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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart has been providing every day low prices to customers since its inception.

  1. Wal-Mart is very huge and successful:

    Wal-Mart is the leading retailer in the United States of America; Wal-Mart is successful because they provide people with what they want. They are also the largest retailer and most respected in the United States. Wal-Mart is also the largest employer in the US after the Federal Government.
  2. Employees enjoy benefits:

    Even though Wal-Mart employees doesn't have the best fringe benefits in the nation, some employees consider the benefits offered, reasonable. Wal-Mart offers more than 50 different benefits that are divided into four categories for employees.
  3. Wal-Mart has many customers:

    Wal-Mart attracts millions of customers each week. Many shoppers choose to buy the store brands due to low prices. In fact, many shoppers are beginning to do grocery shopping at Wal-Mart steadily; they find the prices very competitive to supermarkets.
  4. How old is Wal-Mart?:

    The birth of Wal-Mart was on July 2, 1962 in Arkansas.
  5. Wal-Mart also operates Sam's Club:

    Wal-Mart operates Sam's Club, which is a chain of warehouses that sells groceries and general merchandise, often in large quantities or volume. Just like “Costco Stores”, Sam's Club stores are "membership" stores and customers pay for annual membership.
  6. Label Brands:

    At the time of this writing, approximately 40% of products sold in Wal-Mart are private label store brands. Some products offered by Wal-Mart and produced through subsidized contracts usually awarded to the lowest bidder.
  7. Wal-Mart attracts customers daily:

    Every week approximately 100 million customers in the United States visits and shops at Wal-Mart stores. Most customers shop there due to every day low prices.
  8. New Slogan for Wal-Mart:

    Wal-Mart introduced their new slogan on September 12, 2007. Their new slogan is "Save Money Live Better”, which replaced “Always low prices”.
  9. Wal-Mart Diversity:

    There are seven so-called Business Resource Groups at Wal-Mart; the group consists of Asians, Native American, Hispanics, African-Americans women, Gay and Lesbians and a disabled group.
  10. Wal-Mart competitors:

    • Target (USA)
    • K- Mart (USA)
    • ShopKo (USA)
    • Meijer (USA)
    • Zellers (Canada)
    • Winners (Canada)
    • Giant Target(Canada)
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Comments (5)
#1 by Carl Ellington, Sep 24, 2007
I like the way you organise your information.
cool beans!
#2 by Greta, Sep 30, 2007
You're doing a good job Mr. P. Brown.

That's really cool!
#3 by Peter A. Brown, Oct 1, 2007
Thank you Greta. Your encouragement is appreciated.
#4 by Shaun D, Oct 1, 2007
Very good sir. My wife shops a lot at Wal-Mart; I'm not sure whether she knows these facts though.
#5 by MB, Oct 4, 2007
INVOLUABLE INFORMATION.THANKS, PETER.
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