Walmart pulls back on DEI efforts, removes some LGBTQ merchandise from website
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The big-box retailer, the nation's largest, joins a growing list of companies feeling the heat from conservative activists.

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.

  • StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world
    633·
    1 day ago

    Thanks for the heads up OP. Everyone reading probably knows someone who works there or has worked there themselves. Everything they do sets a weighty precedent for workers, to put it mildly.

    its former chief diversity officer role is now called the chief belonging officer

    … these petty assholes.

    I wish this news bit had at least mentioned Walmart’s White Christian fundamentalist roots. Or how they destroy local businesses and source overseas for their ‘free market,’ their anti-union activism, low wages, shit healthcare options, well-documented sexism and racism in the workplace, etc. In 2020, Walmart president and CEO Doug McMillon was an advisor to Trump. Walmart’s political spending in 2024 alone should’ve been at least a footnote. Context matters so much.