HOW BIG IS WAL-MART?

1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of every day.
2. This results in $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 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 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
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You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that Wal-Mart should be the one that bails out Wall Street.
Better yet, let them run the darn government. Obviously someone there knows what they are doing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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