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[David Rotigel]

On Jan 26, 2010, at 6:15 AM, Ron Cook wrote:

> I don't like any of it.  We have all paid a huge price.  Savings at
> Walmart and Harbor Freight won't bring it back, because it is not
> savings at all.   As far as I am concerned, things went all to heck  
> with
> the advent of Sesame Street.
> Ron Cook
This just came from another list.

WAL-MART

1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart 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 speak 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, and  
keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.

8. During this same period, 31 Supermarket Chains sought bankruptcy.

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. You may  
think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work  
for suggesting that

MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy  
because the idiots in Washington sure can't do it!