2+2=Wal-Mart
None of the numbers below include China..
01. At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day.
02. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
03. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St.Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
04. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
05. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the USA's largest private employer.
06. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.
07. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.
08. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought bankruptcy (including Winn-Dixie).
09. 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 Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart
posted by MBO at 4:57 PM
4 Comments:
Adam, have you read Charles Fishman's "The Wal-Mart Effect"?
It's a good analysis of the GLOBAL impact of Wal-Mart.
I'll check it out, sounds like a horror story of epic scope.
Thanks
A
But, but, bah... where else am I supposed to go when I need a pair of oven mitts, some socks, and an onion at 3am?
Capitalism rules.
Penn & Teller had an episode on their show Bullshit the other day about Wal-Mart. Interesting stuff.
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