How Big is Wal-Mart?
At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer.
Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.
Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.
During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought bankruptcy (including Winn-Dixie).
Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
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.
This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at a Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 billion.)
90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.