If you were the CEO of Wal-mart, what would you do?

Assuming that this happened to me overnight, I would allow business as usual but stop expansions until I had reworked the "big box that sucks life out of a community" model into something far green-er, far more alternative-energy conscious, far more aligned with blending into and supporting a community. 

I would consult with Walmart's current critics to better understand what their needs are in the situation. I would also consult with the green and organic business folks willing to talk to me.

I would also review the HR practices and make it clear that we are all working from integrity now and that we have a culture of respect, including respect for diversity. The concept of namaste would be explained clearly to all employees. The bizarre overtime practices and extremely low wages would go.

Initially, all the centers would become teaching centers of "eco-topian" lifestyle.
There would definitely be an array of recycling bins in the parking lots.

Y'know how Home Depot and Lowe's do all that free do-it-yourself class stuff? Well, for example, the new Wal-marts would carry full lines of organic gardening supplies and teach people about xeri-scaping and using local native herbs and other plants for their landscaping to discourage the bizarre developer culture of non-functional lawns and no trees. 

Wal-mart is where it is because of its buying power and carefully picked set of products. Walmart has a very sophisticated planning area for their distribution process. There's a lot of Wal-mart that is efficient and good from a business point of view. The people that shop there now aren't particularly socially aware for the most part, they just want something cheap that fills a need. 

So the slow realignment would keep the good bones of the beast, but slowly add  fair-trade, non-sweatshop, non-GMO, etc. goods to its product lines through advertising to raise community consciousness about the true costs of goods and the need for living wages. Part of the difficulty places like Whole Foods and Wal-mart face right now is that the production end is generally smaller and less organized for organics and green things. My Wal-mart would work to encourage more co-ops and trade associations in order to grow those businesses to where supply-lines would be more predictable for distribution centers.
I also would encourage/support local production of foods and goods, so that there'd be less reliance on the oil-culture and less support for stupid corporate GMO agriculture that focuses on blemish-free taste-less food that is carted halfway across the world, when it can be grown non-GMO organically and locally.
There is a need to be in harmony with the land whereever you live and winter strawberries are only harmonious in the Southern hemisphere. Winter strawberry jam is the Northern hemisphere option.

This is an educational thing. But not everyone gets it. For everyone of us who "gets it"
now, there are (my guess) at least 4 others who don't. For example, there's the gotta have it now culture guy- doesn't care about what time of year it is-- he's willing to pay the price for what he wants - no matter what it's doing to environment. There's the (neo?)traditional - always done it this way gal whose mom taught her to use processed food and thinks there's no real difference between an organic or conventional carrot-- she's not going to spend more on slow food that she has to cook from scratch. There's people who say the sweatshops are good because they employ people who'd otherwise go hungry. There's people so ungrounded in their daily life that they wouldn't know harmony with the land from a nuclear land-fill .The critical mass to appreciate or support a fully green organic fair-trade alternative energy,etc. Walmart is not there yet.  

So my harmonization of Walmart would procede slowly with a lot of education and community out-reach. As the community supports the changes, the goods distributed would match the consciousness, the level of harmonization. I think it will be slow-going at first, but I know there's momentum out there for changes like these.  The challenge will be to keep the right pace in order to keep turning a profit.

Oh yeah,one more thing.
 I would do my best to not cooperate with the short-sighted quarterly stock expectation b*llsh*t that wall-street's weasels (weevils?) thrive on. These short-sighted milestones are of no real value. I prefer the multi-generational long-term approach that cannot be easily monitored in profit-loss margins.

So that's my 90 minute answer.
I hope it's helpful to someone. :-)

Anne