The Wall Street Journal had a good analysis of the possible waning of Wal-Mart earlier this week. But the most fascinating part was the Flash-animated map showing the growth of Wal-Mart outlets in the US over 40 years. You have to think of a spreading epidemic.
Update That link to the map doesn’t seem to work, even though the Journal encourages readers to email it to people. I don’t know whether it’s a temporary outage or something systemic.
The “epidemic” slide worked. Frightening.
Also, I left a comment on your Amity Shlaes post of 2005.
By the way, I’ve just posted on “The Menace of ‘Africom'”.
Michael Blaine
http://www.rudelystamped.blogspot.com/
BTW, WalMart just fell behind Google in market cap.