[mkinnan]

Wow! This article certainly gives you a different perspective on how companies like Google, Apple, and Microsoft really are small as compared to giants like GE, Exxon, etc.

What blows me away is that Wal-Mart has 2 million+ employees! A piece of information that would be interesting as a comparison is the number of government employees there are in different countries ...

[thematt]

To put that in perspective even further, that means Wal-Mart constitutes about 1% of the American workforce.

[MikeCapone]

And this doesn't count some of Walmart's main suppliers/logistics providers, like McLane (which is part of Berkshire Hathaway).