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Walmart

Publicly traded companyBentonville, Arkansasstock.walmart.com

Includes Sam's Club

4thof 5 discount retailers

Near the bottom of the five largest US discount retailers on climate and lobbying, weighted by Spendwell members’ average priorities.

Better choiceWorse choice

Better ranked: TJX (1st), Costco (2nd) and Target (3rd)

Why it ranks here

Climate

environmental impact
Committed to develop and verify science-based zero SBTi targets by 2024-01-31 through the Business Ambition for 1.5°C program, but did not follow through with this commitment and was removed from SBTi's commitments list. Its disclosed emissions rose 15.7% between 2021 and 2022.

Sources: EP100, RE100, Net Zero Tracker, Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), Climate Data Utilityemissions through 2022

3/5

Lobbying

political impact
Spent an average of $6.34 million a year lobbying the US federal government, 2018 to 2022.

Source: US Senate lobbying disclosuresthrough December 2022

4/5

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