HOW BIG IS WAL*MART?? A NEW BAIL OUT THEORY
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 the other big 3
*Thanks, SalTCBug
1 comment:
An acquaintance of mine told me once that most of the cities and towns of Upper New York State (where he lived) had an interesting dynamic....there was a crumbling downtown and collapsing infrastructure, with one or two outlying streets which had Taco Bells, MacDonalds, Targets and WalMarts, all bright and shiney, in contrast to the dingy world around them. They reminded him of bright and shiney beetles feeding on the bodies of dead and dying animals.
The imagery sticks in my head.
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