Road King
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. operates retail stores in various formats worldwide. It operates through three segments: Wal-Mart Stores, Sam's Club, and International. The Wal-Mart Stores segment includes supercenters, discount stores, and neighborhood markets in the United States, as well as walmart.com. This segment offers general merchandise, including apparel, domestics, fabrics and notions, stationery and books, shoes, housewares, hardware, electronics, home furnishings, small appliances, automotive accessories, horticulture and accessories, sporting goods, toys, pet food and pet accessories, cellular phones, and cellular service plan contracts. Its stores also offer grocery merchandise, and financial services and products. The Sam's Club segment includes the warehouse membership clubs in the United States, as well as samsclub.com. This segment primarily provides hardgoods, softgoods, institutional-size grocery items, and selected private-label items under the MEMBER'S MARK, BAKERS & CHEFS, and SAM'S CLUB brands. The International segment includes various formats of retail stores and restaurants, including discount stores, supercenters, and Sam's Clubs that operate in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom. As of January 31, 2007, the company operated 1,075 discount stores; 2,256 supercenters; 579 Sam's Clubs; and 112 Neighborhood Markets in the United States. It operated 13 units in Argentina, 299 in Brazil, 289 in Canada, 137 in Costa Rica, 63 in El Salvador, 132 in Guatemala, 41 in Honduras, 392 in Japan, 889 in Mexico, 40 in Nicaragua, 54 in Puerto Rico, and 335 in the United Kingdom, as well as 73 stores through joint ventures in the People's Republic of China, as of the above date. The company was founded in 1945 and is based in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Full Time Employees: 1,900,000 |
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shayne_h_1999
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I only know that they own sam's club and Wal-mart. They may have branched out into media. But not that I know of. They are probably focusing on their core business which is being a big box retailer. |
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Lindsay W
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Well, Wal-mart has their own radio station for inside the store, and also a TV channel for inside the store. They also have any smaller companies that bring in lots of money. Other than that, its stocks and how much money they make. |
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dallas
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They own Neighborhood Markets. Grocery chain. That is all I know of. I don't know what they invest their profits in. It isn't in employee benefits, that's for sure. |
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Yans Olafsson
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nope, they have no media holdings. just walmart.com. |
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MIE
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From Wal-Mart Stores, Inc
As of November 30, 2007, the Company had
979 Wal-Mart discount stores,
2,435 Supercenters,
586 Sam’s Clubs and
128 Neighborhood Markets in the United States, for a total of 4,128 units.
Internationally, the Company operated units in Argentina (21), Brazil (307), Canada (298), China (Wal-Mart 93; Trust-Mart 102), Costa Rica (146), Guatemala (145), Honduras (47), Japan (394), Mexico (994), Nicaragua (44), Puerto Rico (54), El Salvador (68) and the United Kingdom (352).
They have the Wal-Mart network and is efficient and effective.
As to their good and bad you decide.
Their good side
http://www.walmartfacts.com/
Their bad side
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Sam%27s+Club+6625&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8 |
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rufus
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All the heirs of Sam Walton dabble in things like owning sports teams, blowing their billions of net worth, and laughing their arses off at their employees who they pay minimum wage to. |
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oilersguru
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Lots of smaller chains ie: red apple, and some grocery stores. |
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Dragon Fly
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They don't own schools. Schools have classes in English, they teach spelling and grammar. Go back to school and leave the Wal-Mart questions to economists, local politicians and Right Wing conspiracy theorists like your father. |
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cheddarpants
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Wal-Mart itself doesn't own anything, but a significant portion of Wal-Mart stock is controlled by the bin Laden family. As you are probably aware, Osama bin Laden has a large, extended family in Saudi Arabia. Their primary source of income is oil, of course, but since 1991, they have been buying as much Wal-Mart stock as they can. It is estimated now that the bin Ladens control about 70% of the company. |
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