As I stumbled across Rhiannon Wademan’s Blog, it echos the idea of corporate ethics as mentioned in my previous post.
First, it is recognised that Wall-Mart is in attempt to take action in its Corporate Social Responsibility by investing in green energy, solar panels in this case and also supporting green product, also known as organic product, which reduce the chemical harm or chemical deployed to the soil and air. These actions creates shared value. And as such, it should be able to improve its image and coporate reputation.
The fact that it has increased in carbon emission is alarming, which as far as I concern, the logistics of their goods from supplier to ware-house, ware-house to different stores, may have created those cumlative carbon emission. There are measures that can be applied to its supply chain in order to reduce carbon emission such as increasing inventory by transporting more, using bigger trucks for one delivery instead of having multiple deliveries by small vehicles. Or invest in a whole new fleet of trucks that gives less emissions. They may also consider getting local suppliers instead of crossing over the boarder. However, this will hugely impact one of the POD which is providing a variety of choices from different places.