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The U.S. retailing giant is partnering with Japan's biggest e-commerce company with the aim of advancing in a competitive international market. Walmart has also announced layoffs at its headquarters.

NPR price-checks 114 items at a Walmart in Georgia to see how costs have changed in a year.

Also: IMF chief warns of a "lost decade;" Greece's prime minister is expected to resign today; and Wal-Mart plans an ambitious expansion into medical care.

A coalition of labor unions, women's advocates and members of Congress is leading a U.S. campaign protesting Wal-Mart's wages and employment practices. The effort is called "Love Mom, Not Wal-Mart."

Retail giant Wal-Mart is facing criticism over an internal memo that proposes aggressive moves to trim employee benefit costs, such as discouraging unhealthy people from taking jobs at Wal-Mart. The company, whose stock price has dropped over the last year, is under pressure from investors to cut costs.

Something truly nice is happening this holiday season: Strangers are paying off needy families' layaway bills.

Officials are looking into four confirmed cases of the dangerous bacteria discovered in the sprays. Two deaths associated with the bacteria are being investigated.

The pregnant customer went into labor in the toilet paper aisle. Fortunately plenty of people were around. A nearby nurse leapt into action and the store manager held up a sheet for privacy.

Some conservative groups argue that DEI policies are themselves discriminatory and are pressuring corporations to drop them.

Wal-Mart is closing a store in a small northern Quebec city after employees voted to unionize. The closure has the blue-collar town -- and the store's employees -- divided over who's to blame.