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Walmart is a highly successful discount store based in whole on its founders beliefs and convictions. Sam Walton wanted to make a difference amongst the retail dynasty. A great foundation was implemented for his customers, associates, and community. These beliefs are what today still keeps the store sky rocketing to successful measures.
Walmart first department stores opened in a small lower income town called Rogers, Arkansas on July 2, 1962. Sam Walton had a vision of providing inexpensive goods to small town markets. Walmart went public on October 1, 1970 to the trading public. It started at $16.50 a share which was a good start then. In 1991 Walmart expanded internationally, starting in Mexico City. Currently as of July 2004 Walmart have opened more than 1,409 discount stores in the US, 1,562 super centers, 539 Same clubs, and more than 1,506 international Walmarts in various countries.
The industry which Wal marts lie is known as the giant Retail business. The current size is 5,016 total stores in both domestic and internationally. The growth of this company is sky rocketing and leaving any room for competition to keep up. Based on the current sales Walmart is ranked as one of the top retail if not best retail store in the world. It roughly brings in 256,329,000 net sales a year and its net profit is around 10,803,000 a year. With the turn around rates, an accurate calculation of current employees is not attainable, however there is a documentation of 1.3 million current associates worldwide. This includes stores, clubs and 10 internati ...