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How big is the Wal-Mart conglomerate?

I've heard it's the biggest corporation in the world?

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  • papaw
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Sad - there goes the independent businesses in two more communities. Enjoy the cheap items (if you have a job to buy any).

    HOW BIG IS WAL-MART?

    1 . At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day

    2. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.

    3. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.

    4. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer.

    5. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.

    6. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.

    7. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought bankruptcy (including Winn-Dixie).

    8. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.

    9. This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at a Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 billion.)

  • 1 decade ago

    It came to our town like a plague of locusts, destroyed everything in it's path.

    They knocked down a block of offices and an historical theater to accommodate it, it put our local supermarket out of business, next to go was the independent green grocers, then the "dollar store" type place, then another of the same, then a little supermarket.....when it first opened it had everything as a discount to get all the shoppers to go there and they over baked and over made all the bread, pizza, cakes, cooked meats and chickens etc so at the end of the evening it was a total bonanza of virtually free food, so everyone swarmed there and left the other shops.

    As soon as it had knocked out all the competition, all the cheap stuff was gone, and now all it's cheap product lines are being phased out. The 16p juice I bought last week has been replaced with a bottle half the size and almost twice the price at 27p.....still cheap but a lot less of a good deal....the 17p tortillas are suddenly 50p - in a weeks time they will have the price "rolled back" to 38p and make out it is a good deal. It was a better deal before you loaded the price.

    hate em.

  • Cessna
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    All the Wal-Mart greeters put together are officiall the biggest ANYTHING in the world.

  • bob
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Walmart by itself has the 8th largest GDP of any nation in the world.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Pretty big, my friend.

    Oh and the first guy forgot to add: "Wal-Mart is where it's at!"

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    it is and probably the only one in the world making money at the moment

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