Traditional and online media are immersed in discussions of what Wal-Mart’s $8.99 price for 10 upcoming hardcover books means for the future of book publishers and book stores. But what many appear to be overlooking is how this is a very astute marketing strategy on the part of Wal-Mart.

Let's be honest, you cannot even physically discipline your own child in public nowadays. How about when a stranger does so, as happened with this man in Stone Mountain, GA who slapped someone else's child in a Wal-Mart?

It's amazing what will attract attention on the Web. A website called "People of Wal-Mart" has gone viral. It's premise: it asks customers of the mega-store to submit pictures of other Wal-Mart customers wearing dated, bad attire or funky hairstyles.

Wal-Mart jobs are coming to town. The largest U.S. employer Wal-Mart, which has stopped making monthly sales predictions, made an announcement that it will add 22,000 jobs to its U.S. workforce.

U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced it was citing Wal-Mart for inadequate crowd management following the Nov. 28, 2008 (Black Friday), death of Jdimytai Damour.

You might remember the case of Jdimytai Damour, 34, a temporary worker, who was shoved to the ground as he opened the doors to a Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, NY and trampled to death on "Black Friday," last year. The family eventually sued, but on Wednesday Wal-Mart and prosecutors inked a deal that requires the retailer to pay nearly $2 million and improve safety at its 92 New York stores, in exchange for avoiding criminal charges.

The U.S. retail discount giant Wal-Mart said that it will share close to a one billion dollar bonus with its hourly employees.

Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, has agreed to pay up to $640 million to settle dozens of lawsuits claiming the retailer cheated hourly workers out of pay.

We know that Wal-Mart is set to start selling the iPhone 3G on December 28th, but only today, Dec. 8th, did mainstream media pick up on it. More than that, however, a rumor raised last Thursday says that it might also sell a special $99 version of the phone. However, the only thing different about the phone will be the amount of memory, according to the report.

Still can't find a Nintendo Wii? It is still the hottest-selling video game console after two years, and still hard to find, at least at the standard retail price. Your last chance for the holiday season might be Wal-Mart.com, as the world's largest retailer has been stocking up, and will offer tens of thousands of the console on its website starting Monday.

The family of Jdimytai Damour, 34, a temporary worker at Wal-Mart who was trampled by a horde of frenzied shoppers on Black Friday, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against both Wal-Mart and the Valley Stream mall where the store is located.

Yesterday, at 5:03 AM in Valley Stream, NY, frenzied shoppers trampled a Wal-Mart employee Jdimytai Damour to death in an attempt to get to Black Friday bargains. Police are now hoping security footage will lead them to the guilty parties.