Wal-Mart

[A383Wing]

HOW BIG IS WAL-MART?

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!!

[Troy]

Just FYI - I think most of that is made up (has been debunked). I know I've commented on it before. The things that always makes me "check the facts" are comments like "And most can't speak English" mixed in with a bunch of accurate looking statistics. Actually, the sales figures are a bit low these days but when this email was created several years ago they were overstated.

Troy

[Khyron]

90% of all online statistics are made up

[AKcharger]

This is what I think about when Walmart is mentioned

[mikepmcs]

 

I agree, 100% of the statistics you find are made up 90% of the time, and then, only 60% of those statistics are really true 25% of the time.

[magnumdart]

100% of the statistics that are true don't really matter anyway, sometimes.

[badass]

Say no to Wal Mart.

[JoeyGowdy]

I worked at WalMart once...   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl1k5vLIApQ

http://www.walmartworkersrights.org

   

[BigRed66]

Say no to Wal Mart.

Amen. F%#K Wal-Mart.

[squeakfinder]

This is what I think about when Walmart is mentioned

This is terrible! I scored blackout.

[Mopar2Ya]

Say no to Wal Mart.

Amen. F%#K Wal-Mart.

+1! Wal-Mart can burn in hell. Along w/Homodumpster, Lowes, etc. America needs to wake up & free its self from these China supporting monopolies. 

[teamroth]

^^ that's why we won't allow a Wal Mart in NYC

[badass]

  Any more Ideas I bought a pair of running shoes from new balance Made in usa but  only a few of there modles are.       Tricky?                                                                                                                                                                                                           Its hard nowdays but we need to try,What do they say ?  spend less live better Dont think so !      The new Harley Sportster 1200 is pretty cool and the older style is $8,000 good price for a Harley no chrome Made in the USA. but that could take away from your Mopar

[Mopar2Ya]

Yeah, people need to quite worrying about spending $1 more on American. Basically: buy American or STFU when you're unemployed. A major employer(Ethen-Allen Furniture) in my area is shutting down leaving hundreds unemployed. They are getting stuff from China, so they can compete w/the likes of Ashley.

[Troy]

Guys, this is "The Lighter Side" - meaning jokes. Let's keep it on track.

Troy

[Mopar2Ya]

My bad. I forgot what section I was in.

[badass]

Lighten up but it was gettin good