Walmart Seeking Donations for its Employees

Charitable measure is criticized by those who maintain the retailer should pay its workers higher wages.

November 20, 2013

BENTONVILLE, AR – Walmart stores have begun holding food drives to benefit needy employees, Time reports.

A Canton, Ohio, Walmart has food drive boxes that are placed in an employee-only area, soliciting food donations from fellow employees to assist co-workers. The charitable gesture has communities questioning the wages the company pays its staff.

“That Walmart would have the audacity to ask low-wage workers to donate food to other low-wage workers — to me, it is a moral outrage,” one Walmart shopper told the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

A Walmart spokesperson defended the food drive as an example of employees looking out for each other.

“This store has been doing this for several years and is for associated that have faced an extreme hardship recently,” said spokesperson Kory Lundberg.

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