Renee Dudley

Customers walk into a Walmart store in Methuen, Mass. in this Feb. 20, 2012, photo. (Elise Amendola, AP)

Bare shelves becoming widespread at Wal-Marts

More than 1,000 emailed complaints signal that Wal-Mart Stores’s restocking challenges are more widespread than the world’s largest retailer has said.

Wal-Mart customers from Hawaii to Florida and from Texas to Vermont wrote to express their frustration after Bloomberg News reported March 26 that there aren’t enough workers in the stores to keep shelves stocked, cash registers manned and shoppers’ questions answered. In response to the original article, Wal-Mart spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan said in part, “The premise of this story, which is based on the comments of a handful of people, is inaccurate and not representative of what is happening in our stores across the country.”

Joseph Barbarito, of Rifton, N.Y., holds a sign outside the Walmart in Danbury, Conn. Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 during a protest to deliver a petition signed by more than 250,000 Walmart customers and concerned citizens nationwide urging the retail giant to stop the sale of assault weapons and munitions. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post,Autumn Driscoll )

Walmart being pressured to halt some gun sales

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Since the Academy of New Media Middle School in Columbus, Ohio, opened in 2011, it has scraped by, with its principal cleaning toilets and a math teacher pressed into service as school nurse. Only $250,000 in gifts from the Walton Family Foundation keeps the 85-student charter school alive.

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