Source: NC BUSINESS NEWS WIRE, 12/12/18

For Walmart Inc., the buying power of Hispanic people can no longer be ignored, and across the country, especially in states with growing Hispanic populations such as North Carolina, it is taking advantage of changing demographics. From 2010 to 2016, the Hispanic population in North Carolina grew by 16.5 percent, an increase of 132,101 people, according to a study by the Carolina Population Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. During this same time frame, the number of Hispanic people in the United States as a whole grew by 13.5 percent.

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