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Walmart To Give 740,000 U.S. Store Associates Free Samsung Smartphone BENTONVILLE (dpa-AFX) - Walmart has unveiled Me@Walmart, a new app built in-house by Walmart Global Tech for U.S. store associates that provides a destination filled with new features to simplify daily tasks, serve customers and plan for life outside of work. By the end of the year, Walmart plans to offer more than 740,000 associates a new Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro smartphone, case and protection plan to use - free of charge....

As part of the Me@Walmart app rollout, Walmart will offer 740,000 workers a new Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro smartphone for free.

June 3, 2021 By Drew Holler, Senior Vice President, Walmart U.S. People Operations, and Kellie Romack, Vice President, Product and Associate Experience A great customer... | June 3, 2021

Ask Sam - Grass Rings I know, I know, I know… these look like crop circles. But if your brain went straight to aliens (like Rick Ganley’s did) I’m gonna tell you right at the top that you’re reaching for the wrong mythical explanation: it’s not aliens ... it’s fairies.  “These rings have been appearing in lawns and pastures for millennia,” explains Peter Landschoot, an extension specialist at Penn State University. “So the lore is that there were fairies dancing around and th...

Sara Plourde Chris Martin and Dave Anderson from Something Wild join Sam Evans-Brown for a special edition of Ask Sam A version of this episode was originally published in 2017. "I do a bit of hiking up in the highlands where I live, and I noticed that wombats actually poo in cubes, so I did a bit of research and it said it stops it from rolling down hill. I was wondering if that would be beneficial, or not, to them?" - Matt, Australia Oh, Matt... Matt, Matt, Matt. You do know this show is ba...

Read later Audio version Summary: Walmart Global CTO Suresh Kumar has a long tech shopping list to get through as the worlds largest retailers ups its transformation efforts. (Walmart) The answer, he said, was tech and its successful application and exploitation. The potential there is such that makes Walmart’s situation more optimistic as it looks beyond COVID, he argued:  The thing thats different is technology. The Internet is different. Digital is different. T...

Image by Jamie Johannsen from Pixabay This time on the show its another edition of Ask Sam, where Sam answers listener questions about the natural world. This time, questions about hugging trees, bumpy roads, objects stuck on power lines, and epic hummingbird battles. Plus, from our semi-regular series 10X10, we head under the ice of a frozen lake. In this piece, we give the down low on bizarre properties of water, fish that thrive in a capped-off environment, and long beards of algae clingin...

Justine Paradis Laura Waterman holds a handmade plaque that she and her husband Guy awarded to Mad Dog, the maple tree on their homestead with the highest maple sap production. Credit Justine Paradis In New England, the Waterman name is like mountain royalty. But beyond a tight circle of outdoors-people, theyre not a household name.  In February 2020, Sam Evans-Brown visited Laura Waterman, one of the most influential voices in American wilderness philosophy, for a conversation about writing...

Saturation there already. i have a map up of the track of the storm. sam is saying, look, we know what happened here in these areas along the coast, especially with the continental shelf and the rapid buildup of strength. all of these areas, we dont really know yet how people were affected there. theyre rural. theyre remote. were told a lot of people didnt evacuate. thats the primary concern for sam and all the experts. now you have this track. its coming sblo -- into place thats already got hit...

Wilmington is in such rough shape. it is in rough shape. the kids just got back to school. now they have saturation where the ground cant absorb any water. like sam was saying, and all these storm winds. look what were watching. hurricane here, right? tropical storm all here. theyre not ready for it. they cant handle it given what theyve already dealt with. sam, thank you for the perspective. do me a favor, stick around so we can forecast whats to come and what we need to watch out for. thank ...