Potentially Incorrect Facts about 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.
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!

Update!  Thanks to bustedstr8 for finding this terrifying map showing the growth of Wal-Mart since it started.  Or else it is a map of his HPV outbreak that he renamed, but I like to think it is the former.  Thanks Busted!  LINK TO SCARY MAP

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