- 12% of the economy's productivity gains in the second half of the 1990s could be traced to Wal-Mart alone
- Last year, 7.5 cents of every dollar spent in any store in the United States (other than auto-parts stores) went to the retailer
- It does more business than Target, Sears, Kmart, J.C. Penney, Safeway, and Kroger combined
Sunday, February 27, 2011
The Wal-Mart You Don't Know
Check out this FastCompany piece on Wal-Mart's business practices. Incredible insights about its scale:
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