WalMart stats 2001: (no link to source. I found this
over a year ago.)
Annual sales: $220 billion
Number of employees worldwide: 1.28 million
Number of stores worldwide: 4,382
Supercenters: 1,060
Sam's Clubs: 495
New stores opening in 2002: 420
Number of suppliers: 30,000
U.S. state with the most Wal-Marts: Texas (316)
State with the fewest: Vermont (4)
Value today of 100 shares of Wal-Mart stock, purchased in 1970 at the offering price of $16.50 per share: $11.5 million
Rank of Wal-Mart among all retailers in annual grocery sales in the United States: 1
Rank in jewelry sales: 1
Percentage of Procter & Gamble's (PG) $40 billion in annual sales accounted for by Wal-Mart: 15
Number of pallets transported by Wal-Mart trucks each week: 50 million
Estimated number of hot dogs sold each year in Wal-Mart snack bars: 70 million
Percentage of dry dog food sold in the United States (outside of pet stores) that is purchased in Wal-Mart stores: 35
Percentage of toothpaste that is purchased in Wal-Mart stores: 24
Total square miles of Wal-Mart's occupied retail space: 18.3
Number of years, at current growth rates, until retail space equals the land area of Manhattan: 5
Terabytes of data in Wal-Mart's data warehouse in Bentonville: 500
Terabytes in the data warehouse of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service: 40
Megawatt-hours of energy consumed last year by Wal-Mart stores: 7.8 million
Annual megawatt-hours generated by the Hoover Dam: 4 million
Annual advertising expenditures: $498 million
Metric tons of gold purchased annually for Wal-Mart by its suppliers: 18.4
Number of Olympic-size swimming pools that could be filled with baby food sold annually in Wal-Mart stores: 58
Typical starting hourly wage of a Wal-Mart associate: $6.50
Estimated value of goods Wal-Mart employees steal from Wal-Mart stores each year: $1 billion
Estimated value of goods stolen by shoplifters: $700 million
All-time one-day sales record (Nov. 23, 2001): $1.25 billion
Number of Wal-Mart-owned Learjets: 18
Number of Wal-Mart pilots: 60
Number of Wal-Mart employees in China: 4,000
Number of children recovered through Wal-Mart's Missing Children's Boards since the program began in 1996: 50
Estimated annual sales of the 850 McDonald's (MCD) that operate inside Wal-Mart stores: $1.3 billion
Number of daily customers at Wal-Mart stores worldwide: 15.7 million
Number of unique daily visitors at Walmart.com: 450,000
Items stocked by a typical Wal-Mart Supercenter: 100,000
Items stocked by Walmart.com: 600,000
Top-selling book on Walmart.com, January 2002: Journey Through Heartsongs, by Mattie J.T. Stepanek
Top-selling CD: Weathered, by Creed
Wal-Mart's projected market capitalization in 2020: $11.1 trillion
Top 10 best-selling products in 2001*
(Sales in millions)
Videotapes and DVDs: $1,556
Diapers: $1,132
Cigarettes: $1,023
Toilet paper: $957
Milk: $918
Dog food (dry): $868
Batteries: $849
Breakfast cereal: $736
Film: $705
Pet supplies: $664
*As tracked by ACNielsen
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