It goes without saying that Walmart is nothing short of a business behemoth. It’s the world’s largest retailer and also the world’s largest grocer, with food and other grocery items accounting for more than half of all U.S. sales. Whether you’re a regular shopper or a critic who believes that Walmart stands for everything that’s wrong with America, there are some things you probably dont know about the food they sell. The numbers relating to Walmart, which began its life as a 5 & 10 store in Arkansas in 1950, are nothing short of mild-boggling. There are more than 4,000 Walmart locations in the U.S. and more than 6,000 outside our borders. The company brought in $476 billion in revenue in 2013 and $16 billion in net profit. 140 million shoppers visit U.S. Walmarts every week, equivalent to about 44 percent of the American population. It’s the nation’s largest private sector employer, with nearly 1.5 million employees domestically and 2.2 million globally. 1. Bananas are the best-selling item 2. They donated food for 100,000 meals after Hurricane Katrina 3. They’re the biggest seller of organic milk in the world 4. They donated 571 million pounds of food in 2013 5. They work with more than 1 million small and medium-sized farms foxnews/leisure/2014/12/30/things-didnt-know-about-food-at-walmart/?intcmp=features
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 19:13:07 +0000
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