Walmart sold 6,400 American flags across its US stores on September 11, 2000. How many did it sell on September 11, 2001?

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Walmart sold 116,000 flags on September 11, 2001, eighteen times what it had sold on the same date a year earlier. The next day it sold 200,500, and 135,000 more on September 13 before stores ran out. Gas can sales soared 900%, television antennas 400%, ammunition 140%, and guns 70%, with batteries, bottled water, and matches flying off shelves alongside them.

Walmart sold 6,400 American flags on September 11, 2000. On September 11, 2001, it sold 116,000.

Source: Wal-Mart Stores / Talk Business / The Wall Street Journal · checked Oct 2001