Holding first place on the Fortune 500 list for numerous years straight is a potent, paramount, company we better know as Walmart. Walmart has brought corporate America one of the highest revenue collections since the beginning of third millennium along side its lead competitor, Exxon Mobil Corporation. However, although Walmart has been known for its affluent status in the corporate world, most people in the civilian world are familiar with its implemented motto “Always low prices”. Nonetheless, with Walmart’s “altruistic” attempts to seemingly better consumers and employers lives, they are surprisingly ranked one of the worst companies ethically. Many cases over the years have been filed in regards to Walmart’s ethical behavior; in this article, Gogoi goes into particular detail of when an employee …show more content…
Chalice Lowry states that when she first started working at Walmart as an administrative assistant in communications, she was trained with “heavy emphasis on ethics”, and was advised to report anything unethical even seen; however, a few weeks later when she found herself filing a report against a higher up executive, she immediately began looking for another job. This all began when Lowry noticed her higher up, Mona Williams, potentially having insider trading information when she noticed on paper Walmart was planning on a major stock buyback. With respect to the professional ethics Lowry was taught, she assumed that this trade was immoral. However, Walmart argued back and stated that Lowry was simply “confused”, adding that Williams did nothing wrong. Walmart’s Ethics Office even added that what Lowry read on paper in fact had “nothing to do with stock trading”. After Lowry filed the complaint with her identify disclosed (which she states she was never given the option of), Lowry asked to be