…spaces four, five and six are taken up with the Wal-Mart dynasty who together control more than 39% of the grocery chain, which owns Asda in the UK. Jim Walton, the son of the supermarket giant’s pioneer Sam Walton, comes in fourth at $23.4bn; his elder brother and the company’s chairman, Robson Walton is in fifth on $23.3bn, and their sister Alice is joint sixth with $23.2bn with the widow of her other brother John, Christy Walton, and her family.

The Walton’s, still the friends of downtrodden shoppers everywhere…

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