Tariq Ibraham, owner of Evapor8, a hookah lounge and vapor boutique, blows water vapor from an e-cigarette after a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Neonopolis in downtown Las Vegas Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013. Store manager Ahmed Tebha looks on at right.
Friday, March 20, 2015 | 2 a.m.
The chic shops lining the Strip may be big draws among tourists, but they’re hardly Nevada’s most popular retail destinations, according to a report from the Huffington Post and Yelp.
The collaboration found that video game stores are the most common retail businesses in the state, with their presence about 402 percent higher in Nevada than in other states.
Guns and ammo, adult stores and pawn shops were among the other most popular, though perhaps not surprising, store types in the Silver State.
Yelp mined data from their expansive online store listings to calculate the percentage of different types of businesses compared to the total number of store listings in each state. It then compared those percentages with national averages to determine the top 10 most disproportionately common stores in each state.
Take a look at Nevada’s 10 most popular store types below, and click here for a complete listing of common stores in every state.
Video Game Stores — 402 percent higher than national average
Plus Size Fashion — 355 percent higher than national average
Wigs — 347 percent higher than the national average
Vape Shops — 325 percent higher than national average
Guns & Ammo — 308 percent higher than national average
Adult — 280 percent higher than national average
Outlet Stores — 264 percent higher than national average
Hats — 243 percent higher than national average
Pawn Shops — 242 percent higher than national average
Leather Goods — 240 percent higher than national average
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