These folks say otherwise:
excerpt: Over the next few days, Wal-Mart's response to Katrina -- an unrivaled $20 million in cash donations, 1,500 truckloads of free merchandise, food for 100,000 meals and the promise of a job for every one of its displaced workers -- has turned the chain into an unexpected lifeline for much of the Southeast and earned it near-universal praise at a time when the company is struggling to burnish its image.
That’s total baloney. None of that money came to the people who needed it. I lived through katrina and went to every open walmart in the area looking for whatever I could get. I was spending several hours in line every day looking for whatever they brought in that day. Food was hard to come by at times, particularly if you didn’t get there at the right time of day. Most walmarts weren’t even open for many months because the stores were too damaged or no electricity or not enough people to work there. Why do you believe the lies of the MSM and walmart? That money earmarked for katrina relief probably all went in someone’s pockets inside the company. We didn’t see any of it down here in MS and LA.