I like going shopping at Walmart it has a lot of deals
Yup Sam's Club is a nice warehouse store ran by Walmart also.
Do you know how long they have been in business
Since 1962 in Bentonville, AR where the first walmart was made.
How many are out there today?
Over 11,700 in 28 different countries!
Wow that is a ton of stores!
500 list in 2018. It is also the largest private employer in the world with 2.2million employees. It is a publicly traded family-owned business, as the company is controlled by the Walton family. Sam Walton's heirs own over 50-percent of Walmart through their holding company Walton Enterprises and through their individual holdings. Walmart was the largest U.S. grocery retailer in 2019, and 65-percent of Walmart's sales came from U.S. operations.
Walmart was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. By 1988, it was the
portrait studio, a bank branch, a cell phone store, and a fast food outlet. Some also have gasoline stations. Discount Stores were Walmart's original concept, though they have since been surpassed by Supercenters.
In 1990, Walmart opened its first Bud's Discount City location in Bentonville. Bud's operated as a closeout store, much like Big Lots. Many locations were opened to fulfill leases in shopping centers as Walmart stores left and moved into newly built Supercenters. All of the Bud's Discount City stores had