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.