Quote Of The Day #2: George Will’s Wal-Mart Stats

by John Hawkins | September 14, 2006 8:49 am

” The median household income of Wal-Mart shoppers is under $40,000. Wal-Mart, the most prodigious job-creator in the history of the private sector in this galaxy, has almost as many employees (1.3 million) as the U.S. military has uniformed personnel. A McKinsey company study concluded that Wal-Mart accounted for 13 percent of the nation’s productivity gains in the second half of the 1990s, which probably made Wal-Mart about as important as the Federal Reserve in holding down inflation. By lowering consumer prices, Wal-Mart costs about 50 retail jobs among competitors for every 100 jobs Wal-Mart creates. Wal-Mart and its effects save shoppers more than $200 billion a year, dwarfing such government programs as food stamps ($28.6 billion) and the earned-income tax credit ($34.6 billion). People who buy their groceries from Wal-Mart — it has one-fifth of the nation’s grocery business — save at least 17 percent.” — George Will[1]

Endnotes:
  1. George Will: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTYwNmEyZTE5ZjU2NmM0OTU4N2ZiMTA4NDdhZmM5ZGU=

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