Read the yellow
highlights at the end...OMG.. this should really boggle
your mind..
the joke about the
sign on the moon saying 'Walmart's coming soon" could
well be
true!!!
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, keep in
mind they did this
in only 15 years.
8. During this
same period, 31 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 1,906 are Super
Centers ; 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. The value of product for Wal-Mart passing
through the port of San
Diego each year is
a larger sum than 93% of ALL countries Gross National
Product (GNP)
... and that is only ONE port ...one way that¹s how
Wal-Mart gets it's
stuff.
14. Of the 1.6 million employees, only 1.2% make
a living above the
poverty level.
15. Wal-Mart's
head office is located and centralized
in Bentonville. Due to this fact, there are more millionaires per square mile there than any
place on Earth.
16. The official
U.S. Government position is that Wal-Mart's prices are no
lower than anyone
else's when compared to a typical
families weekly
purchases. That's
the view of the statisticians at the Bureau Of Labor
Statistics (BLS)
responsible for calculating the Consumer Price Index
(CPI).
17. 92% of everything Wal-Mart sells, comes from
China . Another 4%
comes from
Chineseowned companies in the U.S. Or in
3rd world Countries.
18. Wal-Mart
and MOST large companies, take out life
insurance on it's
employees, without
their knowing. If an employee dies, ALL the
insurance moneys
go to the companies. I.e. An employee making $18,000 per year, dies, and the
company might make as much as $1
million. Most often
these moneys,
coming from what is commonly referred to
as "Dead Peasant
Life Insurance
Policies", is paid out to executives as bonuses. (A common
practice, unknown
by the average consumer).
19. Wal-Mart now averages a "profit"
(not sales) of $36 billion per
year.
20. Let
Wal-Mart bail out Wall Street. If
not, consider shopping
someplace
else.
If we closed all
the Wal-mart stores would China go bankrupt?????????
