Oh yeah, lack of a WalMart was keeping us holed up in our houses. This is going to be great, we'll be getting in better shape now as we walk around the WalMart parking lot looking for our cars. This thoroughly unoriginal tenant will make St. Anthony like thousands of identical American suburbs.
From a Dec. 2003 story at Fast Company: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html
Wal-Mart is not just the world's largest retailer. It's the world's largest company--bigger than ExxonMobil, General Motors, and General Electric. The scale can be hard to absorb. Wal-Mart sold $244.5 billion worth of goods last year. It sells in three months what number-two retailer Home Depot sells in a year. And in its own category of general merchandise and groceries, Wal-Mart no longer has any real rivals. It does more business than Target, Sears, Kmart, J.C. Penney, Safeway, and Kroger combined.
CD:
To put this in perspective, here's a list of nations with GDP (in billions) less than WalMart sales recipts.
Indonesia 215.93 Denmark 207.44 Turkey 191.17 South Africa 175.90 Thailand 174.97 Finland 173.56 Norway 172.91 Poland 165.27 Hong Kong 164.63 Greece 144.77 Saudi Arabia 143.88 Portugal 131.88 Iran 127.13 Ireland 112.91 Malaysia 112.21 Singapore 112.02 Nigeria 110.21 Israel 107.30
Conor Donnelly 01-02 Waitepark
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