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

[elle]

Hank,

I don't like or dislike WM...although by having them 25 miles away I don't have to go 80 for 75% of the shopping I have to do...(in town we have a gas station, a grocery, which I support as much as I can...and a Buy-Rite...which has one of every closeout known to man. Shopper's Paradise!)

I just thought the WM bit was thought -provoking...a bit of change from the "mine is bigger' that is proliferation here for the time being.

3.5% is not too bad ...DC area grocery stores  are squeezed at both ends...I thought I read that Giant /Safeway work under 1%...a really low margin...Ukrops & Wegmans (more independents) have slightly higher returns. But I don't know for sure & for sure I don't care....;^)

elle

Never consider that I will take life seriously again.

We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.

1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"   (Lady in Red)


--- On Tue, 11/25/08, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Fact(s) of the day...or not
> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 9:24 PM
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > HOW BIG IS WAL-MART??
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > We can't change the angle of the wind....but we
> can adjust our sails.
> >
> > 1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"
>   (Lady in Red)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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