Walmart: It’s not the company, it's the compliance system


The Pulitzer-prize winning NY Times reporter David Barstow famously wrote in 2012 that Walmart was an “aggressive and creative corrupter, offering large payoffs to get what the law otherwise prohibited. It used bribes to subvert democratic governance — public votes, open debates, transparent procedures. It used bribes to circumvent regulatory safeguards that protect Mexican citizens from unsafe construction. It used bribes to outflank rivals.”