Walmart
American multinational retail corporation operating department stores
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| 2025 | Walmart reaches $674 billion in annual revenue, employs 2.1 million people globally, and operates 10,771 stores worldwide, marking a significant milestone in the company's continued global expansion and market dominance. |
| September 2 2025 | Walmart added Peacock to Walmart+, offering consumers a choice between Peacock and Paramount+ with the ability to switch between services every 90 days. |
| July 26 2025 | A mass stabbing occurs in a Walmart store in Traverse City, Michigan, with eleven people stabbed, some with life-threatening injuries. |
| June 2025 | Walmart renewed its partnership with Synchrony Financial to issue their credit card, reviving a collaboration that ended in 2018. |
| 2025 | Walmart closed several U.S. offices and consolidated corporate associates into its Bentonville headquarters and West Coast offices in Sunnyvale, California. |
| January 13 2025 | Walmart unveiled a new logo designed by Jones Knowles Ritchie and Landor, featuring a redesigned spark and a new custom wordmark 'Everyday Sans'. |
| 2024 | Walmart reaches a record revenue of $648 billion and reports a net income of $15.5 billion, demonstrating continued financial strength |
| 2024 | Walmart launched Bettergoods, a new higher-end grocery product line with over 300 initial items, focused on innovative culinary experiences, plant-based alternatives, and specialized dietary products. |
| 2024 | Walmart announces closure of the Toronto technology hub and relocation of staff to US locations, with pending layoffs. |
| December 20 2024 | The Delaware Court of Chancery approved a settlement in the Ontario Provincial Council of Carpenters' Pension Trust Fund case, which included a 123 million dollar payment and Walmart's commitment to maintaining legal practices for at least 5 years. This was the second largest settlement in a derivative oversight case in Delaware history. |
| November 25 2024 | Walmart announced the ending of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and delisting of certain transgender-related products. |
| August 27 2024 | Walmart announced a new service to transport goods from Asia to the U.S. to compete more effectively with Amazon. |
| August 22 2024 | Walmart added Burger King discounts for Walmart+ members. |
| June 2024 | At a Walmart shareholder meeting, a resolution by The Accountability Board requesting publication of targets to end gestation crates in the pork supply chain received support from 12.5% of Walmart investors, despite the company's recommendation to vote against it. |
| February 2024 | Walmart reported achieving its 'Project Gigaton' goal of reducing Scope 3 emissions from suppliers by 1 billion metric tons by 2030. The company also announced stock grants up to $20,000 for managers and a 3-1 stock split to make stock ownership more accessible to employees. |
| February 2024 | Walmart announced the successful completion of its 'Project Gigaton' emissions reduction initiative, reaching its goal of reducing supplier emissions by 1 billion metric tons six years early. |
| February 2024 | Walmart announced managers will receive stock grants up to $20,000 and implemented a 3-1 stock split to make company stock more accessible to employees. |
| February 2024 | Walmart entered an agreement to acquire Vizio for $2.3 billion to expand advertising sales in video content. |
| January 2024 | Walmart announced plans to open over 150 new stores in the U.S. over the next five years and remodel 650 existing stores. |
| January 2024 | Walmart announced plans to open over 150 new stores and remodel 650 existing stores across 47 states and Puerto Rico. |
| 2023 | Transportation fuel emissions increased by 10%, reaching approximately 15.06 million metric tons of CO2. |
| 2023 | Refrigerant-related emissions increased by 5.3% due to equipment leaks across the United States and Mexico. |
| 2023 | Walmart opened a new 140,000 square foot supercentre in Montreal, increasing total Canadian locations to 403. The company also invested nearly $1 billion to renovate stores and launch its 'Store of the Future' in Mississauga, Ontario. |
| 2023 | Documentary film 'On Guard: A Story of American Youth' was released, directed by Allen Otto and executive produced by Jim Czarnecki, which highlights the impact of the 2019 El Paso Shooting. |
| November 16 2023 | Gail Lewis, a Walmart employee in Morris, Illinois, made her final viral TikTok video after ten years of working at the store, which received 25 million views in ten days. |
| July 7 2023 | Crusius was sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences for the shooting. |
| April 2023 | Walmart committed to adding electric vehicle charging stations at thousands of stores by 2030. |
| February 2023 | Walmart reported $611 billion in sales for the previous financial year, with profits nearly doubling from the previous year. |
| February 8 2023 | Crusius pleaded guilty to 90 federal murder and hate crime charges. |
| January 2023 | Walmart announced a minimum wage increase for hourly workers from $12 to $14 per hour, affecting approximately 340,000 employees. The company also committed to adding college degrees and certificates to its Live Better U program. |
| January 2023 | Walmart announced a minimum wage increase for U.S. hourly workers from $12 to $14 per hour, affecting approximately 340,000 employees. |
| January 2023 | Federal prosecutors declined to seek the death penalty for Crusius. |
| 2022 | Additional shareholder lawsuits continued, challenging Walmart's compliance with regulatory requirements. |
| 2022 | Walmart maintains its position as a global retail leader with $572 billion in revenue, though experiencing a slight reduction in total employees to 10,593 |
| 2022 | Walmart announced the sale of its Amigo supermarkets chain in Puerto Rico to Pueblo Inc., ending its 20-year ownership of the chain. |
| 2022 | Walmart opens a technology hub in Toronto at the CBC Broadcast Centre. |
| December 2022 | The El Paso Healing Garden was designated as a national memorial. |
| August 2022 | Walmart announced the acquisition of Volt Systems, a vendor management and product tracking software company. The company also announced that most stores would no longer operate 24 hours, instead being open between 6am and 11pm. |
| August 2022 | Walmart announced it would partner with Paramount to offer Paramount+ content to Walmart+ subscribers and acquired Volt Systems, a vendor management software company. |
| June 2022 | The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued Walmart, alleging the company facilitated money transfer fraud that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from customers. |
| June 2022 | Walmart announced the acquisition of Memomi, an augmented reality optical technology company. |
| 2021 | Shareholders filed lawsuits alleging Walmart breached its duties of ensuring compliance with the Controlled Substances Act and DEA settlement. |
| 2021 | Walmart Supercenter appeared in the film Ghostbusters: Afterlife, filmed at a Walmart store in Calgary, Alberta. |
| 2021 | Walmart's shipping operations produced 1.7 million metric tons of CO2, exceeding the emissions of a coal-fired power station. |
| 2021 | Jorge Majfud published the book 'La frontera salvaje. 200 años de fanatismo anglosajón en América latina', inspired by the El Paso shooting. |
| December 2021 | The Chinese Communist Party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection warned Walmart about removing products made from inputs from Xinjiang in response to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. |
| November 2021 | A federal jury found Walmart, along with Walgreens and CVS, substantially contributed to the opioid crisis, with damages totaling $650 million. |
| August 2021 | Walmart announced the expansion of its Spark crowdsource delivery service to other businesses as a white-label service. |
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