how big is walmart?

[Hannah Bell]

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

[rurallib]

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.

[Hannah Bell]

13. i believe they'd be around number 25.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)

[FarLeftFist]

2. Is Wal-Mart too big to fail?

[ThomWV]

3. That isn't the problem at all - its that they are too influential to tax, that's the problem.

[bamacrat]

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.

[Steely_Dan]

4. Have You Noticed...

They have the most commercials on television right now. This will only further their domination.

-P

[ThatsMyBarack]

6. I made a complaint about that recently.

I still stand by it.

[Fleshdancer]

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.

[Hannah Bell]

7. lots of walmat lovers here, judging from the unrecs. we love our monopolies.

[arcadian]

9. The ole DU ain't what she used to be.

[Echo In Light]

11. Stop being so "negative," and picking on poor ol Hellmart!

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. Yesterday I walked into a Wal Mart for the 1st time in years. i got the hell out

It was awful.

[CatholicEdHead]

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".

[Hannah Bell]

14. k