Happy Birthday Walmart?
Walmart turns 50 this week, but is it a "happy" birthday? The mega-corporation known around the globe as Asda, Walmex, Seiyu but most of all -- Walmart -- has over two million employees and $447 billion a year in revenue, making it the largest private employer and retailer on the planet.[1] But Walmart's expansion has come at a real cost, and communities around the globe are paying for it. From the single mother whose sales associate wages are too low to afford health insurance for her sick child, to the debt-enslaved worker in Thailand who had his passport seized and can't return to his family. Help commemorate Walmart's 50th birthday by sharing this infographic of somber facts about the retail giant The sheer size and power of Walmart means it has an enormous impact on everything it does, from wiping out local jobs and guzzling more energy than 57 nations in the world combined, to making its founders, the Waltons, one of the wealthiest families ...