Wal-Mart has 460 terabytes of customer data.
 

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...siness/2899305

the article states that:

"Wal-Mart has 460 terabytes of data stored on mainframes. The Internet has less than half as much data, according to experts."

Some how, I doubt there is less than 230 TB of storage on the net.

"The Internet Archive Wayback Machine contains approximately 1 petabyte of data"

Source: Archive.org

I was just looking there.

thanks:glugglug

scary. i loved that Southpark Walmart episode because it kills towns.

Nice to know that Floridians facing a hurricane still have priorities :thumbsup

Hell yeah beer before hurricanes! Everyone has a hurricane party or at least we do here in SC.

I've been watching CNBC's Inside Wal-Mart report for the last few hours.

This company's infrastructure is the most elaborate I've ever seen. They have it all nailed down.

The only computer network larger is the Pentagon's.

They have it wired so that every single transaction goes into the main database within 15 minutes.

Vendors can monitor product inventory and sales in real time through this network as well.

Do they sell their customer information off? Or do they buy it and then take over the town.

Interesting stat. At any one time Wal-Mart has 5,000 lawsuits against the company it is dealing with.

Wow.

:helpme

5000 !?! HOW THE FUCK DO THEY MAKE IT OUT

They also sell frozen steak on the internet

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...est=9999999997

Wal-Mart has over 1.5 Million employees.

The annual turnover rate is 44%.

So it has to hire 600,000 new employees each year just to sustain the 44% that quit each year.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I guess those smilie faces aren't what they appear.

I was at walmart with my brother a few weeks ago, he is an attorney, he made a purchase and they asked him for his drivers license before they would process his credit card.

He told the cashier that they are not allowed to ask for an id with a credit card and refused to produce his, the manager came over and things started getting nasty, they were yelling at each other.

He told the manager to read their merchant account tos to see what it says about asking for an id, the manager whispered in my brothers ear that this is walmart and we dont give a shit about the cc companies tos, we were then escorted from the store

uh... and why didnt your brother just show his ID? refusing to show id just makes you look like you are tyring to pull shit.

Your bro seems like one of those guys who just wants to cause shit :)

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Walmart is preetty amazing.

is it like that in every state? why did he have to get hard, is it that diffacult to get your id out?

the 56% that stay are probably the disabled greeters who dont realize they are in a deadend job

He's a lawyer, who knows, he does that type of shit all the time, I hate going anyplace with him, he said legally they cant ask

I have never been asked anywhere but walmart, my kids use my cards all the time, they dont have an id that matches the name on the card

He told me the reason they cant ask and it made sense at the time but I cant remember

Wow, I would love to see who's sitting ontop of that hill :Graucho

If he doesn't have to, then why should he?

probably because walmart attracts scammers which cost them tons of money each year
where else can you buy $500 worth of stuff wearing a beater and no shoes?

What "experts" are these?

probably they were not experts.

fuck the waltons

Haha, I can make within 15 minutes a system that works even faster

duh! CUSTOMER DATE

the internet has only HALF the customer data WAL- Mart has


jeez, is is that hard to follow serious stuff ?? you should consider getting a job there ......

people will kill for that kind of user data:)

yup, when I was 18 i stole a credit card and tried to use it at walmart.....

and you wonder why they ask for id?

i've seen it too. funny stuff.