*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 1st 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. And most can't speak English.
*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.
I say let Wal-Mart bail out Wall Street!!
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