I really have no idea why Walmart is doing this...I mean, the only reason I can think is politics. Trying to get good publicity. Or they're mad that Hobby Lobby got attention and they didn't.
Walmart is an enormous, international, competition destroying, landscape altering, corporate monstrosity...
like all other entities of their enormity,
there is only one reason they do anything.
Something makes them money, or it doesn't.
Simple.
There is no other mantra in big business.
If teachers are getting a discount... good for them.
But to think this is pure altruism, coming from Walmart... a massive international conglomerate which is DAILY in the news for destroying other businesses around the world, and is daily in the news for all manners of deceptive and destructive business practices... that's just silly.
If you're a teacher and you're getting a discount, good for you.
Enjoy the discount.
But don't be silly enough to think Walmart loves you.
It's a huge international corporation no different than British Petroleum, Monsanto, Microsoft... or any other huge myopic corporation. They have one goal, and that is to make money. The best way to make money is ALWAYS through monopoly, unfair practices, utterly destroying competition, political lobbying, deception etc. etc.
Come on guys... this isn't rocket science.
This stuff is in the news every day.