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The retailer says it hired 235,000 staffers to keep up with demand during the coronavirus pandemic. Its online sales jumped 74%. Shoppers visited stores less frequently but spent more on each trip.

Someone — anonymously — went into two Wal-Mart and paid more than $100,000 — moving everything off layaway. Meaning, gifts some customers were trying to buy, are now theirs.

NPR has tracked the prices of dozens of items at the same superstore in Georgia, including eggs, T-shirts, snacks and paper towels. Here's what got cheaper over the past year, and more expensive.

One year ago, residents of Inglewood, Calif., voted to block the development of a Wal-Mart superstore. NPR's Farai Chideya talks with California assemblyman Jerome Horton and Wal-Mart's vice-president of corporate affairs Bob McAdam, about on-going negotiations over the corporation's expansion plans in the city.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Democratic Virginia state Senator L Louise Lucas about the shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake that killed five people.

Across the country, communities are turning abandoned big-box stores like Kmart and Wal-Mart into churches, schools and libraries. Julia Christensen, an artist and professor, visited many of these sprawling structures to see how they are being repurposed.

Corporate Executives on Wednesday told thousands of employees that stores will be warmer. Also, a human DJ will now pick the music that is heard throughout the store.

The retailer says starting in April, thousands of full- and part-time employees will make $9 an hour.

The risk from the recalled shrimp is "quite low," said Donald Schaffner, a food safety expert at Rutgers University. Cesium-137 is a byproduct of nuclear reactions.

Walmart, the world's largest retailer, wants to be more of a tech company. So it's leaving the New York Stock Exchange and joining the NASDAQ.