Yeah, it's very reasonable and potentially helpful to criticize the decision-makers of a company that engages in various unsavory or antisocial practices, but I've been chewed out for Walmart's buying practices when I was the person who put the shit on the shelf, not a buyer.
Heck, the main Walmart I worked at was The big local employer of 1. People who didn't have a good grasp of English yet (they started as unloaders in the back and moved into customer facing positions when their English improved) and immigrants in general, in a generally very WASP-y White area (I remember the German lady who was my department manager for a while very fondly, and there were a Lot of Black people and other non-white folks working there considering how White the area was) 2. Somewhat disabled people who weren't stuck at the local what I'm pretty sure was a sheltered workshop where they were paid under minimum wage. The cart pushers were all somewhat mentally disabled, there was a lady in a wheelchair in softlines (didn't require being able to reach very high, plus the bathrooms actually had an ADA compliant stall), and so on. Oh, and 3. They'd hire felons, for overnight stocking, and there weren't a lot of jobs in the area that would. I think I've mentioned a Black man who was a felon due to failing to pay child support for a kid who turned out to not be his kid after all; he worked as an overnight stocker.
Like, none of those folks really had many other options, at least not comparable options, and they definitely didn't have any ability to change how the international company with a bottom line bigger than a lot of countries ran itself.
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Heck, the main Walmart I worked at was The big local employer of 1. People who didn't have a good grasp of English yet (they started as unloaders in the back and moved into customer facing positions when their English improved) and immigrants in general, in a generally very WASP-y White area (I remember the German lady who was my department manager for a while very fondly, and there were a Lot of Black people and other non-white folks working there considering how White the area was) 2. Somewhat disabled people who weren't stuck at the local what I'm pretty sure was a sheltered workshop where they were paid under minimum wage. The cart pushers were all somewhat mentally disabled, there was a lady in a wheelchair in softlines (didn't require being able to reach very high, plus the bathrooms actually had an ADA compliant stall), and so on. Oh, and 3. They'd hire felons, for overnight stocking, and there weren't a lot of jobs in the area that would. I think I've mentioned a Black man who was a felon due to failing to pay child support for a kid who turned out to not be his kid after all; he worked as an overnight stocker.
Like, none of those folks really had many other options, at least not comparable options, and they definitely didn't have any ability to change how the international company with a bottom line bigger than a lot of countries ran itself.
That said, fuck the people at the top so hard.