Walmart

===Crime problems===
According to an August 2016 report by ''[[Bloomberg Businessweek]]'', aggressive cost-cutting decisions that began in 2000 when Lee Scott took over as CEO of the company led to a significant increase in crime in stores across the United States. These included the removal of the store's famed greeters, who are in part seen as a theft deterrent at exits, the replacement of many cashiers with self-checkout stations, and the addition of stores at a rate that exceeded the hiring of new employees, which led to a 19% increase in space per employee from a decade previous. While these decisions succeeded in increasing profits 23% in the decade that followed, they also led to an increase in both theft and violent crime.<ref name=":1"/><ref name="Crowley"/>

In 2015, under CEO [[Doug McMillon]], Walmart began a company-wide campaign to reduce crime that included spot-checking receipts at exits, stationing employees at self-checkout areas, eye-level security cameras in high-theft areas, use of data analytics to detect credit fraud, hiring off-duty police and private security officers, and reducing calls to police with a program by which first-time offenders caught stealing merchandise below a certain value can avoid arrest if they agree to go through a theft-prevention program.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |url = https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/ |title = Walmart's Out-of-Control Crime Problem is Driving Police Crazy |last = Pettypiece |first = Shannon |magazine = Bloomberg Businessweek |date = August 17, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160818000539/https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/ |archive-date = August 18, 2016}}</ref>

Law enforcement agencies across the United States have noted a burden on resources created by a disproportionate number of calls from Walmart. Experts have criticized the retailer for shifting its security burden onto the taxpayers.<ref name="Crowley"/> Across three Florida counties, approximately 9,000 police calls were logged to 53 Walmart stores but resulted in only a few hundred arrests.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2016/public-safety/walmart-police/|title=Tampa Bay Walmarts get thousands of police calls leaving taxpayers to pay the bill.|access-date=February 12, 2018|archive-date=February 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212201826/http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2016/public-safety/walmart-police/|url-status=live}}</ref> In [[Granite Falls, North Carolina]], 92% of [[larceny]] calls to local police were from the Walmart store.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.wsoctv.com/news/9-investigates/walmart-has-become-crime-magnet-in-many-north-carolina-cities/695879615|title=Walmart has become crime magnet in many North Carolina cities|last=Faherty|first=Dave|date=February 9, 2018|publisher=WSOC|access-date=February 12, 2018|archive-date=February 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211082801/http://www.wsoctv.com/news/9-investigates/walmart-has-become-crime-magnet-in-many-north-carolina-cities/695879615|url-status=live}}</ref> The trend is similar in rural, suburban, and urban areas. Police are called to Walmart stores 3 to 4 times as much as similar retailers such as Target.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/news/crime-and-courts/4303214-analysis-police-called-disproportionately-walmart-stores|title=Analysis: Police called disproportionately to Walmart stores|access-date=February 12, 2018|archive-date=February 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180213021643/http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/news/crime-and-courts/4303214-analysis-police-called-disproportionately-walmart-stores|url-status=dead}}</ref> Experts say the chain and its razor-thin profit margins rely heavily on police to protect its bottom line. Walmart Supercenters top the list of those most visited by police.<ref name=":2"/>

In addition to hundreds of thousands of petty crimes, more than 200 violent crimes, including attempted kidnappings, stabbings, shootings, and murders occurred at the 4,500 Walmarts in the U.S. in 2016.<ref name=":1"/> In 2019, 23 people were killed in a [[2019 El Paso shooting|mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas]].<ref name="Curbs"/><ref name="NYT23"/>

On June 27, 2020, a shooting occurred at a Walmart distribution center in [[Red Bluff, California]], United States. One employee was killed and the shooter was killed by officers.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Gross|first1=Jenny|last2=Fazio|first2=Marie|date=June 27, 2020|title=2 Dead in Shooting at Walmart Distribution Center in California, Official Says|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/us/walmart-shooting-red-bluff-california.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628003004/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/us/walmart-shooting-red-bluff-california.html |archive-date=June 28, 2020 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=June 28, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Two dead, four injured in Walmart distribution center shooting|date=June 28, 2020|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-dead-four-injured-walmart-distribution-center-shooting-n1232348|access-date=June 28, 2020|publisher=NBC News|archive-date=December 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201217234937/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-dead-four-injured-walmart-distribution-center-shooting-n1232348|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=D'Angelo |first=Bob |title=2 killed, 4 injured in shooting at Walmart distribution center in California|url=https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/least-3-injured-shooting-walmart-california/GXCU5YELERH3NIHV7YLS73IS7Y/|access-date=June 28, 2020|publisher=KIRO|archive-date=September 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919031831/https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/least-3-injured-shooting-walmart-california/GXCU5YELERH3NIHV7YLS73IS7Y/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=June 27, 2020|title=2 Dead In Shooting At Walmart Distribution Center In Red Bluff, Authorities Say|url=https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/06/27/reports-of-active-shooter-at-walmart-distribution-center-in-red-bluff/|access-date=June 28, 2020|archive-date=October 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002133901/https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/06/27/reports-of-active-shooter-at-walmart-distribution-center-in-red-bluff/|url-status=live}}</ref>