http://twitter.com/#!/_AskHim_/status/478386513667829760 No, not really. http://twitter.com/#!/OhVickyYuSoFine/status/478199841370431489 “Walmart is no longer taking EBT”? Next we’ll find out that cnn.com.sundaytimesdaily.com is a legitimate CNN website. http://twitter.com/#!/DoMe_AFlavorPlz/status/478208192196124673 http://twitter.com/#!/OhVickyYuSoFine/status/478208706585575424 But the Twitter rumor mill isn’t about to let a phony-looking URL stop it from spreading the “news” that Walmart is no longer accepting food stamps. PSA: EBT NO LONGER ACCEPTED […]
http://twitter.com/#!/WalmartNewsroom/status/407909021921062912 Once again, a story from The Daily Currant — “an English language online satirical newspaper”— has been mistaken for reality. This time, it was the fictional story of a multiple stabbing at a Chicago Walmart that seemed just crazy enough to be true, and which spread far enough to compel Walmart to issue a tweet correcting […]
http://twitter.com/#!/akacharleswade/status/521856147142479872 #FergusonOctober protests continued Monday with a #MoralMondays Day of Civil Disobedience, which led demonstrators into at least three Ferguson-area Walmart stores to draw attention to the shooting death of John Crawford III in an Ohio Walmart in August. Police say Crawford was waving an air rifle inside the store and ignored their commands to drop his weapon and […]
You’ll find a Walmart store in most American towns and cities. These stores are almost always giant, taking up an average 2.5 football fields worth of space. So what happens when one of them closes? It’s an awful lot of space to just let sit there. Officials in McAllen, Texas, were faced with this problem when their […]
http://twitter.com/#!/Tyrangiel/status/408064013247840256 With all the problems HealthCare.gov has had with it’s stumbling roll-out, its developers might be feeling better now that Walmart’s web site has experienced an outage. One huge difference: the Walmart site had more than a billion views during the past week: http://twitter.com/#!/CNBC/status/407956644346470400 By comparison, HealthCare.gov claimed 1 million “visits” on Monday: http://twitter.com/#!/HealthCareGov/status/407877028084342784 We’re not sure […]
