HOW BIG IS WAL-MART?
1. At Wal-Mart,
Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour
of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit
every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more
from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th)
than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot +
Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco +
K-Mart combined.
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people
and is the largest private employer. And most can't speak
English
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company
in the history of the World.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food
than Kroger & Safeway combined,
and keep in mind they did this
in only 15 years.
8. During this same period,
31 Supermarket chains sought bankruptcy
(including Winn-Dixie).
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food
than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores
in the USA of which 1,906 are SuperCenters;
this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.
11. This year, 7.2 billion different
purchasing experiences will occur
at a Wal-Mart store.
(Earth's population is approximately
6.5 billion.)
12. 90% of all Americans live
within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart
13. Let Wal Mart bail out The Big Three
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