The overarching theme of Walmart's ongoing sustainability initiatives is that when the company sets goals, it doesn't aim for half-measures. In a spate of new goals announced this morning at a Global Sustainability Milestone Meeting in Bentonville, Walmart aims to overhaul the global food supply chain.
Walmart today announced a series of five-year goals addressing everything from farm to table, focusing especially on farming and the food supply chain.
"When we think about our sustainability goals up to this point, it's not an area we have addressed adequately," CEO Mike Duke explained this morning, "but only four of our 39 sustainability goals address food. But that's changing, today."
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