I my opinion this is one shitty corporation...

[Incitatus]

36. Yes, and it's not exactly all coming from their profits.

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to significantly ramp up its donations to the nation's food banks to total $2 billion over the next five years, the retail giant said Wednesday.......

But the bulk of the donations will consist of more than 1.1 billion pounds of food that doesn't sell or can't be sold because it's close to expiration dates, for example. About half will be fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy and meat – items that food banks say they're seeing more demand for.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/12/walmart-to-invest-2-billi_n_573402.html

This isn't a program they are doing out of kindness and altruism, their business practices and employee treatment speak to those traits.

It's good that the needy will get some assistance, but I see this as a PR move to make them appear less evil despite the harm they do.

Maybe they are also getting a tax deduction for donating the food that they were going to have to throw away. idk