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Fast Company did a famous article about this back in 2003, with the example of a gallon jar of pickles priced at $2.97: https://www.fastcompany.com/47593/wal-m

• kulahan 1y ago
  This was a great read, but one part in particular made me laugh a bit: >Wal-Mart is not just the world’s largest retailer. It’s the world’s largest company–bigger than ExxonMobil, General Motors, and General Electric. The scale can be hard to absorb. Wal-Mart sold $244.5 billion worth of goods last year. It sells in three months what number-two retailer Home Depot sells in a year. Ah, the innocence of 2003.