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Yikes, is that true, or just an alarmingly plausible throwaway line that you made up?

Dude, do you work for Zogby?

Anyway, to answer this question, I have heard just that about a half a dozen times from as many sources. I just spent 5 minutes looking for a primary source on the Internet and can not find the exact number for American Shoppers but I did find that 176 million customers visit Wal-Mart each week, globally. (http://www.walmartfacts.com/FactSheets/7262006_Merchandising.pdf)

IIRC, there were about 120 Million voters in the last US Presidential election. So it is entirely possible and even probable that more than 120 million Americans visit a Wal-Mart store within the the time span of a year. Moreover, many American's only vote once every 4 years so it seems even more probable that some number over 120 million Americans shop at a Wal-Mart every 4 years.

While perusing the Wal-Mart site looking for the exact number of American Wal-Mart shoppers, I found that the company has 52,623 "associates" in the state of Georgia alone and 1.3 million nationally.

Oh, I just found the number! "More than 127,000 Million customers shop at Wal-Mart NATIONWIDE every week."

http://www.walmartfacts.com/FactSheets/7262006_Economic_Benefits.pdf

Please feel free to ignore everything I wrote before the last paragraph. :~)