JohnnyDos Posted February 10, 2015 Member ID: 77 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 111 Topic Count: 1018 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 7527 Content Per Day: 1.39 Reputation: 9175 Achievement Points: 69486 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 47 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 8, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Just how big is Walmart?Read the yellow highlights at the end...OMG, this should really boggle your mind.The joke about the sign on the moon saying 'Wal-Mart is coming soon" could well be true!! Take a look at the yellow highlights1. 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. Ie. 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????????? XjCrAzY and TBB 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage_inc- Posted February 10, 2015 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.36 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Device: Windows Share Posted February 10, 2015 crazy shit especially the Dead Peasant Life Insurance Policies-that should be illegal to take out an insurance plan on someone without there knowing-its just wrong Scoarch and XjCrAzY 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
7Toes Posted February 10, 2015 Member ID: 87 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 57 Topic Count: 98 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3789 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 3589 Achievement Points: 27249 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2022 Birthday: 04/02/1871 Share Posted February 10, 2015 it does not tell 99% of its employees are on government supplements to help them get by because wal-mart does not pay a livable wage. Walmart's low-wage workers cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billionin public assistance including food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing, according to a report published to coincide with Tax Day, April 15.Apr 15, 2014 iboomboom and eidolonFIRE 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
JohnnyNashville Posted February 10, 2015 Member ID: 25938 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 21 Topic Count: 343 Topics Per Day: 0.13 Content Count: 1493 Content Per Day: 0.58 Reputation: 284 Achievement Points: 13299 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/17/17 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 25, 2022 Birthday: 08/08/1961 Share Posted February 10, 2015 If you don't like Wal-Mart (like me) don't shop there. If you need to support a family on your earnings...don't work there (again like me). jn TBB, JohnnyDos and Millpucky 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little_old_man Posted February 10, 2015 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.28 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Share Posted February 10, 2015 It's easy to make Walmart out as the evil bad guy, but the fact of the matter is that they employ 1% of the US population and many of the talking points you guys have listed simply aren't true. Those figures that actually are close to correct also apply to Target, McDonalds and many other low paying companies. The number of Walmart employees on food stamps is more like 15% and not 99% as cited above. The dead peasant life insurance (something that is common and those of us in the business call key man insurance) ended in the mid 1990's and didn't apply to every store across the country. There are a number of other inaccuracies but I'm simply not going to take the time to research each one. I can tell you that I live in a major metropolitan area with a few million other people and the closest Walmart to me is 35 minutes away. There are however 4 Target stores within 20 minutes of me. The fact of the matter is that there are millions of unskilled workers in the US making at or below the federal minimum wage, and if many of them didn't work at places like Walmart, Target, or McDonalds then they probably wouldn't be working at all and 100% of them would be on Welfare and food stamps. As long as we continue our transformation from a manufacturing country to a consumer country, expect it all to get much worse. Leadfinger and Hefe33 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
MikeWestin Posted February 10, 2015 Member ID: 9767 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 34 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 46 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 59 Achievement Points: 471 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/18/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 4, 2022 Birthday: 03/22/1971 Share Posted February 10, 2015 I have 3 wal-marts with-in 5 miles of me...and the all have nick-names......1 to the east(3.5 hispanic-mart), 1 to the north(2.6 senior-mart) and 1 to the west (4.2 new-mart). Scoarch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
TBB Posted February 10, 2015 Member ID: 989 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 25 Topic Count: 274 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 18334 Content Per Day: 3.48 Reputation: 20400 Achievement Points: 134325 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 274 Joined: 01/07/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 13 hours ago Birthday: 01/27/1946 Device: Windows Share Posted February 10, 2015 I have 3 wal-marts with-in 5 miles of me...and the all have nick-names......1 to the east(3.5 hispanic-mart), 1 to the north(2.6 senior-mart) and 1 to the west (4.2 new-mart). I have 3 clan members within 50 miles of me and they all have the same nick name - >IDIOT< !!!! XjCrAzY, iboomboom, Scoarch and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Hefe33 Posted February 10, 2015 Member ID: 20684 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 22 Topic Count: 18 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 278 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 380 Achievement Points: 2224 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/12/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: Tuesday at 09:34 PM Birthday: 01/06/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted February 10, 2015 +1 @@little_old_man I couldn't have said it better myself the amount of mis-information about Wal-Mart is mind-boggling! people just repost it every day. interesting fact... a few of my friends work at our local Wal-Mart and have for years.. they have decent Insurance and make over $20 an hour well ABOVE the poverty line a couple of them have been there for over 20 years. (2 of them are married and are both are dept managers and have a pretty decent combined income (around 90k yr, that's pretty high in our area) the notion that ANY company should pay everyone a "livable wage" is ludicrous, we don't have the right to a livable wage, if we fail to prepare ourselves for our future.. we lose and lets face it, stocking peas on a shelf is a MINIMUM wage job.. I worked there on my way up, everyone has to start somewhere, and since they are the biggest employer in the world (aside from the US Govt) what better place to start! I learned about running a department, ordering, Hiring people, profit margins.... all stuff that helps me run a successful business today.. it really wasn't as bad as people make it out to be I wonder how many of today's and tomorrow's entrepreneurs started there? the amount of charitable donations that company hands out over and over is stunning! (1.3 Billion in 2013) 2 Billion to "fight hunger" they have committed 20 Billion to buy from women owned businesses as for all the china made crap.. that solution is simple... Wal-mart, Target, Meijer and all the other places like that are here for one reason... to sell stuff for a profit.. if we don't buy it.. they won't sell it.. plain and simple.. they will adapt.. let that garbage sit on their shelves and rot.. they will mark it down and never order it again the real problem (as I see it) everyone wants to make "good money" but nobody wants to work hard for it Scoarch, Blackbart, little_old_man and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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