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HOW BIG IS WAL-MART?
This should boggle your mind!! And scare you as well!
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, keeping
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 Super Centers; 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. The value of productsfor Wal-Mart passing through the port
of San Diego each year is a larger sum than 93% of ALL
countries Gross National Product (GNP) ...and that is
only ONE port ...one way that Wal-Mart gets it's stuff.
14. Of the 1.6 million employees, only 1.2% make a living above the
poverty level.
15. Wal-Mart's head office is located and centralized in Bentonville. Due
to this fact, there are more millionaires per square mile there than
any place on Earth..
16. The official U.S. Government position is that Wal-Mart's
prices are no lower than anyone else's when compared to a typical
families weekly purchases.
That's the view of the statisticians at the Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) responsible for calculating the consumer price index
(CPI).
17. 92% of everything Wal-Mart sells, comes from China. Another 4% comes
from Chinese owned companies in the U.S. or in 3rd world countries.
18. Wal-Mart and MOST large companies, take out life insurance
on it's employees, without their knowing. If an employee dies, ALL
the insurance moneys go to the companies.
<span style="font-weight: bold">i.e. An employee making $18,000 per year, dies, and the company might
make as much as $1 million. Most often these moneys, coming from what is
commonly referred to as "Dead Peasant Life Insurance Policies", is paid out
to executives as bonuses. (A common practice, unknown by the common man)</span>
19. Wal-Mart now averages a "profit" (not sales) of $36 billion per year.
20. *Let Wal-Mart bail out Wall Street.* If not, consider shopping
someplace else.
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