One of the largest companies in the Fortune 500 is Walmart. This company is able to offer a wide selection of goods at a strong competitive price. Their size allows them to gain discounts from suppliers and pass those savings onto the customers. Their expansion into other countries and partnership formations have made them a more profitable organization. They have opened up thousands of job opportunities globally. They can continue to expand into convenient stores or open up an internet base store that does home delivery. The possibilities are endless with an organization that has strong management. Unfortunately their shortcomings are due to the large size organization. It is hard maintaining and managing all employees to see the same vision as the top management. The suppliers are always fluctuating their prices and their ability to supply when necessary. Even though Walmart offers satisfaction guaranteed, it is difficult to control the quality of the products because of their low prices. Small vendors and the local competition do everything they can to oppose the building of Walmart within their community. Walmart is a huge store and therefore must be built further outside the city than the smaller convenience stores. They can be affected by gas price increases because fewer people want to expense the travel costs. Like any company that is successful they are open to criticism and ethical mentality, such as lower salaries and poor work conditions, and suppliers coming from cheap labour nations. Gathering all the information about Walmart, a SWOT analysis was performed and the results are the following:

Potential Internal Strengths
-Big store capable of selling in high volumes
-Broad selection
-Have huge buying power Potential Internal Weaknesses
-Product Recall
-Slow revenue growth
-Weak international operations
Potential External Opportunities