Walmart craziness! -Wal-Mart averages a profit of $1.8 million every hour. -35 million people shop at Wal-Mart every day, as much as the population of Canada. -Wal-Marts $316 billion U.S. retail sales exceed those of Kroger (KR +0.40%), Target (TGT -0.29%), Costco (COST -0.52%) and Walgreens (WAG -0.29%) combined. -The average Wal-Mart supercenter sells 140,000 individual items. -Wal-Mart opened between four and five new stores every week in 2012. -The Walton family is worth $150 billion, about as much as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg combined. -Wal-Mart commonly receives 25 applications for every open job. -Between Wal-Marts opening in 1962 and 2002, the number of single-store retailers in the U.S. declined 55%. -Wal-Mart accounts for 25% of Cloroxs (CLX +0.59%) total sales. -Wal-Marts top-selling item in 2012 was the banana. -90% of Americans live within 15 minutes of a Wal-Mart. -Wal-Marts net sales were $466 billion in 2012. Thats more than Argentinas GDP. -Wal-Mart has 2.2 million employees, more than the population of Houston. -If Wal-Mart were a country, it would be the 26th largest economy in the world.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 01:23:40 +0000
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