Was sent this by a friend who works for Wal-Mart and who checks data through Snopes so assume figures are reasonably accurate.  Go Wallyworld!!!

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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,
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