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Ed Chan was president and chief executive of Walmart China for the last five years, overseeing the retailer's rapid expansion in the China market. Walmart says Chan's resignation, and the departure of another executive in China, are for personal reasons, and are not related to a food labeling scandal the company is facing right now.

People gathered in Chesapeake, Va., for a candlelight vigil Monday to honor the victims of the Walmart mass shooting. The shooter, a supervisor at Walmart, turned the gun on himself.

Police are still working to identify the vehicle and driver in the Sunday afternoon incident.

The retailer's objection puts the settlement in serious doubt.

In the last six weeks, 13 people have died of overdoses in Clark County. That’s compared to 17 fatal overdoses in all of 2022. Friday from noon to 6 p.m., the Clark County Health Department will hold an event in the Winchester Walmart parking lot that’s designed to save lives.

The top state law enforcement officials also told Craigslist, eBay and Facebook that they have "an ethical obligation" to root out spiking prices on hand sanitizers and other high-demand products.

Wal-Mart could face significant legal liability following a report accusing the company of systematic bribery in Mexico. A report in The New York Times claims Wal-Mart officials in Mexico paid more than $20 million in bribes to help the company open more stores there. The story also says top Wal-Mart executives in the U.S. looked the other way. The company's stock price fell nearly 5 percent Monday.

Linda talks with Dale Ingram, a spokesman for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. They'll talk about why the nation's largest department store chain refuses to carry singer Sheryl Crow's newest album. The CD includes a song called "Love Is A Good Thing" that refers to Wal-Mart by name as a place where children purchase guns. Ingram claims that the lyrics are an unfair attack on the retail chain, saying that the company has strict policies that prohibit the sale of firearms to minors. In fact, Wal-Mart stopped selling handguns in its stores in 1994, making them available only through its catalogue.

Monday’s early morning theft of Apple iPads and other electronics from Winchester’s Walmart was not an isolated incident. Police believe the suspects, a…

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about a ruling by a federal judge that a gender-discrimination lawsuit against the giant Wal-Mart retail chain could move forward as a class action suit. The decision makes this the largest civil-rights action case ever brought against a private employer in the United States, and could involve more than 1.6 million current and former employees.