Walmart

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
	Walmart logo
Type	Discount department store/Public (NYSE: WMT)
Industry	Retail
Founded	July 2, 1962; 62 years ago (in Rogers, Arkansas)
Headquarters	Bentonville, Arkansas Elmira, New York (Walmart Radio), Mexico, U. S. and Canada
Number of locations	10,000
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Sam Walton (1918–1992), Founder; H. Lee Scott, CEO; S. Robson Walton, Chairman ; Thomas Schoewe, CFO
Products	Discount stores, grocery stores, and hypermarkets
Revenue	$523.964 billion USD (FY 2020)
Net income	$14.881 billion USD (FY 2020)
Number of employees	2.0 Million (2022)
Website	http://www.walmart.com

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is a company founded by Sam Walton in 1962. It is one of the world's largest companies, behind Exxon Mobil. Walmart stores are large department stores that sell many different things. There are more than 10,000 Walmarts around the world, and over 2 million people work for Walmart.^[1]

Places Walmart can be found

A diagram of where Walmart can be found around the world. The countries in blue currently have Walmart; the countries in red formerly had Walmart; the countries in grey never had Walmart.

A Walmart in Canada

Walmart can be found in a lot of places around the world. It is mostly found around the United States but can also be found in Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, some Asian countries, some African countries and some South American countries. Walmart has not yet reached Oceania.

Criticism

Walmart is criticized for having a poor record on labor rights, especially regarding anti union activity. It has also been criticized for once promoting made in America for its products but now largely importing the products it sells, from developing nations. Many of these jobs replaced manufacturing jobs in the US. along with the fact that Walmart retail jobs replaced many mom and pop stores in the US.^[2] In 2005, movie director Robert Greenwald made a documentary movie called Walmart The High Cost of Low Price that criticized Walmart. After this movie was announced, director Ron Galloway made a film that ended up being released at the same time called Why Walmart Works and Why That Drives Some People CRAZY. This movie had a positive view of Walmart.^[3]

Walmart Media

Photo of American Businessman Sam Walton
Sam Walton's original Walton's Five and Dime Store in Bentonville, Arkansas, now serving as The Walmart Museum
Wal-Mart logo from 1962 to 1964
Wal-Mart logo from 1966 to 1981
Wal-Mart logo from 1981 to 1992
Wal-Mart logo from 1992 to 2008, still used in some locations and on many semi-truck trailers
Solar modules mounted on a Walmart Supercenter in Caguas, Puerto Rico (Store #2449)
A truck converted to run on biofuel
Walmart Supercenter in Grundy, Virginia (Store #3303). This store was built as part of a $200 million revitalization project. The store was built on top of a two-story parking garage, the only one of its kind in the United States.
Signs on a Walmart indicated changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Workers speak during Occupy Wall Street