The first two New York City Labor Days took place on the 5th of September, but in 1884, the third annual New York City Labor Day holiday was scheduled for the first Monday in September, and that date stuck.
While the store prototype is 10,000 square feet, stores slated to open generally range 10,000 to 17,000 square feet, significantly smaller than the typical U.S. supermarket, but also two to three times the size of the typical U.S. convenience store.lthough the look-and-feel of the stores are not significantly different, product assortment is reduced. In addition, the stores cost $5 million less to build, $1.5 million less to stock and require 25% less employees than the typical Lowe's; however, sales per square foot are about 84% of the typical store.
The backbone of the Walmart empire is the Supercenter. In its annual report, the company reported that it has 3,288 Supercenters in the U.S, an increase of 130 in the last year. The average size of a Supercenter is 179,000 square feet, and the stores offer both merchandise and groceries.