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/ˈwɔːlmɑːrt/
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(“walmart” is an ‘american multi-national retail corporation’ that operates a chain of…)
‘hypermarkets’
‘discount department stores’
‘grocery stores’
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(headquartered in (‘bentonville’ / ‘arkansas’), the company was founded by ‘sam walton’ in ‘1962’ and incorporated on ’31 october 1969′)
(as of ’30 april 2016′, ‘walmart’ has “11,527 ‘stores’ and ‘clubs'” in ’28 countries’, under a total of 63 ‘banners’)
*”‘banners?’*
(greek chorus shout: “BANNERS!”)
(‘fore ‘level heads prevail’…)
(aka “different names”)
(the company operates under the ‘walmart’ name in the ‘united states’ and ‘canada’)
(it operates as “walmart de méxico y centroamérica” in ‘mexico’, as ‘asda’ in the ‘united kingdom’, as ‘seiyu’ in ‘japan’, and as ‘best price’ in ‘india’)
(it has ‘wholly-owned operations’ in ‘argentina’, ‘brazil’, and ‘canada’)
(it also ‘owns’ and ‘operates’ the ‘sam’s club’ retail warehouses)
(“walmart” is the “world’s largest company” (by ‘revenue’), according to the “fortune global 500” list in ‘2014’, as well as the “biggest private employer” in the world with “2.2 million employees”)
(‘walmart’ is a ‘family-owned business’, as the company is controlled by the ‘walton family’)
(sam walton’s heirs own over 50% of ‘walmart’ through their ‘holding company’, ‘walton enterprises’, and through their ‘individual holdings’)
((one of) the “world’s most valuable companies” (by ‘market value’))
(“largest ‘grocery retailer'” in the ‘USA’)
(in ‘2016’, it generated ‘62.3%’ of its (US) $478.614 billion sales in the ‘USA’)
(the company was listed on the ‘new york stock exchange’ in ‘1972’)
(in the ‘late 1980s’ and ‘early 1990s’, the company rose from a ‘regional’ to a ‘national’ giant)
(by ‘1988’, ‘walmart’ was the “most profitable retailer in the USA” and by ‘october 1989’, it had become the largest in terms of ‘revenue’)
(geographically limited to the ‘south’ and ‘lower midwest’ up to the ‘mid-1980s’, by the ‘early 1990s’ the company’s presence spanned from ‘coast’ to ‘coast’ — ‘sam’s club’ opened in ‘new jersey’ in ‘november 1989’ and the first ‘california’ outlet opened in ‘lancaster’ in ‘july 1990’)
(a ‘walmart’ in (‘york’ / ‘pennsylvania’) opened in ‘october 1990’, bringing the main store to the ‘northeast’)
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*walmart’s investments outside ‘north america’ have seen ‘mixed results’…*
(its operations in [‘the united kingdom’ / ‘south america’ / ‘china’] are highly successful…)
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(…whereas ventures in ‘germany’ + ‘south korea’ failed)
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