Walmart to Stop Paying New Employees Extra to Work Sundays

As part of its efforts to reduce its labor costs, Walmart plans to stop paying its staff an extra $1 an hour for working Sundays starting in 2011, according to Bloomberg. The move won’t affect the retailer’s 1.4 million current…

Dollar Stores Are Taking Walmart’s Lunch Money

Thrifty shoppers looking for low prices on basics are frequently passing up the big boxes of Walmart for the tighter aisles of their local dollar stores. The cheaper upstarts have replaced no-name products with nationally known…

Gap Test Drives Apple’s iPhone Point-of-Sale System

I’m a big admirer of the sleek point-of-sale system that allows Apple Store employees to run credit card transactions on iPhones or iPod Touch devices. Now, Apple is going to offer its POS system to other retailers, a move that…