Watch The Spread of Walmart Across The Country In One Horrifying GIF

When big box stores (I’ll leave it to you to decide just WHICH big-box stores) come to town, they almost always shut down all the mom-and-pop stores in the area they open in. And it’s a pretty simple formula:1) Move in.2) Open doors with lower prices than anyone else.3) Get employees on welfare and Medicaid…

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Brandon Weber

Jan 27, 2014

Note: This map only goes to 2006; it’s much worse now, believe it or not.

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