1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart 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, (Canada) employs 79,046 people and is the largest private employer in Canada.
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. Slogans, over the years have changed: Always Low Prices Always Walmart 1994-?
We Sell For Less Everyday 1990s-2009. Save Money Live Better 2009-Present
9. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought bankruptcy (including Winn-Dixie).
10. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
11. Wal-Mart has approx 313 stores in the Canada of which 69 are Super Centers.
12. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at a Wal-Mart store.
(The Earth's population is approximately 6.5 billion.)
13. In 2006, the busiest Discount Centre in the world was one in Square One Shopping Centre,
100 City Centre Drive, Mississauga, Ontario Canada (Store #3055).
14. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.
15. Wal-Mart has more employees in uniform than the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force.
Here's an Idea: Let Wal-Mart bail out Wall Street, and the TSX.
Better yet . . .
let them run the Government's of Canada and the U.S..
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart_Canada