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23 Astonishing Walmart Facts That'll Amaze You!

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The Trojan Horse is a tale from the Trojan War about the ploy that the Greeks used to enter the city of Troy and win the war. After a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greeks constructed a huge wooden horse, and hid a select force of men inside. The Greeks left the wooden image and pretended to sail away.  When the Trojans found the massive horse on the beach, they pulled it into their city as a victory trophy. That night the elite Greek force silently crept out of the horse and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek army, which had sailed back under cover of night. The Greeks entered and destroyed the city of Troy, decisively ending the war.

Is it possible that their lies within our own cities an object or institution, seen and embraced by the people as a benefit, that is actually leading and will lead to the demise of a population that once hailed the slogans “every day low prices” and  “save money, live better,” as a helping hand from swirling financial woes?

I’ll leave you to answer that question in your own mind.  For now

Here are 23 fascinating facts about Walmart most people probably don’t know and it may be a good idea if they did:

  1.  If Walmart were a country, it would be the 26th largest economy in the world
  2. Walmart has 2.2 Million employees, more than the population of the city of Houston and seven times the population of Iceland
  3. Walmart’s yearly net sales hover around ½ TRILLION dollars, That’s more than Argntina’s entire GDP
  4. 90% if Americans live within 15 minutes of a Walmart store
  5. Between Walmart’s opening in 1962 and 2002, the number of single store retailers in the U.S. declined 55%
  6. Back in 2012 Walmart opened between 4 and 5 new stores every week
  7. The Walton family is worth 150 BILLION dollars.  About as much as Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Michael Bloomberg combined.
  8. The average Walmart supercenter sells about 140,000 individual items
  9. 35 MILLION people shop at Walmart every day, as much as the entire population of Canada
  10. Walmart operates internationally under 55 different names, including Walmex in Mexico, Asda in the UK, Seiyu in Japan, and Best Price in India.
  11. This year, everyone in the world will make an average of 1.1 purchases at Walmart
  12. Each week, nearly 1/3rd of the American Population visits Walmart’s U.S. Stores
  13. China’s exports to Walmart accounted for 11% of the growth of the total U.S. Trade deficit with China between 2001 and 2006
  14. Walmart is the largest overall employer in the USA and the biggest in 25 states
  15. If Walmart’s more than 8500 stores where put in one place, they would take up more than 32 square miles – as much as 15,300 football fields
  16. Walmart parking lots alone take up roughly the size of Tampa Florida.
  17. Walmart has teamed up with the Department of Homeland Security, to keep an eye on people entering and leaving their properties
  18. Walmart is set to install facial recognition technology for security and customer identification
  19. 5 Walmart stores in several states suddenly closed without warning on April 13th 2015, laying off more than 2,200 unsuspecting employees for six months due to alleged plumbing problems.
  20. The average Walmart store nets about $160,000 per day.  Times 5 Stores, times 6 months is a 144 MILLION dollars worth of lost revenue in that six months of closure.
  21. Once the foundation is poured it takes an average of 8 to 18 weeks to build a brand new walmart, depending on weather conditions.  And they’re going to take 6 months to fix plumbing problems?
  22. Walmart stores collectively profit from nearly $7.8 billion per year in federal subsidies and tax breaks.  Which means that tax payers contribute almost 8 billion per year to Walmart’s existence outside of retail store sales.  For more information see the link in the description below.
  23. Walmart’s 5 store closings coincide with a Military Operation known as Jade Helm 15 in which special armed forces are to conduct realistic military training exercises through which some believe, will usher in the enactment of martial law in the U.S. For more information on Jade Helm and how it could affect you click this link and it’ll open a tab in a new window.  

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    • NWO for Dummies.

      Walmart – wall to wall Asian slave labour and American employees not much better

    • doggy do

      Here’s another fact: they’re not FEMA camps. They’re bad places to shop and work, but FEMA doesn’t store military armor in the basement.

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