This document outlines a study to find new locations for Walmart Neighborhood Market stores in Minnesota. The author analyzes Walmart locations, census data on income and employment, and drive times to existing stores. Kernel density and location allocation maps are created to identify patterns. Based on this analysis, the author proposes two potential new locations - one in New Hope and one in Minneapolis. These locations were chosen because they are in areas with lower incomes and employment rates, and are not already well-served by existing Walmart or competitor stores.

1. Locating a New Walmart
in Minnesota
By: Andrew Vogel

2. Introduction
 I am going to be looking at Walmart Stores across Minnesota and find prime
locations to build new Walmart's stores. Instead of building large Walmart
convenient stores I will plan on finding locations for Neighborhood Market
Walmart stores which are smaller. Walmart has had a motive of selling
products for cheaper prices than other convenient stores. Since they sell for
the cheapest prices I will be focusing finding areas where a Walmart will be
convenient for families with lower incomes and other factors that play a role
in who shops at Walmart

3. Objective
 My objective in this project is to locate patterns of where Walmart stores are
located in Minnesota.
 I will also look at census patterns from around already built Walmart's and
use this information to find a new location.
 I will create a Network of the roads and Walmart's to find the drive time
(Miles) around Walmart's to find out where their stores are not located.
 Finally I will locate new locations for a few new stores within the counties

4. Study Area
 My study area will start with the
entire Minnesota Region
 After locating all of the stores I
will focus on the Twin Cities area
where the majority of the stores
are located.

5. Methodology
 Locating all Walmart locations by creating a table with Latitude and
Longitude and displaying the X and Y onto my coordinate system
 Creating a Kernel Density Map for the whole state of Minnesota to see if there
is any pattern
 Download Census Data for Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsay and Scott
Counties from 2010 looking at Population, Median Income, Below Poverty
Line, and Parents in Work Force
 Joining Data from Census and data tables
 Download road layers for all counties and merging them together.

6. Methodology (Continued)
 Creating a Network using the road systems and Walmart Locations and
Walmart competitors
 Using this Network to create a 2, 4, and 6 mile road distance from each
facility and create a 1, 2, and 3 mile drive distance from competitors
 Creating mean centers for each census tract using spatial statistics in order to
perform Location Allocation for Walmart and competitors in west metro.
 Creating a Location Allocation with my 16 Walmart and 14 competitors with a
distance of 4 miles.
 Create locations where Walmart's could be built and create another location
allocation to see whether or not they will be good locations

16. Observation
 After looking at all the
census data I found a few
locations to test to see
whether they would be a
good location to build a
new Walmart.
 These locations are located
in Minneapolis, New Hope,
and Wayzata, Minnesota.
 I will determine whether
these location will be good
locations with my final
map.

17. Two New Locations of Walmart’s in West
Metro
New Hope LocationMinneapolis Location

18. Conclusion
 In Conclusion I found two prime locations to build a new Walmart
Neighborhood Market.
 Based off all the census data, network analysis in drive time (Miles) and
location allocation, I located in new Walmart's in New Hope and Minneapolis
 The other Walmart located in Wayzata could be a good locations since there
aren’t any in the area but it seems that there are too many competitive
stores that will take the majority of the business.

19. Questions?
 Comments