Walmart Wants to Be Something for Everyone in a Divided America

It’s been part of the job for every chief executive officer of Walmart for the past half-century to work with US presidents, and for Doug McMillon, Donald Trump’s first tour in the White House was no different. The two got to know each other during the Covid-19 pandemic, when Walmart secured masks and gloves for the public and turned its store parking lots into testing sites. But that didn’t stop the CEO of the world’s biggest retailer, whose political credo might best be described as thou shall do nothing to alienate the customer, from speaking out on measures ...