The Top 100 Retailers

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1. where is coca cola
   how about alcoa aluminum
   general electric
   hewlett packard
   micro soft
   lockheed
   boeing
   hmmmm

   1. The list is not THE top 100 companies (although no doubt these would be in the mix), it is a list of the top 100 retailers (as opposed to wholesaler, etc.). The list was posted in a 2013 report via Kantar Retail research.

      I found it interesting to discover where Americans are spending their retail dollars. This includes the food and ‘stuff’ we buy.

2. Not sure how many of these numbers are skewed but for Auto Zone ( I manage a store ) they did 9 billion not 6.9. That is a significant difference in reporting. For the record, and I am not a Walmart fan but Walmart did not put any mom and pops out of business the people that switched loyalty for the few dollar savings did. The majority of people don’t understand that money moved from mom and pop took that money out of your community. I personally give as much as I can to the local business’s.

3. Walmart doesn’t put mom and pop stores out of business. Take the time and effort to look into it and you will discover that following the building of a Walmart store other businesses pop up near it until years later it has tens even in some cases hundreds of small businesses all around it. Walmarts drive traffic to an area and create a little boom town. Walmarts are good for the community, good for the shoppers and good for the country. But don’t worry, governments and unions are working hard to reverse this trend. I fully expect Walmart will one day be unionized so that you can pay twice as much for goods with half the service.

   1. Walmarts are good for the community? Or did you mean to say Chinamarts are good for the community?

      You are right that Chinamart doesn’t put mom and pop stores out of business, it is the people that shop there instead. It is a double edged sword to take advantage of cheap China labor for cheaper products on the shelves of Chinamart. Now our manufacturing is gone. Whoops.

      By the way, to be fair, there are (some) products in Chinamart that are made in the USA.

4. All the stuff from all the stores pretty much comes from the same place. It would either be ignorance or anger to make someone call Walmart Chinamart.
   But you are 100% correct that if the low prices and good service of Walmart put a higher priced store out of business that it would be the consumers fault and not Walmart’s. Damn that free will and freedom, huh!

5. I like small business but to me it seems like there is a reason the big corporations are the kings. They have a more efficient way of doing business. Wally world started off small but they grew because they were more efficient where others were not.

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