The retailer employs 1.6 million people and will become the largest company in the United States to eliminate its DEI programs. Walmart will no longer refer to a prominent LGBT rights index to help with hiring decisions, it will stop prioritizing suppliers based on diversity, and it won’t continue to use the phrase “DEI.”
“What we’re trying to do is ensure that every customer, every associate feels welcome here to shop and to feel like they belong,” Walmart U.S. President and CEO John Furner said on CBS Mornings Tuesday.
Employees at Walmart weren’t ever subject to racial quotas, and the retailer will continue to avoid them.
Besides altering its hiring and procurement practices, the company is dissolving ties with outside groups as well. It will not renew a five-year commitment to an equity racial center that was established at the height of the Black…
