- 1 . At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every
hour of every day.
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- 2 . This works out to $20,928 profit every minute.
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- 3. Wal-Mart will sell more rrom January 1 to St. Patrick's
Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
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- 4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger +
Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
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- 5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest
private employer. And most can't speak English
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- 6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of
the world.
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- 7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway
combined, and keep in mind they did this In only 15 years.
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- 8. During this same period, 31 supermarket chains
sought bankruptcy (including Winn-Dixie).
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- 9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store
in the world.
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- 10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which
1,906 are SuperCenters. That is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.
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- 11. This year, 7.2 billion purchases will occur at Wal-Mart
stores. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 billion.)
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- 12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart
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- 13. Let Wal-Mart bail out Wall Street
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- 14. Let Wal-Mart sell GM cars!
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