14 Facts About Wal-Mart That Will Blow Your Mind

[Svnla]

Ok, no political comments here, just facts.


25 applications for every job @ WM?


http://www.businessinsider.com/facts-about-wal-mart-2014-6#ixzz33sByUU6l


More stuffs about WM (things you can buy that you did not think you could) = http://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/oh-walmart-never-stop?bffb

 

[eelw]

The bananas fact interesting.

 

[DaTT]

Canada has more than 2.35 million people

 

[darkewaffle]

4-5 stores opening every week in 2012 is pretty insane. They're actually planning on putting a new one in not far from me and it hasn't even broken ground yet but won't be open until 2017 iirc.

 

[KeithTalent]

Canada has more than 2.35 million people

Haha, good one.

35 million is a lot of peeps though.

KT

 

[kranky]

Canada has more than 2.35 million people

No, that was ITEM 2 on the list, not "2.35"

Item 2 says that 35 million people shop at Walmart every day, as much as the population of Canada, eh.

 

[mnewsham]

I'm one of the lucky 10%. Closest walmart is 29 minutes away. Two targets and a costco within 10-15 minutes though...

 

[Sonikku]

4-5 new stores opened every single week! Wow.

Once the off shoring of jobs is complete, Americans everywhere will be free to become part of the Wal Mart family. Then all Americans everywhere will truly be united as one. :'(

 

[Linflas]

4-5 new stores opened every single week! Wow.

Once the off shoring of jobs is complete, Americans everywhere will be free to become part of the Wal Mart family. Then all Americans everywhere will truly be united as one. :'(

Not so fast...

http://www.economist.com/news/leade...jobs-faraway-places-wane-will-not-solve-wests

http://www.clresearch.com/research/detail.cfm?guid=0679757B-3048-79ED-9991-E087887A811C

http://www.theatlantic.com/business...ying-about-offshoring-and-outsourcing/274388/

 

[Blackjack200]

No, that was ITEM 2 on the list, not "2.35"

Item 2 says that 35 million people shop at Walmart every day, as much as the population of Canada, eh.

Haha, good one.

35 million is a lot of peeps though.

KT

I think KT is right, he was trollin. Good troll though

 

[Carson Dyle]

I had no idea that the population of Canada was only 35 million.

 

[Schfifty Five]

4-5 new stores opened every single week! Wow.

Once the off shoring of jobs is complete, Americans everywhere will be free to become part of the Wal Mart family. Then all Americans everywhere will truly be united as one. :'(

In 2012.

 

[Printer Bandit]

i welcome the wally world overloads.

 

[waggy]

The bananas fact interesting.

yeah i was surprised at that. but i have to admit bananas are always in our cart when i go shopping.

 

[Markbnj]

Haha, good one.

35 million is a lot of peeps though.

KT

That's like NY and LA put together, with some Chicago thrown in.

If we moved the border north a hundred miles Canada would have six people left, all hairy men with beer breath.

Edit: bananas... they're counting individual bananas? I wonder if they count individual cans of soda, or individual marshmallows. Something about that stat smells.

 

[smackababy]

Not a single one of those facts blows my mind. Guess I am just not easily impressed.

 

[theknight571]

I live within 15 minutes of 3 Wal-Mart supercenters.

 

[DrPizza]

Ahhhhhhh, it all makes sense now. I see all those "people of Walmart" photos and think, "we don't have idiots like that around here." I'm among the 10% of people who doesn't have a Walmart within 15 minutes or even 15 miles.

 

[waggy]

Edit: bananas... they're counting individual bananas? I wonder if they count individual cans of soda, or individual marshmallows. Something about that stat smells.

ohh if they count individual bananas yeah i guess it would make sense

 

[momeNt]

They sold more more UNITS (pounds) of bananas than any other item in the store.

24pack of coke is 1 unit of 1 24-pack of coke. A unit of 6pack of coke does not count towards that same stat.

Bananas are bananas, but apples are jonagold, jazz, grannysmith, etc.

I thought ATOT had a better understanding of retail stats. Guess not.

 

[Pardus]

Every Walmart has 15 checkout lines but only 2 are open at time.

 

[Alienwho]

I live within 15 minutes of 3 Wal-Mart supercenters.

I live in the center of Salt Lake Valley (about 15 minutes south of down town Salt Lake City) and I live within 15 minutes of at least 14 wal marts. Half of which are probably supercenters. This is 14 wal marts in an area that is about 6 miles wide and 20 miles long.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Every Walmart has 15 checkout lines but only 2 are open at time.

Depends on the time of day or night. At the nearby Supercenter, I've seen every checkout lane open and backed up five deep on a Saturday afternoon.

But I'm more likely to go grocery shopping at 3 or 4 AM, since we have the Walmarts and a couple of other grocery stores open 24 hrs. At 4 AM, nearly always, the guy manning the one checkout lane at Walmart is a really nice fellow, but he has just one arm.

 

[DrPizza]

Every Walmart has 15 checkout lines but only 2 are open at time.

Hence why I go to Kmart, if the item I need can be found there. It's usually the same price too, except for the Kmart $xx.99 vs. Walmart's $xx.96.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

everyone should grow their own bananas. That would really be sticking it to the walton family. They would end up being only as rich as bill gates and warren buffett combined. I would feel sorry for them then.