i have an idea

[laidbackryder]

Think this is very interesting!



HOW BIG IS WAL-MART?



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

[jlprigmore]

Wow I knew walmart was huge but I've never actually seen it in numbers before.

[Beast Lee]

Interesting...

A friend at work was telling me the other day that Wal-Mart pays for the inventory after it is sold... So there is no outlay of their own cash, and whatever does not sell, they send back...

World domination...

[Morella]

The IRS employs ten million people. I was shocked when I heard that, until I saw the Internal Revenue Code. There is no way that I could read this Great Tome of Taxation in my lifetime, even if I did nothing else. I've read the Holy Babble...it's a leaflet compared to this monarch.

If anyone wants to see it, I'll try to photograph it, but I don't know if I can do it justice.

-denise

[HearseHaunter]

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.

Well for me thats a good thing. I work for a place that builds the refridgeration and electrical units ofr the SuperCenters.
But the Government has forced WalMart to cut their openings of new Stores by 30% this past year.

[Morella]

All I can say is that if you don't want to see Wal-Mart get any bigger, don't shop there.

There are only a few things that I buy at Wal-mart, mostly car batteries, because they are fresh, and the selection is good.

I have been disappointed a few times with the quality of the merchandise there, so I'm afraid to buy much, unless I know the brand. Even then. I have to examine the box to see if they're trying to sell "reconditioned" merchandise as new.

-denise