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by maxerickson 2824 days ago
Let's keep in mind that Walmart has more stores and customers in China and more problems with food than the United States by orders of magnitude.

Walmart has 10x as many stores in the US relative to China. It's 5,358 in the US¹ vs 426 in China².

Does Walmart have leverage in China to force this on growers? They do in the US.

1. https://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/locations/united-sta...

2. https://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/locations/china#/chi...