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.

Black Friday shamefully made a black mark on the retail store as a Walmart worker is trampled to death by shoppers who smashed through the doors this morning cause a Walmart death. Another woman miscarried in the stampede. The Walmart employee was trampled and killed in a Lon Island, New York Wal-Mart store.

Black Friday is in its full swing as holiday shoppers rush Apple Store, Staples, Walmart.com, Best buy and other online and offline retailers to get the early and best Black Friday deals on technology and other goods.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) today announced that its board of directors has elected Mike Duke, 58, to succeed Lee Scott as president and chief executive officer, effective February 1, 2009. Duke was also elected to the company’s board of directors, effective immediately.

Wal-Mart is set to join Best Buy as yet another retailer selling the iPhone, outside of the obvious Apple and AT&T locations. According to a report by BGR, they have internal communications that indicate the retail giant will begin selling the iPhone 3G on December 28th.

Well, not really that bargain-basement, but certainly a good discount. Wal-Mart has confirmed that on Wednesday, its stores will start begin selling the T-Mobile G1 phone at a discounted price ... $148.88 with a 2-year agreement (natch). This is $31.11 off the regular price, but more impressively, it's slightly more than 25% off.

Some Wal-Mart store employees are accusing the officials of the company of trying to influence their votes by warning them what could happen if a Democratic candidate becomes president.

Canadian Wal-Mart resellers see how BlueStar can help meet the mandate.

Wal-Mart isn't the first to offer some sort of exchange or extended return policy for HD-DVD losers, er, buyers, but they're being pretty generous with this offer. Then again, the world's largest retailer can afford to be - and they could sure use some good PR.

When we last visited Wal-Mart's attempt at DRM-free music, they had only managed to get EMI and Universal Music Group signed up for the DRM-free portion of their store. They've now decided to go all-MP3, but they're still stuck without Warner Music Group and Sony BMG, which are unfortunately the top two record labels.

In an address to the Council of Teaching Hospitals in New Orleans, Wal-Mart's senior vice president and president of health and wellness, Dr. John Agwunobi will confirm a major milestone for the company's $4 prescription program. Since its launch in September 2006, the program walmart.com/pharmacy has now saved Americans more than $1 billion ($1,032,573,012.61 as of March 10, 2008).