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.
(The Earth's population is approximately 6.5 billion.)

 

12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart store.

 

13 Let Wal Mart bail out Wall Street.

 

 

Amazing facts.  I know their parking lot is full every time I drive by, day or night.  Guess ol Sam Walton had a pretty good business plan.