Locations Of Home Improvement Stores

This repository collects a cross-section of data of Lowe's and Home Depot's store locations across the United States. The following data files are included:

• CBSA.csv - A list of census based statistical areas with selected characteristics.
• census.csv - Selected CDP characteristics
• entry.csv - The actual locations for Lowe's and Home Depot.
• warehouse_loc.csv - Geolocated distribution centers.
• entry_locv2.csv - Warehouse locations merged with entry locations. Also merged with distance from HQ.
• entry_loc3_w_filter.csv - Tries to change geography of the dataset from CDPs to CBSAs

Store locations are often modeled by economists as an "entry game". For more information about this dataset, see the corresponding github repo:
https://github.com/ericschulman/entry_games