Is Wal-Mart Destroying America? 20 Facts About Wal-Mart That Will Absolutely Shock You

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The following are facts about Wal-Mart that will absolutely shock you….


#3 If Wal-Mart was a nation, it would have the 23rd largest GDP in the world.

#5 Amazingly, 100 million customers shop at Wal-Mart every single week.

#8 If Wal-Mart was an army, it would be the second largest military on the planet behind China.

#9 Wal-Mart is the largest employer in 25 different U.S. states.

#10 Trade between Wal-Mart and China resulted in the loss of 133,000 manufacturing jobs in the United States between 2001 and 2006.

#11 The CEO of Wal-Mart makes more in a single hour than a full-time Wal-Mart associate makes in an entire year.

#12 Tens of thousands of Wal-Mart employees and their children are enrolled in Medicaid and are dependent on the government for healthcare.

#14 Sadly, about 85 percent of all the products sold at Wal-Mart are made outside of the United States.

#15 It is being reported that about 80 percent of all Wal-Mart suppliers are in China at this point.

#17 The number of “independent retailers” in the United States declined by 60,000 between 1992 and 2007.

#20 The combined net worth of six members of the Walton family is roughly equal to the combined net worth of the poorest 30 percent of all Americans.

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