1. At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day. This works out to $20,928 profit each minute!
2. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to March 17th than Target sells all year.
3. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot, Kroger, Target, Sears, Costco & K- Mart combined.
4. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer.
5. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.
6. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in 15 years.
7. During this same period, 31 grocery chains sought bankruptcy.
8. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
9. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA and over 1,900 are Supercenters.
10. Over 72 billion different purchasing experiences will happen in Wal-Mart stores. That's 11 times the population of the earth.
11. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.
(Numbers are based on 2011)
I used to work part-time at Wal-Mart and let me say that it might be one of the best places I've ever worked. I worked at two different Wal-Marts and in both stores management was kind, caring, and involved. My wife and I have worked in retail for many years and the health and dental coverage at Wal-Mart is as competitive and even better than most of the employers we have worked. While Wal-Mart's benefits are not as good as GM or Chrystler, they are not bad for retail and they didn't need a bailout.
Wal-Mart saves the average customer over $2000 a year, which is more than many people get in their tax refund from the federal government. Wal-Mart keeps prices low, they give millions of dollars to charity, and if you are willing to work hard you can advance in the company to become even the CEO. The current CEO started at Wal-Mart as a par-time cart pusher.
If Wal-Mart ran the government things would actually get done and our taxes would be the lowest in the world. Because just like how Wal-Mart prides itself on having the lowest prices in the world, if Wal-Mart ran our country they would want to have the lowest taxes in the world and control spending. And now that they are raising wages to a minimum of $10.00 an hour it will have an effect of raising the country's minimum wage to $10.00 an hour. Most other businesses will have to follow Wal-Mart's lead to stay competitive.
