Wall-Mart and Other Facts!

[ken0069]

Received this via Email today but didn't fact check it so keep that in mind. Some of it is a rerun of some previous Emails I've gotten but still a point to be made every day to keep it fresh in our memory. And BTW, I did send this to both my US Senators and my Representative in Congress!

Wal-Mart, and other facts!

Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of every day.

This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!

Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.

Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.

Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the world's largest private employer, and most speak English.

Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.

Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.

During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.

Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.

Wal-Mart has approximately 3,900 stores in the USA of which 2,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.

This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)

90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart has gross sales that total more than the total revenue of all the countries in the world, except six.

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.


This should be read and understood by all Americans, Democrats,
Republicans, everyone!!

To the President and all 535 voting members of the Legislature, in both parties;

It is now official! You are all corrupt morons:

The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775, you have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.

Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.

Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.

War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.

Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.

Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.

The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.

You have failed in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars. And you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system?

You think you can run the auto industry? The banking system?

Maybe we ought to kick your egg-head buddy bums out of office and hire Wal-Mart to run the government. Wal-Mart seems to know how to run a business. Why don't you guys just admit it's way beyond your pay grade and quit?

"You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out."

[TheYellaBrick]

HERE HERE, my good chap, here here !

2012 is THE most CRITICAL year in our nations history....EDUCATE YOURSELF and VOTE the bastards out !

[outlaw256]

hell yea, im going to wal mart!!

[roadkill2]

If you vote for the incumbent, you're part of the problem . . . .

[outlaw256]

not me buddy, im a felon!!!

[Harbone]

not me buddy, im a felon!!!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[outlaw256]

yea, i kinda liked that answer too! lol

[Scooterz]

Ken:

Just lie on the app & they will hire you. You could be a greeter. "Hi, my name is Outlaw; take a shopping cart & get your cheap-azz out of my face".... YA WALMARTIAN.

[outlaw256]

hi my names outlaw, did you know cause your buyin all this china crap you put some of my friends out of work!!!now take your fuc--- cart and put some more americans out of work.do your part for obama, howa that scooter?lol

[roadkill2]

Y'know, I gotta step in here, because the last two remarks are addressing a falserhood . . Wal Mart is far from the worst seller of Chinese imports . .

Those honors go to Best Buy (92%), Home Depot (78%), and Lowes (71%), then there's a whole bunch of smaller chains (a lot of auto parts stores, believe it or don't) before you find Wal Mart in the list. I think the last stat involving Wal Mart's sale of Chinese Imports was at 41% of their normal inventories.

Wal Mart actually prides itself in the fact that they mark and sell "American" . .

And for a lot of the hobbyist gearheads who buy tools and all that other neat shit from (?) Harbor Freight, whose Inventory is 99.7% Chinese made . . . and a lot of the tools are priced below even the cost of Chinese labor . . This is called Dumping but your Congress and President won't do a damned thing about it!

I don't want to start a war or a pissing match, but there's opinions and then there's facts . .

[TheYellaBrick]

I've also seen these stats as far as WallyWorld is concerned. The others do not surprise me however. WW seems like it has a larger percentage because they stock so much of a very wide variety.

'Kill, do you have a link to the stats on those other stores and their % of chinese junk ?

[outlaw256]

i hate to inform you roadkill but you arent tellin anyone anything new.most stores today all have a high inventory of chinese junk. but we were talkin about wal mart not any other store on this thread. it was meant as a joke. now about those links....

[roadkill2]

Outlaw, I hope I don't don't appear to be talking down or preaching, but I see the same stuff in eMails, forums and other place where people discuss and cuss things. Problem with "joking" about it is the inherent problem people have with perception. They read or hear the first 20% of a statement and whatever that is, they jump on it and repeat it . . I just make it a point of disclaiming it as it comes up . . hoping that they'll read a little farther into the discussion.

The "Sound Bite" is what got the Country where it's at today. It's why we have Barack Obama as President, and it's the reason our Congress is full of Dickheads that have been there for 20-30 years and couldn't care less about those who vote for them . .

From 1960 to about 1990, my life was concerned about Racing, Race Cars and Hot Rods . . Didn't really give Politics a hard look . . just voted, sometimes stupidly . .

But as a business owner, and later as an executive in a construction company which did business for the Government, I have become fully aware that we (My Generation) have allowed our Constitutional System to be hijacked by a liberal minority who seeks no less than to socialize your country and take away your right to race, breed, or be successful in any manner . . .

Ken's eMail is pretty spot on . . read it and heed it!

