Sustainable Audit: Walmart

SUSTAINABLE AUDIT
ASSIGNMENT
PART 1: HAND-IN RESEARCH

Introduction and description of the
company
 Walmart is an American multinational retail
chain corporation.
 It operates a chain of grocery stores,
hypermarkets, discount departmental stores,
Sam’s club retail warehouses.
 They have about 11348 stores in 27 countries
and 55 different names. It is operating in
countries like USA, Canada, UK, Brazil, Japan,
India, Argentina etc (Muñoz, Kenny & Stecher,
2018).
 They have generated a revenue of $ 514.419
billion in 2019.
 Their supplier chains is based globally and use
the latest technology to monitor the supply of
goods.

Analysis of their strategic niche and
Brief history of its foundation
 Walmart has become the household name in many countries as they
offer a huge variety of products under the same roof.
 The discount policy and cheap stores are the main cause of
attraction.
 It’s highly efficient supply chain gives them competitive advantage
over others.
 Sam Walton is the founder of the world’s largest retail chain Walmart.
 Ben Franklin was the first store he bought. The next store he bought
was Eagle departmental store.
 The first Walmart store was opened in 2nd July 1962 (Muñoz, Kenny &
Stecher, 2018).
 With consistency and customer support it grew to 800 stores in 1985.