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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-03-09 08:29 AM
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how big is walmart?
revenues:

pennys: 18 billion
sears: 23 billion
macys: 24 billion
lowe's: 48 billion
target: 64 billion
home depot: 71 billion


Walmart = bigger than all of them combined.

walmart: 404 billion in revenues
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-03-09 08:49 AM
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1. any idea where they would rank vs. some country economies?
They must be bigger than many small countries.
Or bigger than many US states.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-03-09 04:11 PM
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13. i believe they'd be around number 25.
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FarLeftFist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-03-09 09:44 AM
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2. Is Wal-Mart too big to fail?
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-03-09 09:47 AM
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3. That isn't the problem at all - its that they are too influential to tax, that's the problem.
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bamacrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-03-09 09:53 AM
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5. Too many poor people for them to fail.
If we were all rich and could afford to shop elsewhere they would be in trouble. Whats odd is that in China shopping at Wal-Mart is a status symbol. Here its a necessity for low income people.
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Steely_Dan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-03-09 09:50 AM
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4. Have You Noticed...
They have the most commercials on television right now. This will only further their domination.

-P
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ThatsMyBarack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-03-09 10:10 AM
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6. I made a complaint about that recently.
I still stand by it.
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-03-09 03:27 PM
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8. I made that observation recently
It's not just the massive amounts of ad time on the networks, they also created a ton of different types of commercials. It's not unusual to see 2 different walmart ads in a single commercial cycle during prime time network television these days that target different demographics.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-03-09 03:21 PM
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7. lots of walmat lovers here, judging from the unrecs. we love our monopolies.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-03-09 03:29 PM
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9. The ole DU ain't what she used to be.
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-03-09 03:33 PM
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11. Stop being so "negative," and picking on poor ol Hellmart!
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-03-09 03:30 PM
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10. Yesterday I walked into a Wal Mart for the 1st time in years. i got the hell out
It was awful.
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-03-09 04:02 PM
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12. Much of that comes from nickle and diming their employees
The lowest employees struggle and "sacrifice" for the highest up in the country. It is all about "The Company".
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-03-09 09:10 PM
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14. k
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