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This was sent to me in an email. I have not independently verified the facts as stated:

HOW BIG IS WAL-MART?

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 fluent 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, keeping

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.

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 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 common man.)

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.

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