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Title: 14 Wal-Mart facts that will blow your mind
Source: MSN Money
URL Source: http://money.msn.com/investing/post ... facts-that-will-blow-your-mind
Published: Oct 18, 2013
Author: Ashley Lutz
Post Date: 2013-10-21 20:09:46 by X-15
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Views: 463
Comments: 6

We compiled some facts about Wal-Mart that will blow your mind:
•Wal-Mart averages a profit of $1.8 million every hour.
•35 million people shop at Wal-Mart every day, as much as the population of Canada.
•Wal-Mart's $316 billion U.S. retail sales exceed those of Kroger (KR -0.28%), Target (TGT -0.20%), Costco (COST -0.65%) and Walgreens (WAG -0.61%) combined.
•The average Wal-Mart supercenter sells 140,000 individual items.
•Wal-Mart opened between four and five new stores every week in 2012.
•The Walton family is worth $150 billion, about as much as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg combined.
•Wal-Mart commonly receives 25 applications for every open job.
•Between Wal-Mart's opening in 1962 and 2002, the number of single-store retailers in the U.S. declined 55%.
•Wal-Mart accounts for 25% of Clorox's (CLX -0.50%) total sales.
•Wal-Mart's top-selling item in 2012 was the banana.
•90% of Americans live within 15 minutes of a Wal-Mart.
•Wal-Mart's net sales were $466 billion in 2012. That's more than Argentina's GDP.
•Wal-Mart has 2.2 million employees, more than the population of Houston.
•If Wal-Mart were a country, it would be the 26th largest economy in the world.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
•The Walton family is worth $150 billion, about as much as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg combined.

Clarification...
Six members of the Walton family hold more wealth than the bottom thirty three per cent of Americans.
Fact...Wal Mart pay is so bad that that a majority of their employees are on government doles. In other words, American taxpayers are subsidizing Wal Mart.

Cynicom posted on 2013-10-21 20:25:39 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#2. To: X-15 (#0)
Mr.Sam wouldn't recognize the monstrosity that his company has become.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Lod posted on 2013-10-21 20:26:46 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#3. To: Cynicom, X-15, Lod (#1)
Sam Walton married a Jewess so that 150 billion dollars belongs to the Jews.
The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie
Horse posted on 2013-10-21 20:30:48 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#4. To: X-15 (#0)
Between Wal-Mart's opening in 1962 and 2002, the number of single-store retailers in the U.S. declined 55%.

When I lived in Lebanon, Missouri, I would get raw chickens from a butcher across the street from the Post Office, and take them home and cook them. After they opened Wal-Mart, he could not compete. He closed the shop and sold all the equipment. ;)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
BTP Holdings posted on 2013-10-21 20:41:06 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#5. To: Horse (#3)
Sam Walton married a Jewess so that 150 billion dollars belongs to the Jews.

Her family put up the money to put ole Sam in business.
There was a recent study done as to what Wal Mart COSTS THE TAXPAYERS.
Part of it was that last year, if the family took 4 billion less in profit, not one of their employees would be under the poverty level.
That would have left Wal Mart with 18 billion in profit.

Cynicom posted on 2013-10-21 21:03:20 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#6. To: X-15 (#0)
How about some activism of exposing Wal Mart's slave labor. Signs right in front of their stores.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams, (1722-1803)
Americans 1st posted on 2013-10-22 0:42:04 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
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