How big is Wal*mart

[mm38nut]

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

[imported_drgnfly3030]

And $100 million of that is spent at the Norton store every year.

[Milk3]

i say we rob them

[starbuck]

"5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer AND most can't speak English"

this one I don't believe.

[imported_elp6n]

a few of these are somewhat questionable. looks like the classic mass email.

[MikMo]

Watch "WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price". You might change your mind. It's been on some of the pay channels lately.