From Danny Schechter's blog, I lifted this list of Walmart statistics:
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 largest private employer. And most can't speak English
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 five years ago.
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