Watch WalMart Spread Across the American Landscape

Posted by: Tim Halbur

31 July 2008 - 12:00pm

Flowing Data used zip codes and other data to create an animated map showing the growth of WalMart from the first store in Arkansas in 1962 until today, when the map is covered with stores.

Spread of WalMart in 1989.

Full Story: Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America

Source: Flowing Data, July 30, 2008

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There is lots of theory, and lots of wonderful mathematics, and even lots of dealmaking. But the financial engineers are not real engineers who take responsibility for the bridges that fall down. They have no notion of a safety factor.

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Watch WalMart Spread Across the American Landscape

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