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Walmart opposes adding panic buttons to stores

On Friday, the New York State Senate passed legislation requiring most big retail chains, including Walmart, to put panic buttons in easy-to-access locations in their stores, or to provide staffers with wearable, or mobile-phone-activated, panic buttons. "Eight out of 10 times somebody thinks something's going on, there's actually not," Dan Bartlett, Walmart EVP. Walmart had hired a chief safety officer "to look at overall physical safety" of its store workers, Bartlett said.