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adventured
11y ago
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Walmart has 3% net income margins; Costco has 2% net income margins; Target has 3% net income margins; BestBuy in its best days had 4% net income margins. By that premise, nobody should have ever built grocery stores or most retail outlets.
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rayiner
11y ago
Retail is far less capital intensive. WalMart generates almost 6x the revenue per dollar of invested capital as Verizon.
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