If you haven’t heard yet, then it’s about time! Starting the week of Sunday, November 13th, Wal-Mart : The High Cost of Low Price will be showing at over 6,000 locations worldwide – in living rooms, libraries, churches, universities, bookstores, cafes and co-ops.
It’s not too late to get involved! Find a screening or host one yourself – just hop over to the official site.
Quick Facts About Wal-Mart
- Wal-Mart incorporated in 1969 and took just two decades to become the largest retailer in the US in 1990
- Wal-Mart is now the biggest company in the world based on revenue and it operates more than 5,900 stores
- Wal-Mart banked a cool $10.3 billion of net income and had $285 billion in sales in the 2004-05 fiscal year alone
- If Wal-Mart was its own independent country it would rank 33rd in the world for gross domestic product (GDP)
- Wal-Mart has over 1.7 million employees and is the largest private employer in the US, Canada, and Mexico
- The President and CEO of Wal-Mart, H. Lee Scott, was compensated $12.5 million dollars in 2004
- Wal-Mart operates the largest real estate company in the US and runs its own transportation & distribution companies
- Wal-Mart TV Network, displayed on video screens inside Wal-Mart stores, is seen by 130 million people each month, making it the 5th largest TV network in America, right behind NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX
