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To: Montana Wildhack who wrote (12)	6/24/2004 4:36:55 PM
From: Montana Wildhack	Respond to of 20

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 stockhouse.ca