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Related: About this forumThis depressing animated map shows Walmart taking over America
Heres an unsettling look at the Walmart-ification of the U.S., starting in Arkansas in 1962 and ending with total domination more than 3,000 stores across the country. First the chain spreads throughout the state, then the Southeast. Then Walmart crawls north and west, looking for all the world like an invasive species:
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If you can believe it, there are even more Walmarts today. That map, by Excel guru Daniel Ferry, only goes through 2006; for a similar map that shows Walmarts growth through 2010, when it hit 4,393 stores in the U.S., check out Nathan Yaus version*.
The problem is not that Americans are horrible people for buying affordable food. Its easy to shame Walmart shoppers with thinly veiled classism. Its harder to propose solutions to fix the food system, eradicate food deserts, protect small businesses, and pay people a living wage so they can afford fresh fare at the farmers market. But that doesnt mean we shouldnt try!
http://grist.org/list/map-walmart-stores-america/
The problem is not that Americans are horrible people for buying affordable food. Its easy to shame Walmart shoppers with thinly veiled classism. Its harder to propose solutions to fix the food system, eradicate food deserts, protect small businesses, and pay people a living wage so they can afford fresh fare at the farmers market. But that doesnt mean we shouldnt try!
* http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/
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This depressing animated map shows Walmart taking over America (Original Post)
Joe Shlabotnik
Mar 2014
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LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)1. It looks like blue mold creeping all over an orange
grilled onions
(1,957 posts)2. Fight It One Item At A Time
Every time you purchase that box of cookies, that head of lettuce or that loaf of bread elsewhere you have helped the cause.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)3. It spreads like a cancer.
Cuz it is one.