Larry Gude
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...that WalMart is currently facing 5,000 lawsuits of various shapes and sizes, from in store accidents to the largest discrimination suit in history?
Five thousand.
Five thousand.
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FromTexas
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Larry Gude said:
And has around 6000 stores... not including shipping warehouses, administration offices, etc....
I don't think that number is that bad with the number of employees, the number of locations (admin, storage, etc...), and the number of new projects they deal with on a daily basis. Not in this lawsuit happy society.
A store that size seems like you would expect there to be at least one lawsuit, of some form, facing each store. Whether it was employment related, trying to prevent one being built, trying to prevent one moving, accident related, etc...
Just MHO.
FromTexas
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Ahh found some interesting WalMart facts... (these are as of 2002)
Annual sales: $220 billion
Number of employees worldwide: 1.28 million
Number of stores worldwide: 4,382
Supercenters: 1,060
Sam's Clubs: 495
New stores opening in 2002: 420
Number of suppliers: 30,000
U.S. state with the most Wal-Marts: Texas (316)
State with the fewest: Vermont (4)
Value today of 100 shares of Wal-Mart stock, purchased in 1970 at the offering price of $16.50 per share: $11.5 million
Rank of Wal-Mart among all retailers in annual grocery sales in the United States: 1
Rank in jewelry sales: 1
Percentage of Procter & Gamble's (PG) $40 billion in annual sales accounted for by Wal-Mart: 15
Number of pallets transported by Wal-Mart trucks each week: 50 million
Estimated number of hot dogs sold each year in Wal-Mart snack bars: 70 million
Percentage of dry dog food sold in the United States (outside of pet stores) that is purchased in Wal-Mart stores: 35
Percentage of toothpaste that is purchased in Wal-Mart stores: 24
Total square miles of Wal-Mart's occupied retail space: 18.3
Number of years, at current growth rates, until retail space equals the land area of Manhattan: 5
Terabytes of data in Wal-Mart's data warehouse in Bentonville: 500
Terabytes in the data warehouse of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service: 40
Megawatt-hours of energy consumed last year by Wal-Mart stores: 7.8 million
Annual megawatt-hours generated by the Hoover Dam: 4 million
Annual advertising expenditures: $498 million
Metric tons of gold purchased annually for Wal-Mart by its suppliers: 18.4
Number of Olympic-size swimming pools that could be filled with baby food sold annually in Wal-Mart stores: 58
Typical starting hourly wage of a Wal-Mart associate: $6.50
Estimated value of goods Wal-Mart employees steal from Wal-Mart stores each year: $1 billion
Estimated value of goods stolen by shoplifters: $700 million
All-time one-day sales record (Nov. 23, 2001): $1.25 billion
Number of Wal-Mart-owned Learjets: 18
Number of Wal-Mart pilots: 60
Number of Wal-Mart employees in China: 4,000
Number of children recovered through Wal-Mart's Missing Children's Boards since the program began in 1996: 50
Estimated annual sales of the 850 McDonald's (MCD) that operate inside Wal-Mart stores: $1.3 billion
Number of daily customers at Wal-Mart stores worldwide: 15.7 million
Number of unique daily visitors at Walmart.com: 450,000
Items stocked by a typical Wal-Mart Supercenter: 100,000
Items stocked by Walmart.com: 600,000
Top-selling book on Walmart.com, January 2002: Journey Through Heartsongs, by Mattie J.T. Stepanek
Top-selling CD: Weathered, by Creed
Wal-Mart's projected market capitalization in 2020: $11.1 trillion
(All that and only 5000 lawsuits)
Annual sales: $220 billion
Number of employees worldwide: 1.28 million
Number of stores worldwide: 4,382
Supercenters: 1,060
Sam's Clubs: 495
New stores opening in 2002: 420
Number of suppliers: 30,000
U.S. state with the most Wal-Marts: Texas (316)
State with the fewest: Vermont (4)
Value today of 100 shares of Wal-Mart stock, purchased in 1970 at the offering price of $16.50 per share: $11.5 million
Rank of Wal-Mart among all retailers in annual grocery sales in the United States: 1
Rank in jewelry sales: 1
Percentage of Procter & Gamble's (PG) $40 billion in annual sales accounted for by Wal-Mart: 15
Number of pallets transported by Wal-Mart trucks each week: 50 million
Estimated number of hot dogs sold each year in Wal-Mart snack bars: 70 million
Percentage of dry dog food sold in the United States (outside of pet stores) that is purchased in Wal-Mart stores: 35
Percentage of toothpaste that is purchased in Wal-Mart stores: 24
Total square miles of Wal-Mart's occupied retail space: 18.3
Number of years, at current growth rates, until retail space equals the land area of Manhattan: 5
Terabytes of data in Wal-Mart's data warehouse in Bentonville: 500
Terabytes in the data warehouse of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service: 40
Megawatt-hours of energy consumed last year by Wal-Mart stores: 7.8 million
Annual megawatt-hours generated by the Hoover Dam: 4 million
Annual advertising expenditures: $498 million
Metric tons of gold purchased annually for Wal-Mart by its suppliers: 18.4
Number of Olympic-size swimming pools that could be filled with baby food sold annually in Wal-Mart stores: 58
Typical starting hourly wage of a Wal-Mart associate: $6.50
Estimated value of goods Wal-Mart employees steal from Wal-Mart stores each year: $1 billion
Estimated value of goods stolen by shoplifters: $700 million
All-time one-day sales record (Nov. 23, 2001): $1.25 billion
Number of Wal-Mart-owned Learjets: 18
Number of Wal-Mart pilots: 60
Number of Wal-Mart employees in China: 4,000
Number of children recovered through Wal-Mart's Missing Children's Boards since the program began in 1996: 50
Estimated annual sales of the 850 McDonald's (MCD) that operate inside Wal-Mart stores: $1.3 billion
Number of daily customers at Wal-Mart stores worldwide: 15.7 million
Number of unique daily visitors at Walmart.com: 450,000
Items stocked by a typical Wal-Mart Supercenter: 100,000
Items stocked by Walmart.com: 600,000
Top-selling book on Walmart.com, January 2002: Journey Through Heartsongs, by Mattie J.T. Stepanek
Top-selling CD: Weathered, by Creed
Wal-Mart's projected market capitalization in 2020: $11.1 trillion
(All that and only 5000 lawsuits)
Does that include class action? If so, that's not too bad. Sounds like a lot, but a decent class action against a corporation like Wal-Mart can run in the several thousand. Plaintiff gets zip - lawyers get rich.Larry Gude said:
but I'd like to answer the question.
I'm am sorely lacking one for my drink. 
morganj614
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FromTexas said:Ahh found some interesting WalMart facts... (these are as of 2002)
State with the fewest: Vermont (4)
(All that and only 5000 lawsuits)
They put them all in New Hampshire
