Most Unusually Popular Store In Your State

The Huffington Post and Yelp collaborated to produce this interesting map of popular store types in the United States. The store categories are general, such as “bookstores” or “outdoor gear.”

Each state’s most popular top ten was listed by The Huffington Post, but the map shows which category took the top spot in each state.

The data for the map was compiled using the listings on review site, Yelp. The Huffington Post explains the process:

Yelp delved into its online catalogue of store listings and calculated the percentage of a given type of shopping business relative to the total number of business listings in that state.

Then, it compared those percentages with each type of store’s representation nationwide and produced a list of the top 10 most disproportionally common stores in each of the 50 states.”

One must wonder why the fuck Kentuckians need so much SWIMWEAR.  Here are the Top 4 stores in the Bluegrass State;

Kentucky

  1. Swimwear — 482% higher than national average.
  2. Comic Books — 418% higher than national average.
  3. Vinyl Records — 329% higher than national average.
  4. Guns & Ammo — 295%  higher than national average.

 So, a good day in Kentucky is drinking moonshine (not listed, but it’s a given), while wearing a swimsuit and your fat gut hanging out somewhere in da hills, and listening to Country Joe & The Fish on yer mamma’s 40 year old record player, as you’re loading your Daniel Boone rifle. Then, in the evening for intellectual stimulation, you read an Archie’s comic book.

This explains a LOT about our two beloved posters; Billy and Bea Lever.

 

Bigger map, and full list here; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/24/most-popular-store-state_n_6736916.html

 

Author: Stucky

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MuckAbout

I always knew the Dakota’s and Nebraska were home to most intellectuals. I suppose the long winters and lack of sunshine are the cause..

MA

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

S.C…Fireworks…well we like to watch things go boom…j Fort Sumter !

Thinker

Hilarious on so many levels…

Bostonbob

Massachusetts, Framing, really Framing. WTF.
Bob.

Stephanie Shepard

Alabama’s Flea Market is no surprise to me. We have the world’s longest yard sale which is a 93 mile stretch along Highway 127, from Gadsen to Chattanooga.

Peaceout
Peaceout

What’s the deal with all the car battery stores? Really?

mrk030
mrk030

Bullshit puff piece. No way “golf” is the most popular store in NJ. These fucking idiots are useless.

card802
card802

Michigan! Beer brewing supplies! We do have some great micobrews, so no surprise there.

Smoke Jensen
Smoke Jensen

The world according to Yelp. I’m not buying it.

ASIG
ASIG

Formal Wear – Mississippi

Sorry Mississippi, nice clothes doesn’t totally camouflage your fat ass.

Dutchman
Dutchman

Car batteries really don’t last in hot weather. Heat is much worse on them than cold.

Here in Minnesota, I thought the Communist Manifesto / Metro Sexual book stores would have been on the list.

AC
AC

Why is ‘knitting supplies’ in Alaska weird? Nine months of winter.

I wish Utah had been ‘brewing supplies’ or ‘coffee shops’ – that would be funny.

Also, I think ‘car battery store’ must be code for ‘meth franchise.’

El Siete
El Siete

OMG, I always have to stop at Bowlins near Lordsburg – they have a great selection of fireworks year round, It’s a pyromaniac’s dream. And they assure you it is not illegal to transport them across state lines. Las Vegas also has fireworks stores. America, Fuck Yeah.

TE
TE

Oh my, for one it is YELP which can only be accessed through a smart phone.

How many geezers, or even 45 year olds, are Yelping for reviews, or giving them and “checking in”? My guess is that this “data” is skewed 100 degrees into Millennials. Rely on it accordingly.

What it does do, though, is to give you a 100% pure snapshot into the marketing-fueled wants of that generation geographically. It has been many a year since a generation was so guaranteed to have to prioritize an ever decreasing share of the economic/money pot. The next bazillionairre is going to figure out how to capitalize on that.

@Stephanie, that garage sale runs all the way to Michigan. It spits and sputters but throughout Indiana used to be pretty solid. US 127 is primarily a 2 lane road that has been artificially elevated to “highway” status. I’ve been on 127 as far as about 100 miles north of the Indiana border, then back on it for a while in Kentucky, and once decided to take it when I was vacationing in Chattanooga. US 127 is the north-south route for those that hate expressways and big box stores/restaurants of I-75.

Helluva scenic route though. When younger we would pile into a car and head south on 127 until the gas was half gone, then we turn around and randomly choose side roads on the return trip home. Rural living in an past-agri, past-industrial age.

TE
TE

Shoot, I’m sorry, NOT Indiana, but Ohio. I just had a major brain fart, need to go eat some fat.

I grew up about 20 miles east and a little north of the spot where Indiana, Michigan and Ohio meet. 127 was my backyard.

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