Walmart is committing wide-scale consumer fraud and endangering the health of its customers through its sale and marketing of homeopathic medicines, the Center for Inquiry (CFI) alleges in a lawsuit filed in the District of Columbia on May 20.
CFI says the mega-retailer is deceiving consumers by making no meaningful distinction between real medicine and useless homeopathic treatments on its shelves and in its online store, misrepresenting homeopathy’s safety and efficacy. CFI is currently engaged in a similar suit against CVS, the nation’s largest drug retailer, filed in June 2018 (“Center for Inquiry Sues CVS Pharmacies for Marketing of ‘Sham’ Homeopathy,” SI, November/December 2018). It is still ongoing.