How Big is Walmart.......

[DianaB]

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 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 Wall Street

[Tiramisu]

Very neat statistics!

[Janet]

I wish we had other places to shop in town other than Wal Mart. I don't really believe ALL of those statistics, but who is to know for sure.

[DianaB]

I really liked #13 where Walmart should bailout Wall Street!!!! It sounds like a good solution to me!!!

[judy]

Let Wal Mart bail out Wall Street

Brilliant!

[Janet]

If it's true they make that much then Wal Mart should "pay it forward" don't ya think?

[Tiramisu]

Originally Posted by Janet

If it's true they make that much then Wal Mart should "pay it forward" don't ya think?

Unfortunately, they probably think that they're already paying it forward by "rolling back prices".

[Nina]

I love it, "let WalMart bail out wall street".....sounds like a plan!

[Gina]

I don't have a Walmart close to me.. I have to drive about 25 minutes.. I have Target and I like that store much better.. Yeah let Walmart bail out Wall street !!

[Marilyn]

To number 13, I say a resounding AMEN!!

Walmart was the biggest driver for consumer goods manufacturings move to China!!! Which resulted in the loss of many US jobs, shrinking the middle class.