Wal-mart Stores, Inc. is the world's largest retailer. In the fiscal year ending January 31, 2001 Wal-mart had $191 billion dollars in sales. It employees over 1 million people wordwide and operates 4,500 retail units in 10 coutries. The countries Wal-mart operates in are the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, China, Korea, Germany, and the United Kingdom. [Sam Walton]
?, the founder of Wal-mart, opened the first Wal-mart store in Rogers, Ark in 1962.
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