Wal-Mart is ginormous!

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Written By H. Pike Oliver

On July 15, 2009, Ian Ritter posted at his blog a piece entitled Top 100 Retailers, in which he reported on the publication of the Stores Magazine list of top 100 retailers in 2008 .  This list ranks retailers based on gross revenues.  It would be no surprise to many that Wal-Mart tops the gross retail revenue list.  What is surprising, at least to this observer, is that Wal-Mart's revenue is more than five times greater than the second retailer on the list--Kroger.  In fact, Wal-Mart's revenue exceeds the combined revenue of the second through sixth highest grossing retailers on the  Stores Magazine list of top 100 retailers in 2008 .RETAIL - 2009-07-15 - Top 10 Retailers from Stores Magazine's Top 100

H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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