This is nonsense. It's not 183, it's 138 (see https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/gross-profit https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/

This is nonsense. It's not 183, it's 138 (see https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/gross-profit https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/gross-... ), but that's not the error. The big error is that the $138B they make is gross profit. To quote Wikipedia: >For a firm, gross income (also gross profit, sales profit, or credit sales) is the difference between revenue and the cost of making a product or providing a service, before deducting overheads, payroll, taxation, and interest payments. Profit after deducting all expenses is net profit. Wal-mart's net profit in 2021 was 13.51 billion: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/net-income https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/net-in.... If $183 billion gross profit is $80000 per employee, you're talking about $5900 net profit per employee. Two dollars per employee wouldn't be a 5% profit loss, it would be an 85% profit loss.