Driving, most of my stats are accumulated from corporate statements and different sources. I'm an old Car Artist who is involved in several forums and I keep a "Folder" full of stats that I dig through to form replies. In most of them I can provide links, but a lot of them are available through Wikipedia when googling a specific corporation.

And by the way . . still racing and still designing and doing art on cars, after all, I'm only 70 . . And anybody in Pomona next week can look at a little Orange Roadster that'll be there . . It's not a typical AMBR car and isn't competing as such . . But it's a good example of "Old School DeLuxe" and the detail will make you stop and look for quite a while . . . It was a four year project with a lot of design detail that the owner and I worked on . . with a lot of help from a whole bunch of talented people . . .

[RonOwensRacing]

Ken's post was on how walmart runs as a business not what type of merchandise they sell .

[ghustler]

Yes they run a very successful business but so was "Ma Bell" until the government broke them up to give others a chance and thats what should happen to Walmart.

[outlaw256]

dont agree with that. the govern ment has no buisness getting involved. they busted up ma bell and what happenend your phone bills went straight up. and service went down.my family has worked for ma since the very beginning. there is alot more to it than the monopoly slant.so i quess there is no need to run a biusness and grow because you did something right because then the government will just come and bust you up. or should they justv give it back to the people.if you want wal mart to stop then just dont spend your money with them. they cant grow without money.tell your freinds not to spend there. after awhile they will stop growing and start to decline. american way.called capitalism.

[Incognegro]

Yes they run a very successful business but so was "Ma Bell" until the government broke them up to give others a chance and thats what should happen to Walmart.

Are you suggesting the Government sticks their nose in a successful business and ruins it just like they did our country?

[roadkill2]

Yes they run a very successful business but so was "Ma Bell" until the government broke them up to give others a chance and thats what should happen to Walmart.

There's a couple of things unstated here . . or mis-understood. The "Government", per se, didn't "Break Up" Ma Bell. The court did because . . IT WAS A LEGAL MONOPLY that had begun to stifle even R & D by companies outside the Communications business. It is, perhaps, one of the oddities of our laws. Utilities can monopolize, but only to a point, and it becomes the duties of state created utility commissions and the courts to decide where that line in the sand exists. Ma Bell had become a totally self stustained company. They were their own R & D company, their own equipment supplier, their own construction company(s), etc. Thus the courts said that they were an all inclusive Monoply and had to divest. I believe that it was the "Commerce Clause" that was used in the winning arguments, because of AT&T's totality of interstate monoply.

And, in a way it was good, in another, it set a precedent that wasn't good for the county, looking back. The one good thing that came from the divestment of AT&T was the mobile (or cell) phone. AT&T fought the concept because of their investment in physical infrastructure (Lines, Poles, etc) knowing, that at some time in the future, physical connections would become a thing of the past. However with cable broadband, they still reap millions of dollars in rent for just the poles that the cable is hung on.

Wal Mart, on the other hand, is nowhere close to being a monoply. Thus, there is no need to even consider any court action to divest or shut down. Actually, even the courts don't have the power to shut down a corporate business unless they can prove criminality in it's operation(s).

[ghustler]

I don't know where your at but Walmart closed down every mom and pop store in the area and thats a fact.
Walmart is a monopoly bully.

[lively]

I don't know where your at but Walmart closed down every mom and pop store in the area and thats a fact.
Walmart is a monopoly bully.

very true with all 10 in my area!!!! :(
PLUS--THEY GET COMPLETE TAX BREAKS AND SUBSIDIES THE LOCAL BUSINESS ARE NOT ALLOWED :shock: :shock:

[roadkill2]

I don't know where your at but Walmart closed down every mom and pop store in the area and thats a fact.
Walmart is a monopoly bully.

very true with all 10 in my area!!!! :(
PLUS--THEY GET COMPLETE TAX BREAKS AND SUBSIDIES THE LOCAL BUSINESS ARE NOT ALLOWED :shock: :shock:

Obviously you don't understand what a "Monoply" is . .

If the "Mom and Pop's" were competive price wise, they wouldn't have gone out of business. And it was Mom and Pop's friends who put them out of business, because the friends chose to trade at Wal Mart instead of Mom n' Pop . . and if the Mom n' Pop carry niche items, they'll do better business with a Wal Mart in the area . . seen that happen locally . .

The tax breaks are there for anyone who qualifies to use them.

Subsidies? Don't think so . . you'll have to tell me what subsidies Wal Mart receives from either local, state or federal government . .

This is all part of a myth that constantly circulates about any business that does better than the next . . especially if the other one is a corporation . . it's part of Obama's class war . .

