Walmart distances itself from DEI

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dei-rollback-reaches-walmart-as-backlash-mounts-this-is-the-biggest-win-yet-170752846.html

DEI rollback reaches Walmart as backlash mounts: 'This is the biggest win yet'

Walmart (WMT) is scaling back some of its diversity initiatives, becoming one of the most prominent companies yet to make such an about-face as activist pressure mounts.

The world's largest retail chain told Yahoo Finance that it would cease using the acronym DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), no longer participate in a corporate equality rating system created by the Human Rights Campaign and end its $100 million Center for Racial Equity that was scheduled to sunset in 2025.

The company will also remove from its available merchandise all sexually inappropriate and transgender products marketed to children, review its supplier diversity program to ensure that no preferences are made based on race, and stop using the term "LatinX" in official communications to refer to people of Latin American cultural or ethnic identities.

Are they doing this because DEI is a net positive to their bottom line?   Of course it is not a net positive or they would continue with DEI. 

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https://justthenews.com/accountability/cancel-culture/list-businesses-who-have-backed-diversity-policies

Here is a list of the companies that have since revised, or canceled their DEI policies, or reduced staffing for their programs:

Boeing

CNN

DoorDash

Ford

Google

Harley-Davidson

John Deere

Tractor Supply Co.

Jack Daniels' owner Brown Forman

Lowe's

Lyft

Microsoft

Snapchat 

Tesla

Wayfair

Walmart

Zoom

I added the companies in Blue.   The list above was published in Aug 2024 so there have been additions since then. 

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