[AT] Jobs/ Stores

[charles bridges]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Rotigel" <rotigel at me.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Jobs/ Stores


> 
> 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! 
>  

Hey, I'll drink to that last statement!!!!!!!!!