Walmart Takeover of US, Want it for India?

 

Walmart Takeover of The US

Walmart, the retail Chain released its earnings recently.

 

It shows how the US has virtually been taken over in an important segment.

 

We do not know at what cost, as yet.

 

Now, India is planning to invite these Groups to India in Retail.

 

How about the small Traders and producers?

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Retail behemoth Walmart released earnings Thursday, and many have used the report as a way to gauge how the American consumer feels. (Still strained, for the record.) That’s because Walmart is the country’s biggest retailer. Take a look at this animated GIF map by Excel Hero that illustrates the wildfire-like spread of Walmart stores that led to its domination of the United States.

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You’ll need an equidistant map like this one, in order to plot the coordinates easily. If anyone knows the mathematics needed to transpose coordinates so they can be plotted on the more common map projections where the border between the USA and Canada is curved, please let me know! I have not figured that out yet.

When using an equidistant map, all you need to do is plot the coordinates on an XY (Scatter) chart. Of course you will need to set the horizontal and vertical axes min and max so that the points are drawn close to accurate. This is easy when your data includes a lot of coastal points (just adjust the axes until those points are barely on land). The included map is calibrated quite well.

For this post I chose to imitate Nathan’s outstanding Wallmart growth movie. While Excel is not up to the task of the Flash animation in his movie, the results are not half bad. In my version you can step through year by year manually with a scroll control, or you can click the Animate button and watch the movie.

http://www.excelhero.com/blog/2010/04/excel-location-mapping.html

 

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