Thread: How BIG Is Wal-Mart?

How BIG Is Wal-Mart?
Anonymous
12-7-8

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 rrom 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. That is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.

11. This year, 7.2 billion purchases will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (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

14. Let Wal-Mart sell GM cars!

http://www.rense.com/general84/howbig.htm

I do some shopping there, but not everything is cheaper there as I have found some things cheaper at K-Mart.
Something about Wal-Mart's atmosphere IMHO seems impersonable??