Whole Foods versus WalMart
This image has been bouncing around teh Intertubez this week. Perhaps you’ve seen it:
This tweet from Jarrett Barrios credits someone else, but we can’t find an earlier use of the map. (Could be this,) It’s a lovely image that clearly sets up Real Bay Area versus Not the Real Bay Area, with the oddball exception of the WalMart in Mountain View. Other than that, It’s 280 versus 880.
Best comment on this map: Mountain View’s town motto is "Even our poor people are rich." Don’t know if that’s true, but the Whole Foods and the WalMart are less than a block apart.
Note: Google Maps only creates ten pins per image. Those little red dots are additional location, location, locations. So yes there are Whole Foods stores, 3 of them, in Marin.
We’d like to know if you can you come up with other easy-to-map measures for RBA versus Not the RBA.
March 14th, 2013 at 6:36 am
We’ve also got a Walmart a couple blocks from a Whole Foods on Almaden now. The former seems to have become a favorite of Santa Cruz Mountains hillbillies.
March 14th, 2013 at 6:44 am
Better watch out.
A new Whole Foods is opening in Fremont.
It is termed as the “Anchor for the New Downtown”
I hope they sell Indian food there!
March 14th, 2013 at 7:07 am
According to Google Maps, there are fewer realtors in “Real Bay Area, CA” than not. Also, less stress and more ponies.
March 15th, 2013 at 7:50 am
Sure Stanford produces some nice coeds, but if you want to find girls dressed in tube tops, Walmart is the place to go.
March 15th, 2013 at 8:27 am
Coeds? When did people last use that word conversationally, on the zeppelin to Abyssinia? It’s a particularly ridiculous term these days when the typical college student is a woman.
March 15th, 2013 at 9:01 am
“Definition of COED: a female student in a coeducational institution”
March 15th, 2013 at 10:56 am
For the record – the Walmart was there several years before the Whole Foods in Mountain View. But now the whole Walmart shopping center (used to be a Sears and Mervyn’s-centered-strip-mall years ago) is being completely rebuilt into expensive apartments and shops. I think the Walmart may have to move, huh?