[lively]

walmart gets no taxes for 9 years from my city---no cost on any entrance road and no cost on any utilities running to their building

just so you know i have builders that work for me that also did their work
also my fellow speedshop owner is on this city board and that was the agreement given them--IT IS NOT APPROVED FOR ANY EXISTING -MOM AN POP STORE
MY MOTHERS BUSINESS[FABRIC STORE WAS COMPETING AGAINST THESE FOOLS AND THEY KEPT CUTTING PRICES AGAINST ALL THE SMALL BUSINESSES TILL THE MOM AN POPS WENT UNDER---THEN YOUR FRIENDLY WALMART QUIT HANDLING FABRICS AND THE TYPE OF SPORTING GOODS THEY BROKE UP---DO NOT PATRONISE ME LIKE I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THEIR CROOKED DEALINGS

I HAVE BEEN PUTTING UP

BUILDINGS FOR OVER 40 YEARS AND DO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN MY AREA :?

WALMART IS CROOKED DOWN TO THE CORE -PERIOD 8)

[outlaw256]

roadkill youm almost got it on ma bell but not all of it.its a really long story so when i have time i will send it to you. anyway just for shits and giggles i still think they should have been allowed to do what ever the hell they want,they were the smart ones.i do have one question . why should a telephone company be made to allow other companies to use their lines. ma bell strung the hard lines and then everyother company could in the long run use ma bells lines.but i do agree with you on the walmart thing.even thou i do miss the mom and pop stores and even REAL parts stores. it who has the most that wins.

[roadkill2]

walmart gets no taxes for 9 years from my city---no cost on any entrance road and no cost on any utilities running to their building

just so you know i have builders that work for me that also did their work
also my fellow speedshop owner is on this city board and that was the agreement given them--IT IS NOT APPROVED FOR ANY EXISTING -MOM AN POP STORE
MY MOTHERS BUSINESS[FABRIC STORE WAS COMPETING AGAINST THESE FOOLS AND THEY KEPT CUTTING PRICES AGAINST ALL THE SMALL BUSINESSES TILL THE MOM AN POPS WENT UNDER---THEN YOUR FRIENDLY WALMART QUIT HANDLING FABRICS AND THE TYPE OF SPORTING GOODS THEY BROKE UP---DO NOT PATRONISE ME LIKE I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THEIR CROOKED DEALINGS

I HAVE BEEN PUTTING UP

BUILDINGS FOR OVER 40 YEARS AND DO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN MY AREA :?

WALMART IS CROOKED DOWN TO THE CORE -PERIOD 8)

Lessee, I've worked as a City planner and Grant writer . . I've also held a "B" Contractor's License in 5 cities in Colorado, Salt lake City, Utah and Clark County, NV, been a Project manager, Contract Administrator and VP of a Construction company until retirement. (My Qualification for opinion)

Any Corporation will come into a community asking for tax deferments, deferment from tap fees, etc . . That's one of the bigger reasons that they locate there, you town wants them! Your "opinion" would make Lockheed/Martin/Northrup or Honeywell just as "crooked as Wal Mart, I guess . . Of course your community would welcome a Wal Mart Warehouse or Sam's Distribution Center, or an Apple Assembly Plant, and they'd ask for the same (or more) deferments . . It's "Competition" for those businesses and if your Town or City Council didn't offer them, the big companies would pass on your town and go someplace else. And then you'd really be pissed . .

It was your buddy on the City Council or zoning board that agreed to give any business coming into your town/city those deferments.

A business is neither crooked or illegal to ask for and receive deferments and tax breaks to bring employment and a "Down the road" revenue source to a city or town . . It's the little guys and small businesses that make up the difference in revenues when the deferments are given. In theory, it's to provide for a gain in employment in a town/city that's suffering from stagnation and low employment figures. Planners estimate that every job gained affects 7 jobs already in the community, to the good. That maight be arguable, but we know that if Joe, currently unemployed, gets a paycheck that's bigger than his current un-employment check that he's getting, more money gets spent in the community . . nothing wrong with that1

Now . . The niche store has to see what a Wal Mart, Costco, K Mart, etc doesn't sell or doesn't sell the quality products buyers want and put that out there . . Three Blocks from the South side Wal Mart where I live is a little "True Value" Hardware Store . . and it thrives, simply because it handles the stuff you can't buy at either Wal Mart or the Lowes a little further up the street . .

Or, another example, Tropical Fish. Where I live, there's two Wal marts, a PetSmart and a Petco. At one time, all of them sold tropical fish and Aquarium supplies. Currently, there's five small businesses that specialize in tropical fish thriving and PetSmart is the only big store that still even tries to compete . . So your theory that these big Box stores put "Mom n' Pops" out of business doesn't hold a lot of water . .

