Love’em or hate’em, they have one of the lowest prices around. How? Well, we’ve read (or in some cases, experienced) how they treat their employees. Low pay, no benefits, bad management. But isn’t that pure capitalism at work? Exploit the workers, make profit, no morals, high chance of success? That’s how it works, right? Right?
1. Walmart is actually an innovative company. Current public consensus has Walmart as a dirty, low-end, cheap consumer brand, but they launched a television network in 1998, pivoted to give consumers healthier and organic goods to try and stem customers from jumping ship to Whole Foods. But then, Walmart’s probably trumps Whole Foods when it comes to prices, and for the price-conscious consumer, does purchasing organic food really matter?
3. A couple actually held their wedding at a Walmart.
4. A Kansas couple got so horned up in a Walmart, they stole some KY and decided to have sex in the middle of the store.
5. A man with a backpack entered a Walmart in Kentucky. Employees became suspicious and checked up on him. Turns out the guy was carrying around a mobile meth lab and he had passed out from the fumes.
8. There’s a 10-Foot Rule set forth by Sam Walton: “I want you to promise that whenever you come within 10 feet of a customer, you will look him in the eye, greet him, and ask him if you can help him.” That means when you come within 10 feet of an employee, they’ve made a promise with Sam Walton to help you out.
16. Walmart employees about 2 million people around the world. The only organization that has more employees in the world? That’s the Chinese army — People’s Liberation Army — with 2,285,000 active members.
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