{"id":1795,"date":"2013-01-03T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2013-01-03T13:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T18:00:02","slug":"the-united-states-of-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/03\/the-united-states-of-walmart\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States of Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1796\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/united-states-of-walmart.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1796\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1796\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/united-states-of-walmart.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"1418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/united-states-of-walmart.png 940w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/united-states-of-walmart-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/united-states-of-walmart-678x1024.png 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corporate.walmart.com\/\">Walmart<\/a> opened its first store in Rogers, Arkansas, back in 1962. From there it spread slowly through the South East. By 1986, twenty five years later, Walmart had 817 stores in the continental U.S. As of 2010, Walmart had 4,384 stores covering the entire country, including Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico, but heavily concentrated in the East Coast and part of the Mid West.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_companies_by_revenue\">world&#8217;s third largest public corporation<\/a>, preceded only by Dutch Shell Company y Exxon Mobil.<\/p>\n<p>For the interactive map, visit: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2010\/04\/07\/watching-the-growth-of-walmart-now-with-100-more-sams-club\/\">Flowing Data: Watching the growth of Walmart<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='The United States of Walmart' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/03\/the-united-states-of-walmart\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='The United States of Walmart' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/03\/the-united-states-of-walmart\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='The United States of Walmart' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/03\/the-united-states-of-walmart\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='The United States of Walmart' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/03\/the-united-states-of-walmart\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart opened its first store in Rogers, Arkansas, back in 1962. From there it spread slowly through the South East. By 1986, twenty five years later, Walmart had 817 stores in the continental U.S. As of 2010, Walmart had 4,384 stores covering the entire country, including Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico, but heavily concentrated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='The United States of Walmart' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/03\/the-united-states-of-walmart\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='The United States of Walmart' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/03\/the-united-states-of-walmart\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='The United States of Walmart' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/03\/the-united-states-of-walmart\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='The United States of Walmart' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/03\/the-united-states-of-walmart\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,32,14],"tags":[540,578,579,577,225,576],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}