Apr 21

Amazon Price Shenanigans

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Purchased 3/26/08 : SimCity Societies PC DVD : Price dropped $0.80 on 3/28/08 and a further $0.77 on 4/1/08 and a further $0.73 on 4/5/08 and a further $0.69 on 4/9/08 and a further $0.66 on 4/13/08 and a further $0.63 on 4/18/08 and a further $0.59 on 4/21/08.

Total money refunded due to Amazon’s price shenanigans : $116.36

written by cybercjh

Apr 21

Hell-Mart : By the Numbers

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Fortune came out with their annual list of America’s largest corporations. Of course, Wal-Mart is number one for 2007. No surprise there.

On total sales of $378.8 Billion, Wal-Mart made a profit of $12.7 Billion. That’s a 3.4% profit. 

  • There’s 6.6 Billion people on earth. That means each person on earth spent just over $57 at Wal-Mart last year.
  • The average Wal-Mart cashier made $8.88/hr in 2007.
  • Lee Scott, Wal-Mart’s CEO, made $29.7 Million dollars last year. It would take the average Wal-Mart cashier 1,607 years, working 40 hours a week, to make that much.
  • Bananas is Wal-Mart’s most popular item. Yes, bananas.
  • Wal-Mart imported $30 Billion of stuff from China last year. Most likely, almost all of it containing too much lead.

Target made $2.8 Billion on sales of $63.3 Billion. They made a 4.4% profit.

Sears (who owns K-Mart) made just $826 Million on sales of $50.7 Billion. That’s no surprise. Have you ever been inside a Sears Essentials? What a dump. They made a 1.6% profit.

written by cybercjh