Since our modest beginnings as a small discount retailer in Rogers, Arkansas, Walmart has grown domestically and internationally, opening thousands of stores. Customers will be able to shop anytime, anyplace, both online and in physical locations, thanks to innovation.

Customers and communities all throughout the world are benefiting from the opportunities and value they are creating.

In 20 countries, Walmart operates about 10,500 physical stores, clubs, and online shops. Nearly 1.6 million of their 2.1 million associates work in the United States alone. The 210 distribution centres owned by Walmart serve as the heart of our company.

One of the biggest distribution operations in the world, they serve clubs and stores and offer direct delivery to customers. The fleet of 9,000 tractors, 80,000 trailers, and more than 11,000 drivers in Walmart's transportation division.

• The network of distribution centres delivers daily to our customers’ specialist categories, general products, and dry goods.
• In the event of a natural disaster, there are six disaster distribution centres strategically positioned across the nation and fully equipped to offer quick assistance to needy regions.
• Each distribution centre has an area of more than 1 million square feet, employs more than 600 people, and ships and unloads over 200 trailers every day.
• Within a 150-mile radius of each distribution centre, 90 to 100 stores are supported.

They have been collaborating with Symbiotic to improve our systems and revamp our supply chain since 2017.

While helping to sort, store, retrieve, and pack goods onto pallets, this technology also gives us a chance to train our employees on how to use it, helping them to gain new skills and get ready for the workforce of the future.

In Colton, California, they also unveiled a cutting-edge consolidation centre that will allow three times as much volume to pass through the facility.

Walmart operates a private fleet of vehicles and employs a qualified workforce of truck drivers, which allows us to transport items to and from distribution centres. They believe our driving staff to be the best in the world.

Each year, they travel 1.1 billion miles to make millions of deliveries to our shops and clubs as part of one of the largest and safest fleets.

Every year, each motorist logs an average of about 100,000 miles, which is equivalent to traveling four times around the globe. Walmart enables customers to live more frugally. By providing value and convenience to millions of customers in 19 non-American nations, Walmart International fulfills this promise.