Case Study: Environmental Awareness

In the case of “Environmental Awareness” Walmart has really tried to promote social responsibility in their companies, focusing on promoting environmental cleaning and care of the land air and water.
Are the benefits of its more recent corporate citizenship programs offset by the company´s detrimental impact on merchants? We think so, because the company has millions of supporters, Walmart draws 100 million customers every week. Many consider the company to be socially responsible in addition to being a provider of thousands of jobs, low prices, and high value and service. Walmart has numerous corporate citizenship initiatives at the local and national levels.
4. Walmart continues to find severe resistance to its expansion into New England

This includes the threat of putting other merchants out of business, the creation of urban sprawl, and the traffic congestion created when the company decides to locate in a particular site. In short, the negative and positive impacts on communities have to be weighed against each other.
Wal-Mart is not paying a living wage.

5. What is your assessment of competitors secretly hiring consulting firms to block Walmart´s entry into new communities? Is this an ethical practice? Is this a fair practice with respect to competitor stakeholders? We think this point can be examined from two perspectives before qualify as ethical or not. From the point of view of the company Walmart it is unethical to be carried out collecting signatures against the company and much less secretly, there must be a certain freedom of information. But the situation is difficult for traders of communities where Walmart is to be installed, because it must be hard to know that you can´t do anything to keep your business against from a company on such a scale as Walmart. It is not an ethical practice regarding suppliers and customers because they doesn´t have all the information about it. Furthermore, customers are hardest affected if Wallmart isn´t installed in their communities because they lose the opportunity to buy low

Additionally, the company should consider only building a store in “revitalizing cities and older towns… instead of constantly creating new townships and communities that are less populated” to minimize urban sprawl and traffic congestion (Ways to Reduce Urban Sprawl). Walmart should also make the decision to raise the minimum wage while providing better benefits for employees and thus retain employees and diminish the formation of activists. They have to know the good things they are doing (Buy America, Environmental Awareness) as well as showcasing the positive employee opportunities. By neglecting to be more proactive in these areas Wal-Mart is jeopardizing the success they have built over Sam Walton’s