HOW BIG IS WAL-MART?
This should boggle your mind!! and probably 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.
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.
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 1,906are Super Centers;
this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.
11. This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences
will occurat 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 product for 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, Arkansas.
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 pricesare no lower than anyone else’s
when compared to a typical families weekly purchases.
That’s the view of the statisticians at the BureauOf 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 third 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 money goes to the company.
This means when an employee, making $18,000 per year, dies,
the company might make as much as $1 million.
Most often this money, coming from what is commonly referred to as ”Dead Peasant Life Insurance Policies”,
is paid out to executives as BONUSES.
(A common practice, unknown to the common man)
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.