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The spokesperson of Walmart is what person?
Bacon
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Walmart Stores, Inc. is the largest retailer in the world and one of the five largest corporations in the world by sales. Walmart Canada and Walmart USA are owned by different people  
The activist group "Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy" (LAANE) said "in 2006 Walmart reports that full-time hourly associates received, on average, $10.11 an hour." LAANE further calculated that working 34 hours per week an Walmart employee earns $17,874 per year which is roughly twenty percent less than the average retail worker. (The number of hours the "average retail worker" worked was not specified.) The report from LAANE further opines that this pay is "over $10,000 less than what the average two-person family needs." Walmart insists its wages are generally in line with the current local market in retail labor. Other critics have noted that in 2001, the average wage for a Walmart Sales Clerk was $8.23 per hour, or $13,861 a year, while the federal poverty line for a family of three was $14,630. Walmart founder Sam Walton once said, "I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment. "In August 2006, Walmart announced that it would roll out an average pay increase of 6% for all new hires at 1,200 U.S. Walmart and Sam's Club locations, but at the same time would institute pay caps on veteran workers. While Walmart maintains that the measures are necessary to stay competitive, critics believe that the salary caps are primarily an effort to push higher-paid veteran workers out of the company. In 2008, Walmart agreed to pay at least $352 million to settle lawsuits claiming that it forced employees to work off the clock. "Several lawyers described it as the largest settlement ever for lawsuits over wage violations. "Because Walmart employs part-time and relatively low paid workers, some workers may partially qualify for state welfare programs. This has led critics to claim that Walmart increases the burden on taxpayer-funded services. A 2002 survey by the state of Georgia's subsidized healthcare system, PeachCare, found that Walmart was the largest private employer of parents of children enrolled in its program; one quarter of the employees of Georgia Walmarts qualified to enroll their children in the federal subsidized healthcare system Medicaid. A 2004 study at the University of California, Berkeley charges that Walmart's low wages and benefits are insufficient, and although decreasing the burden on the social safety net to some extent, California taxpayers still pay $86 million a year to Walmart employees. On September 4, 2008, the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice ruled that Wal-Mart de Mexico, the Mexican subsidiary of Walmart, must cease paying its employees in part with vouchers redeemable only at Wal-Mart stores. 
 Walmart Stores U.S. - 4,092 total units as of January 31, 2014 *Walmart Discount Stores (508) *Walmart Supercenters (3,288) *Supermarkets (346) - includes Neighborhood Market, Amigo and Supermercado stores *Small Format Stores (61) - includes Walmart Express, Walmart on Campus and Super Ahorros stores *Walmart.com Sam's Club (632) Logistics *Walmart Transportation LLC *Distribution Centers/Transportation Offices (130) Walmart Realty Claims Management, Inc.  Walmart Portrait Studios was rebranded as PictureMe! Portrait Studios in late 2006. The Portrait Studios are operated by CPI Corp, Inc. under an agreement with Walmart. Space is leased and they are independently owned and operated and only pay rent to Walmart and a license fee to use the Walmart brand. Also, most Doctors of Optometry are independent contractors and are not employees of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. but instead pay rent to use space in Walmart and Sam's Club Vision Centers. The Walmart Money Center (Formerly Wal-Mart Financial Services Network) is a tradename for financial services provided in their stores, including the Walmart Money Card™, Money Transfers, Bill Payments, Money Orders, Check Cashing and Check Printing.  
Walmart is the largest retail chain in the world. Walmart or Wal-Mart may also refer to: Walmart (golf tournament), a golf tournament on the Champions Tour Walmart (neologism), or Walmarting "Walmart" (song), a song by Rodney Carrington Wal-Mart (fossil) or Camelops, a prehistoric camel bone found at the construction site of a Wal-Mart store in Mesa, Arizona  
Introduced in 1998 as Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market (some stores still call it Walmart Neighborhood Market), Walmart Markets range around , which is a quarter of the size of a typical Walmart Supercenter in the United States. However, in many countries, stores of this scale would be classified as superstores or "compact hypermarkets." Walmart Markets employ 80–100 employees and offer about 28,000 items. 