16 Facts About Walmart That Will Blow Your Mind

Everyone knows Walmart is an impossibly large multinational corporation intent on world domination. 

But just how close are they to getting there?

Walmart has more full-time employees -- 2.1 million -- than seven times the population of Iceland.

Walmart's $405 billion in revenue last year makes it the 23rd-largest economy in the world, bigger than Sweden.

This year, everyone in the world will make an average of 1.1 purchases at a Walmart.

We do love those low prices.

 

Each week nearly one-third of the U.S. population visits Walmart's U.S. stores.

Last year Walmart sold more bananas than any other item.

China's exports to Walmart accounted for 11% of the growth of the total US trade deficit with China between 2001 and 2006.

Walmart is the largest overall employer in the USA, and the biggest employer in 25 states.

If Walmart's more than 8,500 stores were put in one place, they would take up more than 32 square miles -- as much as 15,300 football fields.

Walmart parking lots alone take up roughly the size of Tampa, Florida.

In 2000, Walmart was sued 4,851 times -- about once every 2 hours.

Walmart is battling 1.6 million employees in the largest class action sex discrimination law suit ever -- the potential cost is $11 billion.

The Walton family has given away about 2% of its net worth to charity -- Bill Gates is giving away 48% of his net worth and Warren Buffet 78% of his net worth.

An additional Walmart Supercenter per 100,000 residents increases average BMI by 0.25 units and the obesity rate by 2.4%.

The most frequent destination typed into GPS device Telenav is Walmart.

A Walmart store in Shenzen, China has it's own fight song ("My heart is filled with pride .. I long to tell you how deep my love for Wal-Mart is ...")

Walmart operates internationally under 55 different names, including Walmex in Mexico, Asda in the UK, Seiyu in Japan, and Best Price in India.