Saturday, June 21, 2008

Wal-Mart's Global Reach


Wal-Mart serves more than 49 million iternational customers weekly at 3,146 stores in 13 markets outside the continental U.S. (see chart above), and employs 620,000 international associates. International sales were $90.6 billion for Wal-Mart's latest fiscal year (through 1/31/2008), a 17.5% increase over the previous year.

3 Comments:

At 6/22/2008 1:13 AM, Blogger das Kapitalist said...

Wow, 152 stores in less than three years. Amazing.

 
At 6/22/2008 11:01 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

No wonder the Aussies were favoring Target and Woolworth so much...

 
At 6/22/2008 12:43 PM, Blogger K T Cat said...

I just bought a 5 shelf bookcase at WalMart for $27. It doesn't look half bad, either.

I love WalMart.

 

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