{"id":2335,"date":"2006-05-12T07:52:38","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T07:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2006-05-12T07:52:38","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T07:52:38","slug":"wal-marts_site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2335","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart&#8217;s Site Selection Process &#038; Distribution Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2006\/05\/where_does_walm.html\">Tyler Cowen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The placement of Wal-Mart stores has followed a spatial diffusion model.  K-Mart, in contrast, scattered its stores across the country.  Here is more.  Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EGzHBtoVvpc\">video showing<\/a> the spread of Wal-Mart, well worth watching and short.  It is the best single lesson in economic geography you will receive.  Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/\">http:\/\/kottke.org<\/a> for the pointer.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Cowen: The placement of Wal-Mart stores has followed a spatial diffusion model. K-Mart, in contrast, scattered its stores across the country. Here is more. Here is a video showing the spread of Wal-Mart, well worth watching and short. It is the best single lesson in economic geography you will receive. Thanks to http:\/\/kottke.org for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}