WAL-MART
INTERESTING STATS!! SCARY STATS!!
1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart 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 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.
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approximately 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906
are Super Centers; 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.
You may think that I am concerned, but I am really laying the ground
work for suggesting that MAYBE, we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart
to fix the economy, because the idiots in Washington sure can’t do
it!



