How Big is Wal-Mart?

[dicksbro]

Interesting whether you like Wal-Mart or not. Got it in an email and didn't even try to verify the data, but, it doesn't sound too far fetched.

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

[Lilith]

They are big enough, they whooped me :D

[PantyFanatic]

I like point #13 the best. :nod:

[FlirtWithMe]

Got it in an email and didn't even try to verify the data, but, it doesn't sound too far fetched.According to Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/bigwalmart.asp) it's mainly accurate :nod:

[PantyFanatic]

Then why isn't #13? :hair:

[jseal]

Because Wall-mart is a well run organization, in contrast to ...

[citrus]

Here's my guess :
WalMart and MicroSoft both avoid paying benefits to many of their workers by hiring either for a temporary period or paying by contracted services.
Most of WalMart product is made outside the USA. Many of MicroSoft's engineer's are temporarily employed and are from outside the USA . This is all a generalisation, but shows a shrewdness of the corporations practices. They are both globalized in their business model and the profits are still unimaginable yet to come!
I've stopped going to WalMart :banghead: and I own a Mac computer, no more crashing and security issues :fix:

[Scarecrow]

No UAW in Wal-Mart!!!

[Lord Snow]

Wal Mart used to be all made in America. They didn't start buying outside stuff until after Mr. Walton died. We're on our third generation of Waltons to "own" the company. It's now run by a board of directors. To be perfectly honest, I haven't heard a whole lot about major manufacturers (other than the big 3 car makers) having problems like that. It's been retail stores that were on the way out anyway and banks. If you think about it, shouldn't we let this happen to a certain extent? Every time something gets to big to sustain itself nature makes it shrink in some way. Just a thought.