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Walmart Sustainability

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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Walmart) is an American multinational retail corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The Company is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas and has been in operation over the last 52 years. Currently, it has expanded to about 27 countries with over 11,000 stores worldwide (Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 2014d). According to 2014’s Fortune Global 500 listing, Walmart is considered as the world's largest public corporation and ranks as well as the biggest private employer in the world with over two million employees on top of being the largest retailer in the world (Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 2014a). In attaining such feats of corporate prominence, one wonders what constitutes their greatness in corporate leadership against the aspects of sustainability on their growth and development from being a small family enterprise to becoming one of the world’s greatest retailers. Based on the Framework for Implementing Corporate Sustainability, a look at how this giant company has achieved its …show more content…

Management critique J. Baskin (2009) has observed in his review of Walmart, that it made a remake in 2005 towards further growth and development based on principles of sustainability which involves some of the key framework aspects on environmental protection such as operating solely on non-traditional energy, nearly zero waste, and exclusive use of products that sustain the earth's resources and environment. In the same review, the critique mentioned on how business relationships were curtailed by Walmart in Uzbekistan due to child labor malpractice where kids were forced to pick cottons instead of being in a school during their formative years (Baskin,

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