearly a half-million workers and offering what it says are more opportunities for advancement.

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Wal-Mart's decision to stop paying for health insurance for employees who work less than 30 hours a week may sound like bad news, especially for those 30,000 workers and their families.

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for some of its part-time U.S. employees in a move aimed at controlling rising health care costs of the nation's largest private employer.

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Wal-Mart is introducing a mobile checking account for its customers that will eliminate the overdraft and bounced-check fees traditionally charged by banks.

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is upping the ante on price matching.

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