Walmart

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Walmart Inc. is an American company known for its chain of retail stores and ubiquitous presence across many states and even countries.

Walmart

Basic information
Founded	1962
Legal structure	Public
Industry	Retail
Official website	https://www.walmart.com/

Incidents

Weighted groceries settlement

In 2022 a class action lawsuit was filed against Walmart in Florida mainly alledging that Walmart falsely inflated product weight, mislabeled weight of bagged produce and overcharged for sold-by-weight clearance products. While Walmart denies any wrongdoing they agreed to pay $45 million to settle the case in 2024.

One-click sign up to paid service

When you use their app on the iPhone and iPad, a sizable (90%) of the screen popup with a very large button to one-click signup for Walmart+ with a small ‘x’ in the corner to close the popup and continue to the app proper.^{[citation needed]}

See Also

• Click-to-cancel
• The death of click to cancel & what we can do about it: CAT disapproves
• YouTube video about click to cancel