Now I know why Walmart gives so much $'s to La Raza, etc. - this guy is the CEO: Eduardo Castro-Wright Executive Vice President and President and Chief Executive Officer, Wal-Mart Stores Division

We shop at Walmart every week - but I'm not shopping there anymore!

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Eduardo Castro-Wright speaks at the LULAC National Convention
Last Updated: Thursday, July 12, 2007
Today, Eduardo Castro-Wright, CEO of Wal-Mart Stores U.S., delivered the keynote speech during the Unity Luncheon at the LULAC National Convention and Exposition.


Remarks as Prepared for Eduardo Castro-Wright
CEO of Wal-Mart Stores U.S.
LULAC Annual Convention


Thank you for those warm words.

Buenas tardes, ¿Como están todos?

Muy bien, me siento muy entusiasmado de estar con ustedes, aquÃ* en Chicago.

Something you may not know about this city is that last year, Wal-Mart opened two new stores in the Chicago area.

One of them opened on the West Side of the city—on the site of an abandoned lot in a neighborhood that had been under-served for years. It was the first Wal-Mart ever built within the city limits.

And when that store opened its doors, 15,000 people had applied for a little over 400 jobs.

And the other store—right over the city line in Evergreen Park exceeded that. 25,000 people applied for 325 jobs.

I don’t know about you, but to me it highlights ….that to a lot of people in this country, Wal-Mart means opportunity. That is particularly true when we are talking about the Latino population.

And while Wal-Mart and LULAC are very different organizations, it seems to me that it is here that we share a common ground.

LULAC has helped thousands of Hispanic Americans achieve their dreams.

Through scholarships, job training, and your advocacy for better health care you provide individuals with the opportunity to build a better life.

In a lot of ways, that concept is the foundation upon which Wal-Mart was built. Sam Walton worked to bring people in rural America access to the goods they needed at the cost they could afford. And in doing so, he saved them money and gave them the opportunity to live better. Essentially he gave them a ladder to work their way to a better life.

Forty years later, that’s still our purpose. But today we see a responsibility to do even more.

We begin by looking at our customer and asking ourselves, “What do they want?â€