Thursday, May 12, 2011

Walmart's Rise to Dominance

This is interesting?  Frightening?

Walmart started slow in 1962 and then spread like wildfire in the southeast, starting in 1970, and then made its way towards the west coast. Sam's Club starts to sprout up in the 1980s with bursts up to present.

Check out this time lapse video.

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

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