Subj:.....How Big Is Wal-Mart (S620b)           From: tom on 11/29/2008 Photo from TheCentsibleSawyer.blogspot.com...

I’m not sure if these facts about Wal-Mart are true,
but they are interesting.

 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
 
 

There is a very good book called    The Wal-Mart Effect       by Charles Fishman    for sale at       http://www.walmarteffectbook.com/    that covers some of these facts. Picture from WalMartEffect.com

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