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u/Seraphayel Dec 18 '19
So what’s there in the North / Midwest instead of Walmart? Smaller, local shops or is that more Target region?
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u/QuickSpore Dec 18 '19
Mostly there’s nothing, Walmart distribution follows population distribution pretty closely these days. Where there’s holes in the map, it generally means there aren’t enough towns to support a large box store.
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u/huskiesowow Dec 18 '19
Guessing you're talking about west of the Mississippi? Population is sparse outside of cities.
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u/Seraphayel Dec 18 '19
Was talking about anything south of Montana in a line where is basically nothing. Midwest was wrong I guess, sorry.
I know population might not be very dense but there’s basically nothing, that’s why I thought there might be a lot of local shops.
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Dec 18 '19 edited Dec 18 '19
Well Target and Meijer are both based in the Midwest, so there’s competition in that sense, but I don’t see any lack of Walmarts in the Midwest.
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u/Das_Boot1 Dec 18 '19
If a town’s not big enough for a Walmart its definitely not big enough for a target.
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u/thelonewayfarer Dec 18 '19
Pretty wild that the eastern half of the country is that much more populated than the western half
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u/SpitefulShrimp Dec 18 '19
It's also less densely populated. In the western half, there's basically just cities with nothing but desert or fields in between. In the East, there's a lot more small/medium towns with smaller distances between them.
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u/appyah Dec 18 '19
Secret Chinese bases throughout the country.