June 04, 2004

Wal-Mart's economy is bigger than Poland. A slightly outdated Top 100 list but still intriguing.
posted by rolypolyman 20 years ago
  • mad props to Walmart or jeers to the Poles?
  • Wal-Mart's Sporting Goods Dept. is bigger than Poland! shout out to all my polish homies!
  • *Poland doesn't have those nice old farts who greet you at the door. *Or plenty of free parking. *Wal-Mart doesn't have strong trade unions. *Or cheap vodka. Advantage: Poland.
  • And lest we forget, some of those countries don't have as many guns as the average wal-mart.
  • I wonder if this suggests that CEO H. Lee Scott Jr. is a more powerful man than Aleksander Kwasniewski.
  • The Poles invented vodka. Wal-Mart invented low, low prices. Poland wins.
  • If only Polish Wal-Marts could sell vodka at low, low prices, we'd ALL be wearing a smiley face.
  • DEPT. OF AUDIBLE WINCING: Q): "Where do the Polish keep their armies?" A): " In their sleevies." stop that.
  • Very interesting. I'm a bit surprised to see Allstate Insurance -- didn't realize it was such a large company. I love capitalism.
  • Poland had only been free of Communism for ten years at the time of the statistics, too. With its entry into the EU, I expect it will be quite a way further up that list in ten more years.
  • The Wal-Mart in my neighborhood has a Wal-Mart in it. It's that damn big.
  • Wal-Mart is soooooooo big that... ...it has smaller Wal-Marts in orbit around it. ...Spain claimed it for the new world. ...when Wal-Mart steps on a scale, it reads "one at a time, please." ...Wal-Mart sat on the beach and Greenpeace threw her in! ...Wal-Mart sat on a quarter and a booger shot out of George Washington's nose. ...Wal-Mart was zoned for commercial development. ...Wal-Mart got an actual size tattoo of the projects on her butt.