Walmart carefully tracks shrinkage. Any empty packaging is placed in a bin.
Walmart does collect from vendors for damaged stock which includes things like canned goods shipped out without labels and containers damaged before being placed in the case for shipping.
If there’s a way, Walmart is on it.
No business actually pays taxes. All business income is from sales. If governments take part of the income from sales then the price of sales increases. If a company does not make profit it closes.
Governments in this country take over half of our earned income. We have Federal, State and local income taxes, we have sales taxes we have excise tax, property taxes and government fees out the wazoo. Even though governments get more of our money than we do it is not enough, governments spend more than they collect even though they collect record amounts each year.
When I was born in the 40’s the defense department was 75% of the federal budget. Today payments to individuals is nearly 75% of the federal budget and similar percentages are starting to happen in all the state budgets. But still it isn't enough, the governments borrow against our future earnings which guarantee an increase in future taxes to pay it off, it also guarantees an increase in the inflation rate. 40% of every dollar spent by the federal government is borrowed, or perhaps “printed” from thin air would be a better description. A day of reckoning will have to come, it will not be pretty.
Where in our Federal or state constitutions does it allow the government to make slaves of us to support people who don't earn a living but get one anyway? Before LBJ this was not the case, this is called “vote buying” and I for one am sick of it.