Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Retail giant Walmart Inc. will make nationwide changes in how it deploys employees with disabilities, in order to settle a lawsuit involving a Bangor woman.

Walmart will add 50 full-time employees at its warehouse in Lewiston. The company will hold a job fair on Saturday to start the recruiting process.

Today the retail market is very much driven by the speed, reliability and ease of buying virtually anything from Amazon and its convenient membership arm, Amazon Prime.

Walmart Inc. violated federal law by failing to reassign a long-term employee after she became disabled while working at one of its stores in Augusta, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges in a lawsuit filed last week.

The Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s regional general manager is visiting all 74 stores in his coverage area of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and eastern Massachusetts to assess whether stores need to be upgraded, particularly in face of increased competition from online shopping.

Wayfair, the online furniture retailer that promised to create nearly 1,000 jobs in Maine, has been rumored as a takeover target.