The Latest Breaking News from Walmart

A year ago, the law changed in Texas to allow stores to sell beer and wine before noon on Sundays. People who moved to the state never quite understood why grocery stores’ big, elaborate wine and beer sections were out of bounds because of the time on the clock.

A Walmart-led effort to allow more retailers to sell liquor in Texas is off the table for now.

Walmart holds a comfortable lead as the largest online U.S. grocer, according to the new national e-commerce forecast from Insider Intelligence, but there’s a fierce battle for No. 2 between Amazon and Instacart.

Walmart unwrapped its annual top toy list Tuesday, nearly a month earlier than last year.

Two weeks ago, more than 160 gun owners in Richmond, Virginia, turned in 474 firearms in the city’s first-ever gun buyback event. City officials offered Walmart, Amazon and Kroger gift cards in various amounts for different unwanted firearms: $250 for assault-style weapons, $200 for handguns, $150 for rifles and $25…

Walmart has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission that accuses the retailer of allowing its money-transfer services to be used by scam artists

CNBC No More Free COVID-19 At-Home Tests, Federal Government Says

Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on Walmart (NYSE:WMT). And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates’ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has a substantial portfolio of investments, which several investors keenly follow. Bill Gates has been recently buying shares of Ecolab (ECL). Given ECL’s disappointing financials and bleak growth prospects, we think it could be wise to wait for a…