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It's fascinating how the coverage map is so drastically different from the typical US population map. In particular, they completely cover the east half of the
by hytdstd 5y ago
It's fascinating how the coverage map is so drastically different from the typical US population map. In particular, they completely cover the east half of the US, but not the west.
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoGive them time. They will eat the entire country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIqC5y1zm-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIqC5y1zm-4 There does seem to be an opportunity to bring the same type of store to the western states but the low population portion in the interior west might keep it from being economical to operate distribution centers that incrementally cover over more and more western territory. They'd need to invest in a distribution network in the western states that were mostly independent from the eastern ones. That might be too much risk for their low margin business model.
- Hinrik 5y agoDrastically different? It looks almost identical to a map of the U.S. where each dot represents a town: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapping-population-density-dot-town/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapping-population-density-...
- vel0city 5y agoUh, it seems like it tracks a US population map pretty well. The Western half of the US is largely pretty sparse with only pockets of densely populated cities. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_population_map.png https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_population_map....