{"id":46018,"date":"2012-04-14T11:19:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T16:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=46018"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:38:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:38:17","slug":"just-how-big-is-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/04\/14\/just-how-big-is-walmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Just How Big is Walmart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/environment\/2012\/03\/walmart-sales-energy-use-statistics\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Jones<\/a><\/em> magazine offers some comparisons. Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Its net sales is greater than the GDP of Norway.<\/li>\n<li>Its entertainment sales is triple that of Hollywood.<\/li>\n<li>It emits more CO2 than the 50 lowest-emitting countries together.<\/li>\n<li>It employs a workforce the size of the population of the 50 smallest countries in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Its square-footage exceeds that of the island of Manhattan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The data:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/2.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-46019\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/2-500x900.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/2-500x900.gif 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/2-569x1024.gif 569w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/globalsociology.com\/2012\/03\/26\/the-visual-du-jour-walmarts-ecological-footprint\/\" target=\"_blank\">SocProf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Jones magazine offers some comparisons. Highlights: Its net sales is greater than the GDP of Norway. Its entertainment sales is triple that of Hollywood. It emits more CO2 than the 50 lowest-emitting countries together. It employs a workforce the size of the population of the 50 smallest countries in the world. Its square-footage exceeds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[229,36,98,702,2123,8118,76],"class_list":["post-46018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-consumption","tag-economics","tag-capitalism","tag-energy","tag-environmentnature","tag-organizationsinstitutions","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46018"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58407,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46018\/revisions\/58407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}