The unspoken secret is most of these billionaires and company CEO’s are crony capitalists/socialists. They despise the free market and use the gov to kill the upstart competition.
there remains the curious fact that sometimes these big companies do stupid things (especially from a customer relations or public relations or marketing perspective)...
here all WM had to do was make the kid his ring, nobody would have had any occasion to object... and WM would have had a presumably happy customer
instead someone at WM decided to refuse the customer’s business...... and a lot of other people are left wondering whether to shop at WM or take their money elsewhere
all this when no controversy was necessary in the first place
oh well, Sam Walton is long deceased so...often successful firms go downhill after their founders leave