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Very few if any in NYC. Surprisingly I've never actually been yo a wal mart
There is one right on the Nassau/Queens border that is the only Wal Mart I know of near NYC. They have been trying to get into the NYC market for years now, they would love to take over the K-Mart in Penn Station. I doubt it though, that K-Mart does good business and its been there for 20+ years now
In my hometown in grand rapids, mi its a couple of wak marts one supercenter but the area is dominated by meijer who Walmart got there supercenter ideas from meijer has had the supercenter since 1968. There are a few targets no supertargets though.
Now in my adopted hometown geesh there is a Walmart on every corner literally.
It sort of surprised me to read on Wikipedia that Wal-Mart was already very successful in the 80's and the biggest store in America by 1990! As a small child in the 90's I wasn't even aware of what Wal-Mart was, though I did know about Sam's Club. My mom mostly took me and my brother and sister to Target or Kmart when she would take us along with her on errands, this was in California.
Was the west coast one of the last places Wal-mart became successful in? Was it just so huge in the South and lower Midwest that it gives an inaccurate picture of how big it is throughout America in the 80's and 90's? Kmart and Target still seem just as big in a lot of places. Even today, it doesn't seem all that dominant on the west coast, especially compared to everywhere that's further east.
In the Washington DC area, particularly the Maryland side, Walmart has never been popular nor prominent. You have a much better chance of finding Target than Walmart.
In the Washington DC area, particularly the Maryland side, Walmart has never been popular nor prominent. You have a much better chance of finding Target than Walmart.
The first Walmart in the Baltimore area was on RT. 40 Catonsville.
Wal Mart is prevalent in the Chicago area, although the company has few locations within the city itself. My suburb got its first Wal Mart in 1992, and it was almost across the street. Something that was new to me was Wal Mart Express, like a Walgreens but a bit cheaper, inside the city of Chicago. Recently, the Wal Mart in my suburb converted into a supercenter, but has not put up the signage on its store yet. Originally, it did not sell food.
When I went to college, there were three Wal Mart supercenters in a metro of 100K, all 24 hours. It was very convenient, but bad for local business. They built a fourth supercenter 30 minutes north in a different, but still close, town.
For being seen as somewhat of a Redneck state, Wal Mart isn't as huge as places like Missouri or Kansas. Most decent sized towns have one, but they also usually have one or even two grocery chains like Hy-Vee or Super Saver. Even Omaha and Lincoln still have their own local Grocery Chains going strong (No Frills, Bakers, Super Saver, Russ's Market. Anyway Wal Mart wasn't big until the 90's from what heard people tell me (i was born in 89). However, there weren't very many super centers at all in the 90's. I remember as a kid Seward NE had a tiny Wal Mart, and Columbus NE had a decent sized, one, but not a superecenter. Fremont NE had the only supercenter I really remember. It even had mickey d's inside. Even Omaha only had one Wal Mart up on Fort Street. However by the early 2000's the supercenters were going full swing. Now I think every Wal MArt in Nebraska is a Supercenter and Omaha has about 5 supercenters in the city limits, and the burbs like Papillion, Bellevue, Council Bluffs and Blair have them
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