Utahns who visit Walmart leave with personal travel care kits more than anything else.

A new report from Walmart unveiled which items Americans in each state buy more than anything else. For Utahns, travel care kits topped the list.

The company tracks all of its shoppers’ purchases on Walmart.com and its 4,700 stores.

Walmart collected each state’s top 25 best-selling items in 2017 and then identified “interesting top sellers” from each state. Multiple news sites referred to these top-sellers as “bizzare” or “surprising” items.

Some noteworthy findings:

  • New Yorkers buy Cheetos more than anything else, while Californians buy protein powder and people from North Carolina buy mayonnaise more than any other items.
  • Idaho’s top-selling item was the “My Little Pony Mini Collection.”
  • Flannel shirts led the way in Wyoming, while M&M’s Peanut Chocolate candy topped the list in Colorado.
  • Dog treats were the top seller in Nevada, while the trendy LOL Surprise! Dolls led the way in Colorado.

You can see the entire report at Walmart.com.

Walmart collected each state’s top 25 best-selling items in 2017 and then identified “interesting top sellers” from each of the states.
Walmart collected each state’s top 25 best-selling items in 2017 and then identified “interesting top sellers” from each of the states. | Walmart.com

Business Insider created an easy-to-understand map graphic of the data to show which “bizzare” item each state favored over others.

This data differs from previous Walmart.com data released last year, which found Utah’s most-bought product on the retailer’s website in 2016 to be chocolate, according to Business Insider.

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Like Alabama and Rhode Island, which saw cake mixes and Jell-O pudding cups, respectively, as top items, Utah’s population commonly bought a sweet product.

Data from FourSquare last year revealed that Walmart was Utah’s most popular shopping chain. FourSquare, an app that allows people to check-in from various places, used its own data for the study.

Walmart also topped lists in Vermont, South Dakota, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New Mexico, Montana, Michigan, Maryland, Hawaii, Arizona and Alaska.

However, a previous report identified Forever21 as Utah’s most popular store.

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