Most of us know that the Walmart retail colossus is based in Bentonville, Arkansas, where Sam Walton first got his start.
But Bentonville isn't just home to the company's HQ, and the story of the family foundation's influence on this city is, in a word, eye-opening.
Bentonville, Arkansas, is home to Walmart’s headquarters. It’s also a town in which the Walton Family Foundation works like a parallel state, creating a kind of twenty-first-century company town.
By Stephanie Farmer
Jacobin
March 27, 2021
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