Tag: WALMART

Walmart, America's most sprawling and infamous retailer, is now attempting to corner the death market. The discount warehouse has recently launched a line of caskets and urns on its online store, Walmart.com. The caskets run anywhere from $895 to $3,199, but for the moderate price of $1,699, for instance, you can get the Executive Privilege casket for your business-class loved one. Although ...

Walmart, the world's largest retailer, is beefing up its Web presence and hoping to take a swipe at Amazon's market share by letting third-party stores sell on its site. [From: All Things Digital] Nick Cave, influential musician and author, is joining the eBook world by reading his newest novel, 'The Death of Bunny Munro,' for the iPhone. However, Cave goes a step further by also recording ...

It may sound like something out or a comic book, but a lawsuit out of West Virginia claims that Netflix and Wal-Mart executives held a secret dinner meeting and conspired to reduce competition in their respective fields. This evil meeting of the minds allegedly took place in 2005, and Netflix agreed to stay out of the DVD sales market if Wal-Mart steered clear of the DVD rental market. Agreeing ...

Oh, geez. Not this again. Just months after everyone involved with that virus-ridden Insignia frame finally cleaned things up, here comes two new reports that select frames could indeed be shipping from the factory with malware pre-installed. For starters, the 1.5-inch Mercury Digital Photo Keychain -- which is sold at Wal-Mart and other fine retailers -- seems to have some pretty nasty software ...

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Walmart_iPhone_on_sale_the_28th_for_a_lot_more_than_99'; At this point, it's clear that the $99 iPhone 3G rumor was just that: rumor. We have a letter that we believe to be authentic from a source within Wal-mart that says the iPhone will launch in the house that Sam built at 9am December 28th. At launch, only the 8GB ($197) and 16GB ($297) iPhone ...

We've heard the rumors, but now it's official: Wal-Mart will soon be selling everyone's favorite touch screen-handset. Employees at several California-based stores confirmed to Bloomberg News that they were being trained to sell the iPhone. That would make the discount chain the 2nd major retailer to sell the handset -- Best Buy started offering Apple's phone in September. There is still no word ...

Two attempted shoplifters at a Kansas Wal-Mart shocked an employee with a Taser when he tried to bar them from leaving the store, Propeller learned today from Say What?. Amazingly, the employee -- with the help of a colleague -- managed to retain the two women until authorities arrived. While, according to Say What?, the women are being charged with both theft and battery, the assaulted ...

Look, we know you've been holding out for the iPhone to hit Wal-Mart before you pick it up, sandwiched between the fishing gear and row upon row of exercise videos -- and we don't blame you. You'll ride your shopping cart down the wide aisles like a chariot, and when you get home with the phone you'll dial up all your friends and let them know how much cheaper your iPhone was than theirs. What ...

Remember the days of watching big box retailers like a hawk to see if more shelf space was being given to Blu-ray or HD DVD? Yeah, epic times. Now, however, a new report is suggesting that Wal-Mart may be giving more of its packaged media space to Blu-ray Discs rather than music CDs. The reason? A 23-percent decline in CD sales during the first four weeks of Q4. Richard Greenfield, analyst with ...

Can't wait for Black Friday? Neither could two suspects in Virginia Beach. Reportedly, a crafty duo entered a local Wal-Mart late last week, with one placing a Samsung Blu-ray player in her cart while the other placed a DVD / VCR combo unit in his cart. Once that was complete, the two met in the pet section, swapped the unwanted DVD / VCR unit out for a Blu-ray deck and proceeded to checkout. ...

Well, now isn't this something? Best Buy has its fancy little iPhone 3G, but it'll be Wally World offering up the G1 outside of official T-Mobile outlets. As we'd heard yesterday, 550 Wal-Mart stores across the country will begin selling the Android-powered handset beginning tomorrow, and folks who opt to pick one up here versus a traditional T-Mob store will save $31.11. Yep -- according to ...

We've certainly seen companies use the well-trafficked floors of Wal-Mart to springboard certain products and / or services before, but this one has us scratching our noggins, for sure. Apparently Time Warner Cable has secured a deal that will allow it to market its cable, broadband internet access and digital phone service in nearly 700 Wal-Mart locations. Reportedly, customers can sign up for ...

Legendary guitar company Gibson filed a patent-infringement suit against Viacom and Electronic Arts, the makers of 'Guitar Hero,' alleging that 'Rock Band''s unique controller and gameplay are currently covered by a Gibson patent. This news doesn't come as too much of a surprise. Earlier this month, Gibson alerted Activision that its 'Guitar Hero' game infringes on earlier Gibson patents, ...

Richard Reinhardt, or, as he's more commonly known, Richie Ramone, is suing just about every company under the sun that offers digital music downloads, including Apple, Real Networks, and Wal-Mart. The former drummer of the seminal 1970s-1980s punk band The Ramones is even going after the estate of Johnny Ramone, the band's late lead guitarist. What's Reinhardt's beef? According to reports, ...

Wal-Mart is now targeting college students via the quickly expanding Facebook social networking site. Wal-Mart has created the "Roommate Style Match" group on Facebook and plans to keep the app operating through October 31st. The application asks users a series of questions about taste and style in addition to goals for college and their personal space. The quiz then provides a general style type ...