26-30 Walmart Facts
26. Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, used to make his employees recite pledges that ended with “…so help me, Sam.” – Source
27. Walmart stores will not price match walmart.com. – Source
28. Walmart accounted for 11% of the growth of total U.S. trade deficit with China between 2001-2006. – Source
29. Walmart was found guilty of violating the Clean Water Act and fined over 100 million dollars for disposing of fertilizer, pesticide, and bleach in sewage systems across the country, among other violations. – Source
30. A&P ceased supermarket operations in 2015 after 156 years in business. It was the largest food/grocery retailer in the United States until 1965, considered an American icon, considered to be the “Walmart before Walmart.” – Source
31-35 Walmart Facts
31. In 2011, a man went into Walmart dressed in a cow costume, somehow stole 26 gallons of milk, and handed them out to people on the street. – Source
32. In 2006, Walmart attempted to make their own clone of Myspace, except they screened all content, informed parents their kids have joined and prevented users from emailing each other. They shut it down within three months. – Source
33. The Walmart heirs have the same net worth as the bottom 30 percent of Americans combined. – Source
34. 4chan rigged Pitbull’s facebook contest so that he would perform at a Walmart in Kodiak, Alaska, a city with a population of less than 7000. Despite knowing what happened, Pitbull went through with it anyways. – Source
35. A guy once dressed up as an armored truck driver and tricked Walmart into giving him $75,000. – Source
36-40 Walmart Facts
36. Walmart is the USA’s largest seller of organic foods. – Source
37. The Walton family of Walmart has a giant bunker in Arkansas to survive apocalyptic events. – Source
38. Walmart has it’s own private satellite communications network, and it’s the largest privately owned satellite network in the world. – Source
39. There’s a positive correlation between the obesity rate of a population and the number of Walmarts servicing that population. – Source
40. The residence of Saranac Lake New York said no to a Walmart in their town and instead, opened a community-owned store. – Source
Your source for them not price matching walmart.com is their animal welfare page. And I recently bought a t.v. that was priced $400 cheaper at walmart.com than the shelf price, and got it for the walmart.com price. So my experience would say that’s incorrect anyway.
The source is the company’s policy page. If you scroll down then you’ll see a “Price match Policy” section.
Then re-word it to “According to the price match policy section on their website….”
You need to check some of you’re facts better, and maybe you should have 50-50 positive and negative when doing this with any company or person.
checking facts….sure
forcibly making everything half positive half negative…go drink bleach
Stop it. Just stop. No one cares.
Ok Walmart. You’re not fooling anyone
On #23is that supposed to be 1,000 or 10,000.
It’s 10,000.