Walmart Facts

WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!

If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world.

The top sales at Walmart as a storm approaches are Pop-Tarts and beer.

A woman with Down syndrome worked at Walmart for 16 years with glowing reviews. When a new scheduling system changed her shift, she asked to keep her old hours because eating dinner at irregular times made her sick. Walmart refused and fired her for "absenteeism." A jury took three hours to award her $125 million.

A mother of three walked out of an Alabama Walmart with Cap'n Crunch, bread, and Christmas lights. The scanner froze. **Walmart had her arrested.** When the charge was dropped, they sent collection letters anyway - demanding $200 from a woman who owed them nothing. She sued. A unanimous jury handed her $2.1 million. The scanner was $48.

When an EF-5 tornado leveled Joplin, Missouri in 2011, 203 people were inside Walmart Store #59. Employees had rehearsed a severe-weather plan just a month earlier and executed it precisely - rushing customers to the reinforced back as the walls came down. 200 of the 203 walked out alive. Across the street at Home Depot, 8 perished when tilt-up concrete walls collapsed. Same storm, same street, very different plan.

Walmart ran a 2012 Facebook contest to send Pitbull to whichever store got the most likes. The internet hijacked it under #ExilePitbull and voted for a tiny Walmart in Kodiak, Alaska - an island of 6,000 people only reachable by boat or plane. The store racked up 70,000 likes. Pitbull flew up, performed at the Coast Guard base, and got the key to the city. Then he paid to fly the prank's organizer up there with him.

Walmart paid $65 million because it refused to let its California cashiers sit down while working.

After being traded to the Phoenix Suns, Shaquille O'Neal went to Walmart at 2 AM to furnish his new apartment. He spent $70,000 on TVs, laptops, and appliances in a single trip. His credit card was declined because the bank flagged it as fraud — they couldn't believe someone was spending that much at Walmart.