A Canton, Ohio Walmart store is under fire for organizing a food drive meant to benefit its own employees, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported on Monday.
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The store set up bins in an employee-only section of the store encouraging donations of food so that some of the store’s needier workers could enjoy a Thanksgiving meal, according to photos sent to advocacy group Organization United for Respect at Walmart.
Community members and store workers were upset by the food drive.
“That Walmart would have the audacity to ask low-wage workers to donate food to other low-wage workers — to me, it is a moral outrage,” Norma Mills, a Canton resident, told the Plain Dealer.
One Walmart employee described the food drive at ”demoralizing,” noting that Walmart is not fully addressing how little some people make working for the company.
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