Uncle Sam's army: Walmart in the American imagination
Walmart began as a small mom and pop store in Arkansas in the 1950s and has evolved into one of the largest retailers in the world today. The chain’s major hallmark: selling goods at prices lower than local mom-and-pop stores. (Sources: WEF Reports, Statista, Business Insider, Bloomberg)
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
The Black Friday shopping phenomenon - the day following Thanksgiving Day in the US which falls on the fourth thursday of November - sees shoppers turn into raging hordes, baffling social scientists. For many years, retailers opened early with mega promotions at 6am Friday, with mega promotions until they began pushing it back. It was taken to a new extreme when retailers began opening on the midnight of Thursday, or remaining open overnight on Thursday, a holiday. It’s common for shoppers to camp out in a line in front of stores before the opening hours, and the store openings have seen small stampedes and injuries but the shoppers can’t have enough of it, it seems
