The Time Walmart Failed Its Customers
In January 2022 the unvaccinated were barred from big box stores in Quebec.
First, let me say this: I shop at Walmart. This past weekend, on behalf of an elderly relative, I purchased the exact same, brand name, regular-priced item (a small tub of petroleum jelly/Vaseline) in two stores. At Walmart, the price was $3.47. At Shoppers Drug Mart it was $5.29. That’s a huge difference.
Multinational corporations exist to make money. Their over-arching principle is self-interest. Which means corporations are not moral leaders. They have no business preaching to any of us. I don’t want to be nagged by a corporation about the climate or the environment. I don’t need rainbow stickers declaring that ‘everyone is welcome’ on the front door of retail outlets (if that wasn’t the case prior to the stickers going up, those businesses were breaking the law).
As I observe in the article below, written 18 months ago, Walmart claims to treat its customers with “dignity, compassion and respect.” But the minute Quebec barred the unvaccinated from shopping in its stores, Walmart caved.
There was no pushback. There were no press conferences championing dignity and respect. There was no court fight. When corporations talk about their high moral values, it’s just talk. The minute politicians tell them to, they’ll behave abominably.
Click below to read that story:
Walmart's Plexiglass Cages
The same week the Freedom Convoy was making its way across Canada, unvaccinated individuals in Quebec were barred from entering big box stores such as Walmart and Costco. One quarter of our nation’s population resides in that province, and a significant percent…
