Latest Retail Headlines
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Florida Juries Ding Walmart, Hospital for Injuries
Nov 5 2021 // Florida juries in the last month have returned two hefty verdicts in favor of plaintiffs, one for a slip and fall at a Walmart and one for the death of a stroke patient at a hospital. In Apopka, near Orlando, a jury...
Minnesota Furniture Retailer Fined $60,000 for Denying Hire to Transgender Applicant
Oct 28 2021 // Frizzell Furniture, a furniture retailer with locations in northern Minnesota, has agreed to pay $60,000 and has committed to providing training and revising its policies to resolve a finding of gender identity...
Retailer Neiman Marcus Notifies 4.6M Customers of Data Breach
Oct 1 2021 // Dallas-based retailer Neiman Marcus Group said it recently learned that an unauthorized party obtained personal information associated with customers’ online accounts in May. NMG said it notified law enforcement of...
Ford, Walmart and Self-Driving Startup Argo AI to Launch Autonomous Vehicle Delivery
Sep 20 2021 // Self-driving startup Argo AI, automaker Ford Motor Co. and Walmart Inc. will together launch an autonomous vehicle delivery service in Miami, Austin, and Washington, D.C, the companies said on Wednesday [Sept. 15]. Initial...
Wisconsin Jury: Walmart Must Pay $125M in Down Syndrome Discrimination Case
Jul 19 2021 // A Wisconsin jury said Walmart must pay more than $125 million after finding against the company in a federal disability discrimination lawsuit. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said the eight-member...
FBI Offers Reward for Information on Walmart Fires in Alabama, Mississippi
Jun 8 2021 // Federal investigators are offering $2,500 rewards for tips leading to people who set fires inside Walmart stores in Alabama and Mississippi. The FBI posted Saturday security camera photos of masked people inside stores in...
Relaxed Mask Rules Make Some Retail Workers Nervous
May 24 2021 // An abrupt relaxation of mask policies has left workers at some retail and grocery stores reeling as they try to sort out what the new environment means for their own safety and relationship with customers. Kroger, the...
French Retailer Sued over Amazon Deforestation Linked to Cattle Raising
Mar 5 2021 // PARIS – Environmental groups and indigenous activists from the Amazon region filed a lawsuit Wednesday in a French court alleging that France-based supermarket chain Groupe Casino is violating human rights and...
Judge Dismisses Walmart Lawsuit Over Pharmacy Liability in Opioid Crisis
Feb 5 2021 // A federal judge has dismissed Walmart Inc’s lawsuit seeking to preemptively block the U.S. government from blaming the world’s largest retailer for its alleged role in fueling the nation’s opioid...
Walmart Denies U.S. Charges It Fueled Opioid Crisis by Filling ‘Illegitimate Prescriptions’
Dec 23 2020 // The U.S. Justice Department sued Walmart Inc. on Tuesday, accusing the world’s biggest retailer of fueling the opioid crisis in the United States, ignoring warning signs from its pharmacists and filling thousands of...
From Insurers to Landlords, Retailers to Restaurants, COVID Reshapes Economies
Dec 18 2020 // It would be just a temporary precaution. When the viral pandemic erupted in March, employees of the small digital insurance firm Thimble fled their Manhattan offices. CEO Jay Bregman planned to call them back soon — as...
$17M Award for Woman Injured at Walmart OK’d by W. Virginia High Court
Nov 30 2020 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has affirmed a jury verdict of nearly $17 million for a woman who was injured when Walmart staffers tried to detain a shoplifter. The court rejected the retail giant’s appeal on Nov....
Indiana Retailer Says Limited-Edition Guitars Worth $95K Stolen at Truck Stop
Nov 9 2020 // An Indiana retailer of musical instruments is seeking the public’s help after a pallet of limited-edition guitars worth tens of thousands of dollars were stolen from a suburban Indianapolis truck stop. Sweetwater...
Retail Investors Placed Bids for Record $3 Trillion of Shares in Ant Group’s IPO
Nov 2 2020 // Retail investors placed bids for a record $3 trillion of shares in Ant Group Co. Ltd.’s dual listing in an unprecedented show of interest by mom-and-pop savers betting on demand for its financial services in...
Walmart Sues U.S. to Clarify Pharmacy Liability in Opioid Crisis
Oct 23 2020 // Walmart Inc. said on Thursday it had filed a lawsuit against the federal government, seeking clarity on the roles and legal responsibilities of pharmacists and pharmacies in filling opioid prescriptions. Walmart said...
Election Security: Retailers Board Up Stores Amid Fears Over More Civil Unrest
Oct 21 2020 // This time last year, shoppers on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile were waiting for Louis Vuitton to debut its whimsical holiday window decorations. Now those same windows are hidden behind a wall of wood panels painted...
Insurance Acquisition Completes Shift Auto Retailer Deal; IPO Launches
Oct 16 2020 // Shares of Shift Technologies Inc. fell 6.7% in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday after the online used-car seller went public through a reverse-merger deal with blank check firm Insurance Acquisition Corp. Shift shares were...
Department Store Blames Insurers As It Files Bankruptcy and Shuts Down
Sep 10 2020 // Century 21 Stores, an iconic New York off-price department store chain, filed for bankruptcy with plans to shut down, becoming the latest victim of the retail industry carnage that’s accelerated during the...
Pullback by Wary Credit Insurers Leaves Suppliers, Retailers in Bind
Sep 8 2020 // Gold Medal International is sitting on millions of dollars worth of socks at its North Carolina warehouse that it can’t ship to stores. The reason? The 66-year-old family-owned sock maker can’t get enough...
West Virginia AG Sues Walmart, CVS Over State Flooding of Opioids
Aug 21 2020 // West Virginia’s attorney general sued Walmart and drugstore chain CVS on Tuesday, saying they failed to monitor and report suspicious orders of prescription painkillers to their retail pharmacies in a state ravaged...
