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One PE-owned conglomerate (Sonic + Arby's + Dunkin') controls 11.2% of US fast food listings — almost matching McDonald's 13.0% alone.
We mapped Meijer, Publix, Wegmans, and WinCo state by state. Michigan and Florida each run ~2x their runner-up — real regional grocery monopolies, measured.
We mapped 7 retail chains across all 50 states by Google Maps listings. Raw counts favor Texas everywhere — per capita, Mississippi and DC actually lead.
We mapped 8,705 US pawn shops. FirstCash and EZPAWN, the two public consolidators, capture under a third — and the density map lines up with unbanked America.
32,111 US dollar stores, 99.6% owned by just three companies. One was just sold to private equity, and has closed 350 stores in 10 months.
We mapped 14,614 Starbucks and 7,748 Dunkin' locations. The Northeast-Dunkin'/West-Starbucks split isn't a stereotype — it's a 5-to-1 divide in real data.
Rite Aid closed every store in October 2025. This dataset still shows about 1,100 of them. Listing data cannot see a chain die.