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'''Wal-Mart''' is America's largest private employer,<ref>[[Christian Science Monitor]]. [https://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0219/p01s04-usec.html Wal-Mart: world's largest company]</ref> running a chain of department stores. The company was founded by [[Sam Walton]] in Arkansas in 1962. Walton was a [[Christian]] and tried to make his store pro-family. The current Wal-Mart CEO is Lee Scott. Wal-Mart also owns the "Sam's Club" chain of wholesale stores and the "Asda" chain of superstores across the [[United Kingdom]].
'''Wal-Mart''' is America's largest private employer,<ref>[[Christian Science Monitor]]. [https://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0219/p01s04-usec.html Wal-Mart: world's largest company]</ref> running a chain of department stores. The company was founded by [[Sam Walton]] in Arkansas in 1962. Walton was a [[Christian]] and tried to make his store pro-family. The current Wal-Mart CEO is Lee Scott. Wal-Mart also owns the "Sam's Club" chain of wholesale stores and the "Asda" chain of superstores across the [[United Kingdom]].
It is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas.
It is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. The company is becoming increasingly liberal, announcing in September 2019 that it would stop selling handgun ammunition.<ref>Mass, Warren (September 4, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/33326-a-constitutionalist-view-walmart-to-stop-selling-handgun-ammunition A Constitutionalist View: Walmart to Stop Selling Handgun Ammunition]. ''The New American''. Retrieved September 4, 2019.</ref>
Wal-Mart is America's premier example of free market economics
Wal-Mart is America's premier example of free-market economics
* when Wal-Mart opens its supercenters—variety plus grocery stores—in a community, the average grocery prices in that community fall by 13 percent. Even the people who don't shop at Wal-Mart benefit from its presence. [http://americandreamcoalition.org/automobility/automobility.html]
* when Wal-Mart opens its supercenters—variety plus grocery stores—in a community, the average grocery prices in that community fall by 13 percent. Even the people who don't shop at Wal-Mart benefit from its presence. [http://americandreamcoalition.org/automobility/automobility.html]