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Here's The Difference Between Wal-Mart America And Whole Foods America

Wal-Mart country and Whole Foods country are very different places.

Morgan Stanley is out with a retail "atlas" that breaks down retail stores by geography. Based on its data, we made the following maps showing the number of Wal-Marts and Whole Foods per 1 million people in each state.

Here's Wal-Mart: You can see it dominates in the center of the country. Arkansas, where Wal-Mart was born, has the most per capita with Oklahoma a close second. Wal-Mart is much less popular on the coasts.

walmarts per million people
walmarts per million people

Business Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from Morgan Stanley

Here's Whole Foods: It's not that big in the center of the country, but it's huge on the coasts. Colorado is also huge.

whole foods per million people
whole foods per million people

Business Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from Morgan Stanley

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There are, of course, far more Wal-Marts than Whole Foods in each state overall, but it's fun to see where the stores are more and less concentrated. Bottom line: Whole Foods America is much more coastal, while Wal-Mart America is much more central.

Here are tables showing the number and the population-adjusted number of Wal-Marts and Whole Foods stores in each state:

walmart table
walmart table

Business Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from Morgan Stanley

whole foods table
whole foods table

Business Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from Morgan Stanley



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