sweet jesus - the walmart virus

[ourbluenation]

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

map of the US tracking the growth of walmart from 1968 to 2007. The yearis in the lower right side. unbelievable. it is like a virus.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Perhaps, someday, the blight will be eradicated.

[loveable liberal]

2. My family makes do with less...

Rather than darken the doors of walmart. We refuse to purchase anything from Chinamart.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. It is like a virus....EBOLA.

If for nothing else, I am proud of NYC for never letting one of those stores into our boundaries.

[phantom power]

4. I wonder...

if all the instructions necessary to construct a WalMart can be purchased at a WalMart. That would make it an actual virus.

[fla nocount]

5. No instructions needed, big box with two zip codes. n/t

[AndyTiedye]

6. Costco has Pretty Much Whipped Walmart Around Here

There are 5 Costco's in the area, all doing plenty of business,
and one Walmart that never looks very busy at all.

[dysfunctional press]

7. i wonder what the same kind of map would look like for mcdonald's.

as for walmart- i still haven't given them any of my money.

[angrycarpenter]

8. carpet bombed by low prices . nt

[bigwillq]

9. Wow, cool map.

Sickening but cool.

I hardly ever shop at Walmart..once and awhile since their stores forced all others to close and sometimes you have no other choice but to stop by there if you need something quick.

[wicket]

10. Amazing

K & R

[AngryOldDem]

11. I thought the same thing today, when I heard the news that another Walmart....

...one of those big ones south of where I live (and located not five miles from another Walmart) is looking to relocate practically next door to where it currently is, and is looking for the new store to be EVEN BIGGER. It has reassured the township that it is "aggressively pursuing" buyers for the old store. (The township believes this.)

Totally fucking ridiculous. In roughly a ten-mile radius from me there are three Walmart supercenters.