Sam Walton's original Walton's Five and Dime, now the Wal-Mart Visitor's Center, Bentonville, Arkansas.

Photo taken by Bobak Ha'Eri. September 2, 2006.

According to Wikipedia:

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (branded as Walmart since 2008) (NYSE: WMT) is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores. In 2010 it was the world's largest public corporation by revenue, according to the Forbes Global 2000 for that year.[6] The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. Wal-Mart, headquartered in the Wal-Mart Home Office in Bentonville, Arkansas,[7] is the largest majority private employer[8] and the largest grocery retailer in the United States. In 2009, it generated 51% of its US$258 billion sales in the U.S. from grocery business.[9] It also owns and operates the Sam's Club retail warehouses in North America.
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