OT: How big is Wal-Mart

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HOW BIG IS WAL-MART?

 

 

This should boggle your mind!!

And scare you as well!

 

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 a go.

 

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 Wall Street

 

 

 

 

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