Walmart Spreads Like a Virus

Posted Oct 10, 2007 to Economics by Nathan  /  1 response

Watch Walmart quickly expand like a deadly virus from the movie Outbreak. It's particularly interesting to see Walmart "infect" an entire small region with multiple new stores opening at the same time in one area. There looks to be somewhere around 30 stores opening per year (rough guess) across the country, so I wonder what the map looks like now. It's probably all blue except in those deserted Midwest regions. I wonder what the world map looks like.

Random quote:

When I lived in Maine, there wasn't much to do, so when we were bored on a Friday night, we'd go hang out at Walmart.

That's kind of sad, but uh, if that's your thing, well, no, still sad.

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  • Cover Manhattan and Then Some With All the World's Walmarts
    Oct 16, 2007, 4:42 am

    [...] Speaking of Walmart, if we took all of the Walmarts in the world and clumped them all together, they’d cover Manhattan (with some stores sinking in the water). Walmart is the bottom bubbles; McDonald’s is represented by the second from the bottom set. [...]

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