The Bane of Walmart Managers: 'NIL Picks' (Newser Deep Dive)

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April 27, 2024     The Bane of Walmart Managers: 'NIL Picks' Walmart managers typically pull in six figures—even up to $400,000 if the store is big enough—and the Wall Street Journal spent a day with one such manager to get a sense of the job. Nichole Hart runs the Supercenter in Bellmead, Texas, and made about $240,000 last year—a salary of $119,000, plus a $120,000 bonus. Keep reading   For the Serengeti's Maasai, a Bitter Irony Unfolds On the surface, the news might please those with a conservationist bent—Tanzania setting aside more and more land for preservation. Look a little closer and what emerges is the brutal toll being exacted on the Maasai—pastoralists who are "among the lightest-living people on the planet"—in the name of said conservation, writes Stephanie McCrummen in the Atlantic. Keep reading   From our sponsors Gutter Guards in Your City Are Cheaper Than You Think Stop worrying about clogs and leaks in your gutters. KEEP READING   NM City Illustrates Problems of America's Drinking Water Big headlines occasionally surface about serious problems with drinking water in American cities, as with Flint, Michigan, and Jackson, Mississippi. But the Washington Post reports that the issue may be more widespread than is realized five decades after the passage of the Safe Drinking Water Act. Keep reading   He Wanted to 'Forget' His Life, Until He Got a Diagnosis John Paul Scotto has become obsessed with many things—among them internet poker, drinking, and movies—and one of those movies was Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Like Jim Carrey's character in the film, there was a time when Scotto wanted to forget things—in his case, as he writes in an expansive essay at Longreads, his "whole life." Keep reading   From the Archives The Heist Was Worth Millions—in Books The crime was so unusual—so acrobatic—that police in London checked to see if the circus had been in town. That turned out to be a dead end, writes Marc Wortman in a lengthy Vanity Fair piece about the 2017 heist. Keep reading   From Our Sponsors Manage your subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe from Newser emails  |  Privacy Policy We'd love to hear from you. Send us a note at feedback@newser.com. Read our stories on MSN. Newser, LLC  |  1395 Brickell Avenue  |  Suite 800  |  Miami, Florida  |  33131 © 2024 Newser, LLC. All rights reserved