The Growth of WalMart and Sam's Club

[Garnet]

It looks like the spread of a disease!

http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/


This website is way cool, though.

[BioBeing]

Wow! Just, wow.

[munnki]

Should read The Metastazes of Wal-Mart then

:p

[Dendrast]

I'm disappointed it doesn't show their growth in Canada also. I seem to recall a few years back, in Quebec, a store voted to unionise, and the Walmart closed, "unable to afford to stay open", one might assume from having to pay a living wage.

[DMB]

So is that what Brother Sam Singleton is referring to in the video I posted here (http://www.secularcafe.org/showthread.php?p=78215&#post78215)?

[Free in Freeport]

Brings to mind chicken pox.

[lpetrich]

Check out these maps of US population density:

File:US population map.png (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/US_population_map.png)
File:USA 2000 population density.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USA_2000_population_density.png)

WalMart stores now closely track US population density.

[Daynna]

It is true. These days you just EXPECT any town over a certain size to have a Wal-Mart. I grew up in Arkansas where it all began. A town had finally made it when it got its own Wal-Mart. :)

[Ray Moscow]

It is true. These days you just EXPECT any town over a certain size to have a Wal-Mart. I grew up in Arkansas where it all began. A town had finally made it when it got its own Wal-Mart. :)

And then all its other stores closed down ...

[Seeker630]

I have two within an 8 mile radius of my home. We used to have a K-Mart, but that closed down last year. We are running out of options to Wally World here, that's for certain. We have a Target and a Beall's, but that's about it unless I want to drive up the coast 15 miles. Beall's is only in the Southern states I think.

I've seen several other businesses close in the last two or three years, but I think those were due more to the shitty economy than anything to do with WalMart.