A map showing the Growth of Walmart across the United States. Year-by-year, starting in 1962.
It’s like watching a virus grow.
(From FlowingData, via Kottke)
Pretty cool. I would love to see one of these for Starbucks or McDonalds… or deaths or births… would be wild.
no stopping it now. .. ..
i fuckin hate walmart.
Good stuff! I always hoped...green dots over Asia, India should have been glued....
Awesome! Can you say ‘fungus’?
we must stop it. oh no, too late. or is it?
wall-e (which is apparently...most socially relevant movie
Why are there so few Wal*Marts
This is really fun if you don’t have A.D.D. Also, make sure you are not...chromophobe...
18th or 19th WalMart was built off...west coast of Africa.
This is terrifying.
I wonder why they waited so long to hit the northeast and california.