Syeed Salvant
April 22, 2022
Ethics and Social responsibility
Walmart is one of the largest companies on the planet, no matter where you are in America you will be able to find a Walmart. Walmart has 4,742 stores in the United States and 10,593 stores across the world which makes them a retail giant, usually, when it comes to retail giants they’re wasteful with energy and do not focus on the conservation of energy and being socially responsible but Walmart continues to take steps in the right direction and separate themselves from the rest of the pack which is why they have been successful since the 1960s. Walmart has partnered with Bloom Energy and their goal is to make clean energy more accessible and affordable for the whole planet so Walmart associating with them was a great move. A company that employs over two million people should always look for ways to pursue sustainable business practices and Walmart is one of the best examples in the world of this, they want to become one hundred percent supplied by renewable energy and they cover the roofs of many of their retail stores in solar panels. All of the energy that they save in total using solar energy makes them the biggest commercial solar generator in the world.
Although Walmart is outstanding when it comes to saving energy and being more efficient with their energy use there are other aspects of corporate social responsibility and pursuing sustainable business practices they can be better at such as raising the wages of their workers and offering better hours to workers outside of the united states. I recommend that they create a workers union so that they are held accountable when it comes to their mistakes and the company can continue to evolve and improve over time. There isn’t much Walmart needs to urgently improve on but when workers are treated fairly and paid well a huge company like Walmart will do nothing but continue to outperform its competition.
https://www.grin.com/document/337138
https://www.electricchoice.com/blog/100-energy-efficient-companies/
Hi Syeed. I think you wrote a very well detailed response and after reading your thoughts, I don’t think I really thought about Walmart in the sense you explained it. I was unaware of the fact that Walmart was partnered with Bloom Energy which “makes clean energy more accessible.” However, it does turn to be for a great cause because we see how successful the business runs, considering their low prices of products and the constant purchases being made from the consumers.