Saturday, November 22, 2008

WalMart to the Rescue

I received the following from a relative recently. I thought I would share it because it sounds like a plan to me because its Common Sense!

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 approximately6.5 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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