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Bad Santa: Instead of Helping the Less Fortunate, Walmart Employees Spend Significant Chunk of $80,000 Layaway Donation on Themselves
Like millions of other people, my holiday season was pretty trash. It’s hard to be filled with gratitude and yuletide cheer when seasonal affective disorder won’t let you be great, your loved ones are nowhere to be found, or the financial strain of Christmas gifts burrowing into your bank account replaces your joy with suffocating…
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Deal Drop: Someone Hates Walmart Enough to Infest One of Its Stores With Bedbugs
Well, here’s something you don’t want to pick up from Walmart during the post-holiday sales: As reported by CNN, a store location in Edinboro, Pa., has been deliberately infested with bedbugs, seemingly dispensed via the men’s changing room. A manager at the store in Edinboro found a closed pill bottle with live bugs crawling inside…
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Let It Blow, Let It Blow, Let It Blow: With Apologies, Walmart Pulls a Sweater Showing Santa Doing…Cocaine?
There are ugly Christmas sweaters—and apparently, there are cocaine-fueled ones. Take, for instance, the ill-advised sweater Walmart is currently apologizing for, which depicts a bug-eyed and grinning white Santa (because Megyn Kelly already told us he ain’t black) bearing what appears to be a straw in hand, ready to snort up the lines of “snow”…
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This White Woman Don’t Know Nann ‘Ni**er Bitch,’ but She Made the Mistake and Called Trina One Anyway
Shout-out to the white woman who didn’t get the “baddest bitch” memo. Yes, I know that nomenclature refers to Trina’s dime-piece ranking, but best believe her “baddest bitch” status also refers to the fact that she would indeed, cut a bitch if necessary. If you saw the infamous “light the blunt” Instagram story, y’all know…
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Walmart Will No Longer Sell Assault-Style Ammunition, Allow Customers to Open Carry: 'The Status Quo Is Unacceptable'
Does Walmart finally have a conscience? On Tuesday, the largest retailer in America announced that it will no longer sell ammunition for assault-style rifles and handguns. This announcement came exactly one month to the day after a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, claimed the lives of 22 people. “We understand our…
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Twisted Logic: Walmart Goes Easy on Guns, But Is Still Holding Black Beauty Products Under Lock and Key
On Aug. 4, an El Paso, Texas, Walmart was the site of one of the deadliest mass shootings in the history of this country, sparking renewed debate about whether the retailer should still be in the gun business. This, after its Beavercreek, Ohio, location earned the dubious distinction of being the site of the 2014…
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Merry Christmas: Tyler Perry Pays Off All Layaway Accounts at 2 Atlanta Walmarts
Playwright, actor, director and producer Tyler Perry just added one more title to his already long list of accolades: Secret Santa. In a move meant to make Christmas a little bit brighter for some Atlanta families this year, Perry paid off all the layaway accounts at two Atlanta area Walmart stores, to the tune of…
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For Parents Whose Blood Pressure Gets Raised Because of Product Recalls When ’Tussin and Wine Ain’t Enough
I was driving my daughter to school this morning, gleefully coasting across the Washington, D.C., area’s Woodrow Wilson Bridge, named after possibly the most racist president of all time, a true accomplishment considering that several presidents actually owned slaves, when my phone buzzed. Like many folks, I get an alarming (no pun intended) number of…
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Secret Santa Spends $29,000 to Pay Off Every Single Layaway Account at a Pennsylvania Walmart
Christmas is just 22 days away, and undoubtedly a good number of people have been rushing around, overextending their budgets and trying to figure out how to make a dollar out of 15 cents as they put together a happy Christmas for the family and friends. For some people, the work to build up a…
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Walmart Wants Cindy ‘Front Row at a Lynching’ Hyde-Smith to Run Them Their Money
Walmart donated to Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s campaign but now say the gift was prior to her giving her notorious “Cindy Lynch speech.” Now Wally World has asked her to come to the returns and exchange counter with her receipt. According to Politico, the whole fiasco came to light after actress Debra Messing pointed out…