Not that we're advocating a return to the cave, but it's awesome sometimes to ponder the amount physical Earth taken up by cookie-cutter concrete.
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]]>Maybe they should bulldoze manhattan and actually make it a giant indoor walmart? It's headed that way anyways.
]]>This chart shows ranked global sales in dollar volume (not store space):
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Check the store numbers, Carrefour is at 12,000 next to Walmart's 6,000 (store sizes are different, of course).
]]>From www - dfwairport - com / visitor / facts . htm :
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At the time DFW was built, it was the largest and costliest airport in the world: $700 million spent and 17,500 acres - bigger than the island of Manhattan
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]]>For all their acreage, what does WalMart contribute to the nation? Low quality merchandise.
What we are talking about is a waste of space. Land is perhaps our rarest resource (after freshwater), and we are devoting huge amounts of it to giant retailers that provide us with cheap crap.
]]>Looks like Apu is racking up.
]]>Are there really that many Blockbusters in the world and they take up that much space? THAT'S the scary part of this graph.
]]>Pretty does not mean "useful", unfortuntaely. The lack of decent comparisons -- e.g., everything's of a different type, so ti isn't "comparison of big box retailers", "fast food chains", etc -- makes it utterly worthless.
]]>manhattan isn't all that big really... not a terribly impressive comparison, perhaps?
]]>What about Home Depot? Those things are everwhere, and they're freakin' huge.
]]>Plus these acreages are not really much. Ive worked on farms and ranches in TX that are not measured in such small entities as acres...they are measured in Sq. Miles. Walmarts 18,000 acres is only 28 sq. miles which is not much when you look t the number of stores and their parking lots.
]]>Also...is this just the in-store space? Or does it count parking lots?
]]>If I'm reading the chart correctly . . . are there actually more Wendys than Burger King now (although the Wendys seem to take up a less overall acreage)?
]]>What about Target? What about Macy's who have multiple stories? etc. etc.
]]>That is a ridiculous graph. Does Wal-Mart really take up about three times as much land than the nearest competitor?
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