[Wal-Mart statistics verified by Snopes (however, we don’t know who verifies
Snopes). Commentary not verified by anyone. Taken from a local political
column whose author may enjoy tea.]
1 Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $35,000 company 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 2 million people worldwide (1.4 million in US), is the
world’s largest private employer, and most speak English.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep
in mind they did this in only fifteen years.
8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
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 2,906 are Super
Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.
11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at
Wal-Mart stores. (Earth’s population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
12. 97% of all Americans live within 25 miles of a Wal-Mart.
13. Wal-Mart has gross sales that total more than the total revenue of all
the countries in the world, except 6.
You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground-work
for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix
the economy. Our politicians must think simple math, balanced budgets, and
don’t bankrupt the nation or destroy our future is ‘above their pay grade’.
They should be shown the door and hire WALMART to run the government. “You
can’t fix stupid, but you can vote it out!”
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Dr Bob Griffin
[email protected] www.grif.net
“Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!”