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Hooze members have contributed details of Wal-Mart Stores for the following metrics.

Wal-Mart’s CEO Lee Scott earned $17.5 million in 2004, or $8,434 per hour. —Source: http://walmartwatch.com/home/pages/issues

Anecdotes from China & Nicaragua:

Ana Maria Barahona works in Nicaragua. Ana Maria moved to a free trade zone, where workers are purported to make more ...

Americans spend $35 million every hour at Wal-Mart, 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
Wal-Mart sells 40% of the products

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$ 377,460 to Democrats and $1,354,790 to Republicans in 2005 —Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-mart

In August of 2005, Wal-Mart paid 1.5 million dollars in penalties for storm water violations in Connecticut.
In 2004 Wal-Mart paid 3.1 million dollars

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One study found that while local businesses contribute on average 53% of their revenues within local and state economies, Wal-Mart spends just 14% of

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Streams from outside sources about Wal-Mart Stores.

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