[Rhodes22-list] Fact(s) of the day...or not

Hank hnw555 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 25 21:24:20 EST 2008


Elle,

I couldn't figure out from your post.  Are you for or against walmart or
just posting this because you think it is incredible.

By the way, if the numbers are correct, they are operating on a profit
margin of slightly below 3.5 percent.  Pretty low, isn't it?

Hank

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:16 PM, elle <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I didn't bother to 'Snopes' this or vet it...we needed CHANGE.
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> HOW BIG IS WAL-MART??
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> 1 . At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day.
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> 2 . This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
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> 3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th)
> than Target sells all year.
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> 4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco +
> K-Mart combined.
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> 5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer.
> And most can't speak English.
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> 6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.
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> 7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep in
> mind they did this in only 15 years.
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> 8. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought
> bankruptcy (including Winn-Dixie).
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> 9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
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> 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.
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> 11. This year , 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at
> a Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 billion.)
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> 12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart
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> 13. Let Wal Mart bail out Wall Street.
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> We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.
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