Summary
Walmart is scaling back its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts amid conservative backlash and changing cultural pressures.
The company removed LGBTQ-themed items, stopped sharing data with advocacy groups, and phased out supplier diversity programs and its Center for Racial Equity, created in 2020.
Walmart also rebranded its diversity roles, though it will continue funding events like Pride parades under stricter guidelines.
Activists opposing DEI policies, like Robby Starbuck, have praised these changes.
If I weren’t already not shopping at Walmart, I would be excited to begin not shopping at Walmart in response to this. Can’t win 'em all.
The Walmarts near me pushed all the local businesses out like 2 or 3 decades ago, but now they are shutting some of the stores down… so now the closest Walmart is like an hour away.
Luckily some of the business is returning, but for every useful business that opens, another vape shop opens.