We're Not Shopping at Walmart This Holiday Season & Neither Should You
Walmart's Latest DEI Rollback & 6 Takeaways for Black Consumers
This is a BIG one.
The world’s largest retailer just completely gutted DEI, and it is now just… “BELONGING.” And you know what that means for us?
Black people don’t belong at Walmart.
Here are 6 things to know about the cuts and 4 ways to take action:
Supplier Diversity programs help ensure Minority/Women-owned Business Enterprises (MWBEs) have a better chance at entering corporate supply chains. With this being gutted, our access will greatly be impacted.
Not sure how Belonging works, if the policies and initiatives that lead to it are being cut. Racial Equity training is a foundation for understanding.
The Math is Not Mathin’
We’ll probably still be hired for those “Black Jobs” Trump talked about — you know, the cashiers, janitors, greeters. But those corporate jobs? Those General Manager jobs? Those good paying jobs?!?! It might be a bit of a struggle.
A Cuban-American man with a computer and 700K followers is doing this. Walmart, Ford, John Deere, Lowe’s… He’s applying pressure and it is working.
WE HAVE TO PULL TOGETHER, Y’ALL!
There’s more coming, for sure. It’s just about who and what. We truly hope that some of the more progressive companies we are seeing hang in there (Pepsi, Costco, Nike, JPMorgan Chase).
Major corporations report out yearly, so we will not know the true impact of what is happening for at least another 1-2 years. Our expectation is that a lot of data will be stripped from annual and Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) reports, leaving us truly unclear about the real damage being done.
WE MUST TAKE ACTION!
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