How does a company like Walmart. A company that did nearly $650 billion in business in 2024. Get the nerve to ask you to make a charitable donation at checkout?
Who do these corporations think they are, expecting their customers to bankroll their corporate citizenship campaigns?
To put it in perspective, Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa. Has a GDP of roughly $520 billion. There is not a single country on the African continent that comes within $100 billion of what Walmart earns. And yet, somehow, Walmart still can’t bring itself to fund its own charitable causes.
Walmart wants to give to charity. It really does. It just doesn’t want to do it with its money, only with yours.
The level of corporate arrogance is astonishing. If a person on the street asked you for money so they could go donate it to charity themselves, you’d tell them to get lost. But when a multinational corporation does it at the till, we’re supposed to nod along like it’s normal.
It isn’t generosity.
It’s outsourcing virtue and then taking credit for it.
