Walmart once opened 1.45 new stores every day worldwide

Evidence

Nowhere is this more evident than in the very architectures of its ubiquitous and homogeneous stores, which now number over 6,100 worldwide (Annual Report 2014, 63), and which were at one time opening at a rate of 1.45 per day (Bianco 2006, 3). — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 297

Categorization

• CANDY: A striking, tweetable scale figure — one and a half new mega-stores per day.