Nobody badmouths Circle Ks or 7/11s . . which actually did more to kill the little neighborhood grocery store, dime store and gas station than Wal Mart or any of the big stores have, and they did it 20 years before Wal Mart built their first store in Arkansas . .

I'd bet you buy from Summit and Jeg's instead of that little place down the street because the big online guys have everything, and it's all cheaper and they can mail it to you quicker than the local speed shop can get it . . If you do, you're part of the problem . .

[roadkill2]

roadkill youm almost got it on ma bell but not all of it.its a really long story so when i have time i will send it to you. anyway just for shits and giggles i still think they should have been allowed to do what ever the hell they want,they were the smart ones.i do have one question . why should a telephone company be made to allow other companies to use their lines. ma bell strung the hard lines and then everyother company could in the long run use ma bells lines.but i do agree with you on the walmart thing.even thou i do miss the mom and pop stores and even REAL parts stores. it who has the most that wins.

Well, Ma Bell and most of the Power Companies still make out like bandits . . Although the FCC decreed that they had to allow other communications companies use their infrastructure, according to one source who works for Comcast, Comcast, for example, pays $6 a year for each and every pole they hang a cable or box off of, as does anyone else using their poles . . Sooo, they didn't come out too bad . . And, like I said, It wasn't all bad because cell technology would have happened a lot slower . .

The "Mom n' Pop" stores were a thing of the times. Back when I was a kid, lot's of people didn't drive much. A trip "to Town" or "Downtown" wasn't something that we did with the frequency we do now. So the "Neighborhood Stores" were within walking distance, and did much of what the 7/11 does now . . except for the "Charge Account' or the "fresh meat" that the little store "on the corner" had . .

There's things about modern corporate commodity supply that really grinds my grits . . Your (and my) Beef supply, comes from pretty much the same place, no matter where you live. If some dipshit in Kentucky or Texas doesn't clean his machine, everyone in 20 states that ate the hamburger he ground gets sick . . See, it ain't Wal Mart that bothers me as much as it's TYSON and Alliance Beef or Iowa Beef Packers. Great big companies that pack and prepare our wholesale food supply . . things like that . .

Just sayin' . . .

[lively]

I'd bet you buy from Summit and Jeg's instead of that little place down the street because the big online guys have everything, and it's all cheaper and they can mail it to you quicker than the local speed shop can get it . . If you do, you're part of the

NO I DO NOT BUY FROM ELSEWHERE IF MY LOCAL SHOP CAN GET IT--

roadkill--you are talking out of your rear again---welcome to ILLINOIS politics

CORROPTION IS THE NAME OF THE GAME -PERIOD----COME HERE AND TRY TO STAY IN BUSINESS--YOU WILL FAIL MISERABLY---JUST SAYING YOU KNOW :oops:

[roadkill2]

I'd bet you buy from Summit and Jeg's instead of that little place down the street because the big online guys have everything, and it's all cheaper and they can mail it to you quicker than the local speed shop can get it . . If you do, you're part of the

NO I DO NOT BUY FROM ELSEWHERE IF MY LOCAL SHOP CAN GET IT--

roadkill--you are talking out of your rear again---welcome to ILLINOIS politics

CORROPTION IS THE NAME OF THE GAME -PERIOD----COME HERE AND TRY TO STAY IN BUSINESS--YOU WILL FAIL MISERABLY---JUST SAYING YOU KNOW :oops:

You're assuming things you really shouldn't . . My kid runs a local speed shop, so he gets a lion's share of our business . . Some stuff he doesn't want to mess with so we get that from, usually, Summit or the manufacturer . . But I seldom buy from O'reilly or any of those chains either . . generally they don't have what I need or want. That being said, if you choose to stay in Illinois, the least you can do is not act like you are . . heh, heh . . all in jest . .

Truthfully, if you live in Illinois, you do have my sympathy. There are few places in the USA that is as corrupt as the City of Chicago, the County of Cook and the State of Illinois, maybe Louisana is a close second . . But you guys have donated more Politicians to the jail house than most other states HAVE politicians . . Y'know, if you didn't elect crooks, you wouldn't have to send them to jail . . !

[lively]

belive me i did not vote for one of our LICENSE PLATE WORKERS--SORRY-GOVERNORS :lol: :lol:

[outlaw256]

well roadkill youm can talk a good game but there are so many holes in what you say.but it has been fun.

[TheYellaBrick]

WalMart has a scazillion stores world wide and every town they built in has a different and unique story to tell of their WalMart experience.

[roadkill2]

well roadkill youm can talk a good game but there are so many holes in what you say.but it has been fun.

Whatchootalkinaboutwillis?