The corporate entity known as WalMart is one of the world's largest corporate entities, with distribution centers, shipping supply lines, manufacturing facilities, warehouses, and retail outlets firmly under its control in over 80 countries. It is almost impossible to find a major populated area without a WalMart affiliated retail store located within approximately twenty miles, and in many areas multiple WalMarts operate in overlapping jurisdictions to fully saturate the market. Common complaints about the company include their dehumanizing treatment of workers and customers, their hostile and belligerent negotiation tactics, and their myriad schemes for developing new ways to infiltrate every level of society. In addition to their primary brand, they own thousands of shell companies, smaller corporations, and brand names to obscure their involvement. Furthermore, their comprehensive data profiling of customers gives them a database about individuals that rivals many local governments - in short, it's not wise to purchase anything from a WalMart that you wouldn't want the world to know about, as that data is perfectly legal for them to disseminate, post on their website, post on your Facebook, or simply to use as leverage when they decide they want more.
WalMart Loss Prevention is a corporate security force and comprehensive surveillance organization that operates more like a police state than like store security, constantly monitoring the activities of customers, employees, and people passing through the neighborhood. Considering they see competition as a potential loss of market share, unionization as a potential loss of profit, and government interference as a potential loss of both, there are rumors of WLP having black-ops-grade departments specifically to handle things like extortion and wetwork.
The high-profile death of WalMart union organizers in eight states in 2035 followed by a string of punitive anti-unionization laws passed shortly after in Congress (under the laughably titled 'American Employer Fairness Act') brought down heavy suspicion on the shadowy corporation, especially after three people implicated in the murders pointed the finger at a WalMart Loss Prevention associate as the person responsible for payment and targeting information. Although WalMart denied all wrongdoing, there are persistent rumors that the abrupt purchase of several major media entities by WalMart Corporate was done specifically to shutdown an ongoing investigation into the matter.
WalMart sells, distributes, and in many cases manufactures products from a very wide product line - from paper products to electronics, from bedding to clothing, from furniture to pet supplies, and from pharmaceuticals to firearms. Most of the goods they manufacture are of cheap to good quality, and they sell products from practically any corporation that will concede to their demands. One major corporation that does not sell products through WalMart is Apple Technologies, after a major falling-out; as a result, WalMart has been aggressively marketing other brands of consumer electronics and actively manufacturing its own as well.