{"id":454221,"date":"2025-12-17T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/454221\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T22:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:38:10","slug":"porch-pirates-pilfer-nearly-2b-worth-of-packages-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/454221\/","title":{"rendered":"Porch pirates pilfer nearly $2B worth of packages in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine, but the retail chain co-founded by the legendary Sam Walton has brought Fort Worth billionaire <strong>Alice Walton<\/strong> and her family even more wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg\u2019s new list of the world\u2019s richest families pegs the <strong>Walton family\u2019s<\/strong> fortune at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2025-richest-families\/?utm_campaign=202512_BATC_subs_eng_richest_families_subs_eng_richest_families_dec2025&amp;utm_term=20984246&amp;utm_source=subs-email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=16125980\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$513.4 billion<\/a>, up nearly 20 percent from the record-setting $432 billion figure reported <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworth.culturemap.com\/news\/city-life\/alice-walton-worlds-richest-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last December<\/a> by Bloomberg. Alice, Jim, and Rob Walton, the eldest members of the family, are the surviving children of Sam Walton. The Waltons are the richest family on the planet in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>To put things in perspective, the $513.4 billion Walton fortune is roughly equivalent to the combined annual revenue of Dallas-Fort Worth Fortune 500 companies McKesson, AT&amp;T, American Airlines, and DR Horton.<\/p>\n<p>Other Walton family billionaires who own significant stakes in Walmart include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li>Ann Walton Kroenke, who shares a more than 520,000-acre ranch about 170 miles northwest of Fort Worth with billionaire husband Stan Kroenke. She is a daughter of Sam Walton\u2019s late brother, Bud Walton.<\/li>\n<li>Billionaire Nancy Walton Laurie, the sister of Ann Walton Kroenke. She primarily lives in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson.<\/li>\n<li>Christy Walton, widow of Alice, Jim and Rob\u2019s brother John. She lives in Jackson, Wyoming.<\/li>\n<li>Lukas Walton, son of John Walton, who splits his time between Jackson and Chicago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Forbes estimated Alice Walton\u2019s net worth at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/alice-walton\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$123.7 billion<\/a> as of December 17, landing her in the <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworth.culturemap.com\/news\/city-life\/alice-walton-richest-woman-forbes\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">No. 1 spot among the world\u2019s richest women<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While she devotes most of her time and energy now to her <a href=\"https:\/\/crystalbridges.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art<\/a> and the new Alice L. Walton School of Medicine &#8211; both in her native Bentonville, Arkansas &#8211; her official residence is still listed as Fort Worth. She has owned homes and ranches in the Fort Worth area.<\/p>\n<p>Two quotes from Alice Walton, a prominent philanthropist, reflect her attitude toward money:<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"60666\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"27b591e70492f6a15c4a304ebe28b6d2\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201600%201200'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/alice-walton-olivia-walton-annie-leibovitz-and-awol-erizku-crystal-bridges.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"Alice Walton, Olivia Walton, Annie Leibovitz, and Awol Erizku, Crystal Bridges\"\/> Alice Walton (second from left) Olivia Walton, Annie Leibovitz, and Awol Erizku at a 2023 event at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.             Photo by Wesley Hitt\/Getty Images         <\/p>\n<p>In second place behind the Waltons on Bloomberg\u2019s list of the world\u2019s richest families is the United Arab Emirates <strong>Al Nahyan<\/strong> family ($335.9 billion), and at No. 3 is Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Saud family ($213.6 billion). The Al Saudi royal family derives most of its wealth from oil giant Saudi Aramco, whose Americas headquarters is in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in the Walton family\u2019s fortune is tied to the roughly 20 percent spike in <a href=\"https:\/\/stock.walmart.com\/stock-data\/historical-data\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Walmart\u2019s stock price<\/a> from mid-December 2024 to mid-December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart, the world\u2019s largest retailer, rang up revenue of <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.walmart.com\/news\/2025\/11\/20\/walmart-releases-q3-fy26-earnings\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$500 billion<\/a> during the first nine months of its current budget year, which ends January 31. That puts the retailer on track to likely beat its most recent annual revenue of <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.walmart.com\/news\/2025\/04\/24\/walmart-releases-2025-annual-report-and-proxy-statement\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$681 million<\/a>. Walmart\u2019s revenue for the current budget year is expected to total roughly $687 billion \u2014 a financial result that could lift the retailer\u2019s stock price even more and, thus, lift the family\u2019s wealth.<\/p>\n<p>The Walton family isn\u2019t the only family among the world\u2019s 25 wealthiest families with ties to Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The children of <strong>Dan Duncan<\/strong>, co-founder of Houston-based oil and gas pipeline company Enterprise Products Partners, sit at No. 24 on the new Bloomberg list, with a combined net worth of $48 billion. That makes them the richest family in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The four children \u2014 Houston billionaires Dannine Avara, Scott Duncan, Milane Frantz, and Randa Duncan Williams \u2014 inherited their father\u2019s stake in the company following his death in 2010. Williams, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/the-stand-up-desk\/texas-monthly-new-owner-randa-duncan-williams\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">owner of Texas Monthly magazine<\/a>, is the only one of the children who\u2019s involved in the business; she chairs the board of Enterprise Products Partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s hard to imagine, but the retail chain co-founded by the legendary Sam Walton has brought Fort Worth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":454222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,4219,7371,7372,7709,202901,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-454221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-holidays","13":"tag-porch-pirates","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115737310324753365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}