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The retailer said it will cultivate American-made products through reshoring, expanding orders with existing suppliers and placing orders with new suppliers.
In addition to the job growth, the initiative will have a positive impact on the environment, with 100 million tons of CO2 emissions avoided by sourcing products in closer proximity to consumers.
Walmart is launching American Lighthouses to unite key stakeholders in specific regions of the country to identify and overcome top-down barriers to U.S. production. The Lighthouses will bring together participants from the supplier community, including manufacturers and NGOs, leaders from academia, government and local economic development groups.
By joining together key regions and various stakeholders, Walmart believes it can improve supply chain efficiency, which will support the goal of bringing back U.S. manufacturing in a sustainable, long-term way.
“U.S. manufacturing really matters,” Furner said. “It matters to our suppliers, to entrepreneurs and to the environment. It matters to our customers with more than 85% of them saying that it’s important for us to carry products made or assembled in the U.S. Most of all, because of the jobs it brings, it matters to American communities and the people who live in them.”