Among other things, the retailer will no longer use the term D.E.I. : In June of 2020, as protesters spilled into the streets after the murder of George Floyd, Walmart’s chief executive, Doug McMillon, promised action. In a blog post, he said that “slavery, lynching, the concept of separate but equal … have morphed into a set of systems today that are all too often, unjust” and promised to address systemic racism by establishing a Center for Racial Equity that would give out $100 million in grants over five years.