How Big is Walmart? Who shops at Walmart? How Big is Walmart? This should boggle your mind! And Probably scare you as well! 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. Patricks 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 cant 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, keep in mind they did this in only 15 years. 8. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought bankruptcy. 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 Super Centers ; 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. (Earths population is approximately 6.5 billion). 12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart. 13. The value of product for Wal-Mart passing through the port of San Diego each year is a larger sum than 93% of ALL countries Gross National Product (GNP) .....and that is only ONE port... one way – that’s how Wal-Mart gets its stuff. 14. Of the 1.6 million employees, only 1.2% make a living above the poverty level. 15. Wal-Marts head office is located and centralized in Bentonville. Due to this fact, there are more millionaires per square mile there than any place on Earth. 16. The official U.S. Government position is that Wal-Marts prices are no lower than anyone elses when compared to a typical families weekly purchases. Thats the view of the statisticians at the Bureau Of Labor Statistics (BLS) responsible for calculating the Consumer Price Index (CPI). 17. 92% of everything Wal-Mart sells, comes from China . A nother 4% comes fromChinese owned companies in the U.S. or in 3rd world Countries. 18. Wal-Mart and MOST large companies, take out life insurance on its employees, without their knowing. If an employee dies, ALL the insurance moneys go to the companies. (i.e. An employee making $18,000 per year, dies, and the companymight make as much as $1 million. Most often these moneys, coming from what is commonly referred to as Dead Peasant Life Insurance Policies, is paid out to executives as bonuses. A common practice, unknown by the average consumer). 19... Wal-Mart now averages a profit (not sales) of $36 billion per year. 20. Let Wal-Mart bail out Wall Street. If not, consider shopping someplace else. If we closed all the Wal-mart stores would China go bankrupt?
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 08:12:57 +0000
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