The Big Seller / myLot

Boise, Idaho

July 3, 2019 2:52pm CST

Walmart opened its first store, Walmart Discount City, in Rogers, Arkansas on July 2, 1962. The largest seller is about 1 billion pounds of bananas in all the stores around the world. That;s 311 stores in China known as Trust-Mart, 385 in United Kingdom known as Asda and in Costa Rica 133 named Pali. Sam Walton bought a Ben Franklin store in Newport, Arkansas in 1945 and started the successful chain. The Walton brothers opened them in small towns and sold American merchandise undercutting the competition. Word wide there are 11,368 stores with 2.2 million employees. Sam Walton's daughter, Alice, is the worlds richest woman worth 38.2 billion as of 2017.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (307773)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

12 Jul 19

That's a lot of stores worldwide.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (159710)

• Boise, Idaho

13 Jul 19

Yes, it is.

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Judy Story

@jstory07 (134755)

• Roseburg, Oregon

13 Jul 19

That is a lot of stores.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (307773)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

16 Jul 19

@celticeagle I'm a regular Wal-Mart shopper.

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Gary Marsh

@garymarsh6 (23393)

• United Kingdom

3 Jul 19

OOh nice. Is Alice single by any chance?

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (159710)

• Boise, Idaho

13 Jul 19

She is if she's smart.

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Judy Story

@jstory07 (134755)

• Roseburg, Oregon

13 Jul 19

I did not know all of that about WalMart thanks for sharing this information.

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Chris Bergstrom

@chrissbergstrom (10767)

• Banks, Oregon

19 Jul 19

Hmmmm my Rand family is from Rogers, Arkansas and there Rand Family Grovery business was in Rogers, Arkansas i am beginning to wonder if the opening of Walmart put them out of business :(

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (159710)

• Boise, Idaho

19 Jul 19

Could be. I'm sure that happened a lot.