Walmart is set to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion,(DEI) policies nationwide, according to conservative activist Robby Starbuck, who said the company changed direction after talks last week.
“MASSIVE news: Walmart is ending their woke policies. I can now exclusively tell you what’s changing and how it happened,” Starbuck wrote Monday on the social platform X.
Last week I told execs at @Walmart that I was doing a story on wokeness there. Instead we had productive conversations to find solutions,” he added.
Starbuck said the company will discontinue the use of the terms DEI and “LatinX” while discontinuing training through the Racial Equity Institute and terminating its Racial Equity Center, which was established in 2020 as a special five-year initiative.
In regards to supplier diversity, the corporation has committed to reevaluating its programs to ensure they do not provide preferential treatment and benefits to suppliers based on diversity, according to the activist.
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