Walmart Store Opening Data

Contains spatial and temporal information about Walmart store openings, from the first opening on March 1, 1962 until August 1, 2006.

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Format

A data frame with 3251 rows and 7 variables:

opendate

Date: opening date for the store

st.address

character: street address of the store

city

character: city of the store

state

character: state of the store

long

numeric: longitude of the store

lat

numeric: latitude of the store

type

character: store type (Wal-MartStore, SuperCenter, DistributionCenter)

Details

See QSS Table 5.5.

References

• Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.

• Thomas J. Holmes (2011) “The diffusion of Wal-Mart and economies of density.” Econometrica, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 253–302. doi = 10.3982/ECTA7699