Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's biggest retailer, is preparing to hold a meeting on Thursday to announce the development of an index that will be used to measure the environmental impact of the products it sells in its stores.'This summit represents a key inflection point in the process of designing and launching Wal-Mart Sustainability Index, which is the tool Wal-Mart buyers will use to evaluate their 60,000 suppliers and determine the hundreds of thousands of products that end up on store shelves,' the company states on a website designed for the event.
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Wal-Mart said in a press release on Tuesday that it would hold a meeting on Thursday to discuss its plans 'to address consumers' increasing expectations for more sustainable products and how measuring sustainability can drive innovation in the supply chain and in products consumers purchase.'
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