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Walmart will require all US employees to wear face masks starting on Monday.  The company will also encourage customers to wear masks or other facial coverings while shopping. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Walmart will require all 1.5 million of its United States employees to wear face masks starting Monday, the company said in a memo sent to stores late Friday.  "We...

Walmart is cutting operating hours at thousands of stores to give employees additional time to restock shelves and clean amid the coronavirus outbreak, the company said Saturday. "Unless they already have more reduced hours, stores will be open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. until further notice," the company said in a statement. The changes will affect about 2,200 of Walmart's 4,700 stores in...

Kroger will stop selling all vaping products, the company said Monday.  Kroger cited regulatory concerns as the reason for stopping the sale of e-cigarettes. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Kroger said Monday that it would stop selling all vaping products. "Kroger is discontinuing the sale of electronic nicotine delivery products, or e-cigarettes, at all store and fuel center locations due to the...

Walmart e-commerce CEO Marc Lore on Monday addressed "frustration and tension" between himself and Greg Foran, the company's head of stores.  "Greg's a great operator, and they're generating a lot of cash," Lore said during a live interview at Recode's CodeCommerce conference in New York. "Over on the e-commerce side, we're investing in it, we're losing money, and we're taking a bet on the...

Walmart corporate employee Thomas Marshall on Tuesday emailed a petition with more than 128,000 signatures to the company's CEO, Doug McMillon, demanding that Walmart stop selling guns and ammunition. "Customers no longer feel as safe as they once did in our stores," Marshall wrote in a message accompanying the petition.  Marshall is a Walmart e-commerce employee based in San Bruno, California, who helped organize...