Wal-Mart and Wall Street https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2008/12/wal-mart-and-wall-street.htm konane's Blog: Wal-Mart and Wall Street en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator Comment #2 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2008/12/wal-mart-and-wall-street.htm#c30826 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2008/12/wal-mart-and-wall-street.htm#c30826 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:45:22 GMT konane Thanks Diamondpalace!! One of my favorite places to shop too.

]]> konane Comment #1 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2008/12/wal-mart-and-wall-street.htm#c30824 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2008/12/wal-mart-and-wall-street.htm#c30824 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:35:39 GMT diamondpalace This reminds me, I need to go shopping this weekend at Wal-Mart for some stuff.

]]> diamondpalace Original Blog Entry: Wal-Mart and Wall Street https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2008/12/wal-mart-and-wall-street.htm https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2008/12/wal-mart-and-wall-street.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:18:21 GMT konane 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

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