[klaatumail] Re: Fwd: Fw: How Big is Walmart?
- From: paul jackson <klaatu1701@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: klaatumail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:15:06 -0400
SORRY
that was an accident
pj
On 4/28/2011 5:59 PM, paul jackson wrote:
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> Subject: Fw: How Big is Walmart?
> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:06:51 -0400
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> *Sent:* Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:09 AM
> *Subject:* Fw: How Big is Walmart?
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> cid:6EBD633F685F4AB38A05351648BD1C59@SidneyPC
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> *This should boggle your mind!! And****Probably**scare
> you as well!**
> *
> 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, 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 (GNP) .....and
> that is only ONE port ...one way – that’s how Wal-Mart
> gets it's stuff.
>
> 14. Of the 1.6 million employees, only 1.2% make 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 families weekly purchases. That's
> the view of the statisticians at the Bureau Of Labor
> Statistics (BLS) responsible for calculating the Consumer
> Price Index (CPI).
>
> 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 it's 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 moneys,
> coming from what is commonly referred to as "Dead
> Peasant Life Insurance Policies", is 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?????????*
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