1. At Wal-Mart,
Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day.
2. This works out to a $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. Most of its employees 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.14. Of the 1.6 million employees, only 1.2% makes 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 family's weekly purchases. That's the view of the statisticians at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) responsible for calculating the Consumer Price Index.
17. 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.
18. Wal-Mart and MOST large companies, take out life insurance on its 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 monies, coming from what is commonly referred to as "Dead Peasant Life Insurance Policies", are 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?????????
Wouldn't THIS be a dream come true for the world!
And yes, it's a fact that Sam Walton, who started Wal-Mart in
Bentonville, Arkansas, always drove himself to work in his pick-up truck.
I reckon he did that so as not to incite his underpaid
wage-slaves to find and hang him.
It is also a fact that the tax "relief" given to the five surviving Waltons under Bush 43's "More, Much More for the Very Rich!" program was greater than the entire amount of tax relief given to the WAL MART Monster's SIXTEEN MILLION wage-slaves.
These five have no brains or talents whatsoever. They simply
were lucky enough to be born into Sam's family, just as Bush 43 was born to
theüber-rich, with a silver spoon up his nose, causing him to miss almost all
of his Texas Air Reserve flight training.
Here in SW TN, we have come to the point that we have little choice to shop for some things, except that big box store.
ReplyDeleteI try to counter that by buying online whenever possible. But now TN is enacting tax laws to take away even that advantage.
However, we will not purchase any food from there. Period. The meat is atrocious.
The problem has become bigger than just Wal-Mart. I mean, where could someone buy American Made products in this country if nothing is made here?
A friend recently explained that contrary to the beef industry claims, McDonalds insists it must import beef from China for its burgers since we don't produce enough here.
I call BS.