Wal-Mart Growth

[daberko120ch]

I live in a city of around 18 thousand, and there used to be like 15 stores similar to wal-mart with unique things to buy... know there is only 6 stores to get stuff at... wierd...

[ranelproductions]

What about Target?

[IBloodSweatTears]

@ranelproductions Target's growth was very different from Wal-Marts. Although they both began in the same year, Wal-marts strategy was much more effective. Target began in Minnesota After building just 3 stores there within there first 6 years, they went into far markets & build 2 stores in Texas & Missouri. Wal-mart on the other hand saturated the surrounding states (Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, And Nebraska) with stores, Remember Wal-mart started in Arkansas.

[IBloodSweatTears]

@ranelproductions Filling 1 market up before moving on too the next proved to be a much better growth strategy then Targets, Hopscotch around the country & build in towns with 100,000 or more people strategy. As a result wal-mart has nearly 6000 more stores as of 2010. Although i personally do not like Wal-mart. There growth was much better & smarter then Targets. For walmart to have higher revenues then the next 6 retailers combined is unconceivable.

[IBloodSweatTears]

@ranelproductions And look at how much more room is left in the mid west for walmart, Not the mention there growth in china (Which is home too 1.6 billion people). Walmart will ben the U.S's first 500 billion dollar company, And, another 25-40 years & they will be a zillion dollar company. (As much as it pains me to say that)

[daberko120ch]

@IBloodSweatTears nothing on earth would reach 1 zillion in dollars... haha, It goes (from least to greatest): million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion, undecillion, duodecillion) Each one from left to right is multiplied 1 thousand times (ex: 1 million times 1 thousand = 1 billion etc.) Scientists have not yet clarified zillion as a number, zillion is a synonym for a lot.

[IBloodSweatTears]

@daberko120ch Well from my understanding a Zillion is a number followed by billion. And considering that Wal-Mart is an 426 billion dollar company, I'm sure with there growth they can rich it one day.

[daberko120ch]

@IBloodSweatTears If a zillion was after a billion instead of trillion Bi = 2.... TRI = 3... QUAD = 4... than we wouldn't call a triangle a triangle, we would call it a ziangle... and that isn't right at all. it's trillion.

[Ajinin]

I don't really know what to think about Wal-Mart. I went to a business college in Iowa, and every professor I had spoke of what Wal-Mart has done /is doing. While I don't like the fact that they are incredibly bull-headed when it comes to negotiations, we cannot deny they are a major component behind globalization. I don't like their hiring /promoting practices, but their SCM is a keystone for any firm seeking to expand in a global market. UPS, FedEx, Redbull, etc. all took notes from WM.

[makemap]

Oh my gawd!

[conrebbi]

i have seen a video with a Walmart Building and some people are thinking that this could be a CONZENTRATIONCAMP- well it looks like, because there is only one Gate and no windows or doors- like a bunker!

[nativanov]

@conrebbi The National Guard in many states have formal plans to take control over Wal-Mart stores in the event of a national disaster. All Wal-Marts in those states would become property of the state or possibly the federal government through FEMA.

The Walton family has their own military base with concertina wire and 24/7 armed guards. They're prepared for something.

[MegaGooner123]

As I company, I respect Wal-Mart. I don't care about Monopoly or anything like that.

[CatsLairArchives]

@MegaGooner123 So you don't care about your own family then either, I take it.

[MegaGooner123]

@CatsLairArchives No, of course I care. But the prices in Wal-Mart is normal, isn't that? so, why would I blame them for monopoly?

[CatsLairArchives]

@MegaGooner123 The problem is that fools like you refuse to see what's wrong. Istead, you worship WM as a God while sticking your fingers in your ears, closing your eyes, and screaming "O'm not liistening" every time someone tries telling or showing you the truth.

[Tdahoodfella]

Wal Mart's growth in North America is nothing compared to the Globilazation of McDonald's

[CatsLairArchives]

@Tdahoodfella But McDonald's isn't doing everything in it's power to drive all others out of business, nor are they trying to dominate retail, financial, grocery, and every other aspect of business.

[Cheiracanthium]

Why pay more somewhere else?

[cpuomega5]

lol, the picture shows only USA growth, not EUROPE, ASIA and the rest of the world. A true monopoly virus.

[bogieman987]

yeah wall mart is only in usa and canada

[TheDeathOfTheWorld]

Wal-mart rips off EVERYONE, they destroy and roll over small businesses and kill the economy in small towns.... boycott all the 500 companies... help stop funding the end of the world

[spunkeez]

its like a virus

[kingofnothing85]

more like a pandemic lol

[SETINWAYS]

Don't let walmart change your oil and filter,they damaged my suv,and then refused to pay to fix it.

[balzysalzy]

How did your suv get damaged? What did they do put the filter on crooked and the oil leaked out? If the cap isn't put back on or rattles off oil would be everywhere. Details please.

[dagwort]

Stop panicking, you nitwits. Sooner or later Wal-Mart will reach the limits of growth; everything does. (They might be reaching that limit even now. Watched any CNBC lately?) Their specialization in volume-efficiency will equilibrate into generalization, and others will take advantage of that by competing in their own niche and with their own specialization. Now sit down, shutup, and go review your Econ 101.

"Sovereign nation"... "monopolize"... gimme a break.

[SlackerAndy02]

I just want to tell you that Wal-Mart has recently reduced the number of supercenters that open per year.

[gdmjmatt2540]

Walmart sucks, they are trying to become their own sovereign nation. How long before they set up physician services? Pretty soon you will be able to buy anything, have any service, at Walmart. They monopolize everything. I think when they institute the mark of the beast, Walmart is sure to be involved.

[bagzie]

The motherfuckers are trying to take over the world.