Was there ever a history of racism at Walmart?
Not the “Planet of the Apes” thing (probably a single idiot hacker), or other single instances (individual shoppers being profiled by individual clerks or managers) which is what I’m finding when I Google the two terms. More systemic discrimination. My friend is from the Midwest, and says she “misses Walmart” because they’ve been kept out of a lot of the Philadelphia suburbs (thank God). She says she doesn’t “feel sorry for those mom and pop stores, because they wouldn’t have hired me 20 years ago, and they wouldn’t have let me in their store 30 years ago.” (she’s African-American) She admits she isn’t all that informed about Walmart’s appalling treatment of its workers and other policies. And frankly, none of that really matters if she can “save $.0.89 on toilet paper.” About the only thing that might motivate her to look a little harder at Walmart would be if they had a history of racism.
