Researched Sep 24, 2026
Walmart
Walmart states that it pursues shared value for its business and stakeholders, supports communities, and maintains global ethics, human-rights, privacy, and responsible-technology programs. It also identifies emissions reduction, resource regeneration, and waste reduction as sustainability priorities.
Public evidence is more than 30 days old.
Closest models
4-way tie
81-87% on 8 of 12 dimensions
- Mistral Large 387%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash86%
- GPT-5.6 Terra84%
- Kimi K381%
These models are too close to separate: each is within three points of the leader, would lead if one dimension were left out, or has a repetition envelope that overlaps the leader's. For scale, a model answering 50 on every one of these dimensions would score 72%.
Values map
Walmart and Mistral Large 3
Solid company lines join verified positions. Dashed sections cross unknown axes without assigning a value.
Distribution
Purpose
Worker voice
Equality
Speech
Privacy
Regulation
Global outlook
Social change
Environment
Tech pace
AI autonomy
A higher position means closer to the second endpoint. It does not mean better. The Concord Index measures agreement, not quality or safety.
The score covers 8 of 12 dimensions. The others have no verified public position and are not measured.
Most in sync
Privacy
Worth a closer look
Tech pace
75% match. Inspect the questions and evidence below.
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Evidence summary.
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Distribution
Market allocation ↔ Redistribution
How pay and windfalls are shared, by individual contribution and market benchmarks or more evenly.
Not verified
No company position
No literal excerpt establishes a supplied compensation, ownership, pay-equity, or executive-pay anchor.
Purpose
Shareholder returns ↔ Stakeholder welfare
Whether major decisions weigh financial return alone or also employees, customers, communities and the environment.
75%
Company position toward stakeholder welfare
Walmart frames enterprise strategy around creating value for business and stakeholders and commits to serving communities.
““Shared value – addressing societal issues in ways that create value for our business and stakeholders – lies at the heart of Walmart’s enterprise strategy and our approach to ESG issues.””
Purpose
Worker voice
Management discretion ↔ Employee influence
Who has the final say on working conditions and staffing, management or employees through channels, bargaining and committees.
Not verified
No company position
Reporting and feedback channels are documented, but the excerpts do not establish anti-retaliation protection outside management, collective bargaining, or a supplied management-authority anchor.
Equality
Uniform treatment ↔ Targeted measures
Whether hiring, promotion and development use one standard for everyone or include measures reserved for particular groups.
Not verified
No company position
The record describes belonging and equitable opportunities but does not establish a supplied equal-opportunity, uniform-standard, targeted-representation, or targeted-development anchor.
Speech
Broad expression ↔ Protective moderation
Whether workplace and platform speech is left to individuals or moderated to remove harassment and abuse.
75%
Company position toward protective moderation
Walmart documents programs addressing discrimination and harassment through policies and controls.
““Programs address discrimination and harassment, anti-corruption, antitrust, workplace safety, food safety and product safety through policies, training, monitoring and risk-based controls.””
Ethics and Compliance
Privacy
Individual privacy ↔ Collective oversight
Whether personal data is minimized and deleted, or kept and disclosed for security and legal investigations.
25%
Company position toward collective oversight
Walmart provides eligible individuals access, correction, deletion, and opt-out rights.
““Based on your residency, you may be able to request to: Access your personal information. … Correct your personal information. Delete your personal information. … Opt Out of the Processing of Your Personal Information for Purposes of Targeted Advertising. Opt Out of the Sale or Sharing of Your Personal Information.””
Walmart Customer Privacy Notice (Online and In-Store)
Regulation
Voluntary standards ↔ Public regulation
Whether safety and compliance rest on voluntary standards and self-assessment or on public rules and independent verification.
100%
Company position toward public regulation
Walmart states that it advocates for laws, regulations, and enforcement practices protecting human rights.
““We engage with governments to advocate for laws, regulations, and enforcement practices that support the protection of human rights.””
Human Rights
Global outlook
Local priority ↔ International openness
Whether a company tailors to and favors its home or local context, or applies one standard and hires and invests across borders.
75%
Company position toward international openness
Walmart documents a workforce distributed across multiple countries.
““People employed, worldwide~ 2.1 millionPeople employed, U.S.~ 1.6 millionPeople employed, outside U.S.~ 0.5 million Global Workforce Distribution by Country Global Workforce Distribution by Country MetricFY2026Africa1.4%Canada4.7%Central America1.7%Chile1.8%China3.1%India2.3%Mexico9.2%United States75.4%””
Belonging
Social change
Continuity ↔ Experimentation
How readily existing policies, processes and structures are replaced when evidence or alternatives appear.
75%
Company position toward experimentation
Walmart documents piloting solutions and a continuous-improvement compliance process.
““To identify bagging options that are convenient and advance reusability, we joined the Beyond the Bag Consortium in 2020 along with several other retailers, piloting multiple solutions and gathering critical insights.””
Bag Better
““Walmart maintains a risk-based global ethics and compliance program aligned to DOJ guidance, supported by leadership oversight, market governance, risk assessments, policies, training, monitoring, confidential reporting, investigations, and continuous improvement.””
Ethics and Compliance
Environment
Near-term growth ↔ Ecological restraint
Whether investment goes to near-term growth and cost, or to environmental commitments beyond the law.
75%
Company position toward ecological restraint
Walmart identifies emissions, natural-resource, and waste reduction as priorities.
““Our priorities include reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, regenerating natural resources, reducing product and packaging waste, and supporting people who work in supply chains through responsible sourcing and the creation of inclusive economic opportunity.””
Purpose
Tech pace
Rapid advancement ↔ Precaution
Whether technology ships quickly with monitoring, or waits for risk review proportionate to its impact.
75%
Company position toward precaution
Walmart describes risk evaluation for higher-impact AI, pre-deployment testing, and secure technology development.
““Our practices include maintaining a list of approved internal AI tools, performing compliance reviews, evaluating higher-impact AI systems for potential risks to individuals, and monitoring evolving legal and regulatory requirements.””
Digital Trust
““Excellence: We seek to develop and use technology that is high-quality, secure, reliable, and continuously improving, enabling responsible innovation across our business.””
Digital Trust
““Assessing and testing systems before deployment and monitoring performance over time Applying oversight proportionate to the risks and intended uses of the technology.””
Digital Trust
AI autonomy
Delegated autonomy ↔ Human authority
Whether AI systems may act and decide on their own, or a human keeps oversight and the final say.
Not verified
No company position
The record establishes AI oversight but not human appeal, final approval, named human accountability, or delegated automated authority under a supplied anchor.
Protocol values-2026-09-v8. Panel representative-2026-09-v11. Report version 14ab54b6-9f91-49c7-bf97-47b91ea5ec9c.