These facts are scary
This should boggle your mind!! And Probably scare you as well!
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.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, Keeping 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 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 ... Just one of the ways that 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. 92% of everything Wal-Mart sells, comes from China . Another 4% Comes from
Chinese owned companies in the U.S. Or in 3rd world countries.
17. 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 common man)
18. Wal-Mart now averages a "profit" (not sales) of $36 billion per year.