Walmart Inc. is stepping back from diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, ceasing the use of race and gender to evaluate supplier contracts, and halting demographic data collection for financing assessments. The retailer will no longer refer to DEI in communications, limit racial equity training, and reassess its support for LGBTQ events. The changes were announced after anti-DEI activist Robby Starbuck claimed he threatened Walmart with a boycott campaign ahead of Black Friday.
