Walmart says it is not advertising on social platform X
Walmart says it is not advertising on social platform X
Walmart said on Friday it is not advertising on social media platform X, one of the latest brands to say it has dropped the Elon Musk-owned site.
"Too Nazi" for the walmarts is a rather high bar.
Wow thats bad when those evil fucks wont touch it.
Shows really how far it has fallen.
Does walmart even need to advertise? They have such a grip on retailspace they just need to exist to make money.
They advertise to retain their market share. Even though they're everywhere, they still have plenty of competition, and those competitors advertise.
Same with Oreos. They already won. The marketing team can go home.
I actually was wondering too. Back in the day they did because they were competing with so many other bargain department stores. But a lot of those went out of business and Walmart far outpaced most of the rest because of how many locations they have especially in smaller communities where they've even supplanted grocery stores and so on. At this rate people shop at Walmart because they have to mostly.
Well, Walmart can go fuck itself. Not for this, but for it's other terrible business practices
It’s image and profits people, not conscience. Advertising on a failing social media platform populated by fringe idiots and bots isn’t profitable. Walmart is still Walmart.
It would be nicer if advertisers were pulling out because there simply is no audience on twitter anymore. I just wish more people had principles.
While I don't believe them, that's why Walmart says they stopped.
"We aren't advertising on X as we've found other platforms to better reach our customers," a Walmart spokesperson said.
2nd paragraph of the article.
Twitter exists as my disassociation filter. Without it, I have no sly and ethical way of enquiry if a person is a moron, "Do you use Twitter?" It needs to stay.
Eh, too many people are oblivious to what's going on. A significant number have just used it for so long that it's hard for them to let go. It took me a hot minute to get over Reddit last summer, though my app of choice not working certainly helped. It's best to remember that, like reddit, this user base is not representative of the general population.
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Just walk right past and say no thank you. They are trained not to argue with you. Doesn't stop some of them from trying. Keep walking. Hopefully, you haven't stolen anything and their loss prevention guy comes out and does a flying kick into your spine, paralyzing you, taking you away from your lucrative career and depriving your loved ones of your consortium and you get to sue them like Tracy Morgan.
I always just walk by. I'll walk around a line of people waiting because frankly I didn't go through the self-checkout to stand in a line. They usually don't even say anything but one time a (young) lady yelled "ok stealers!" at my partner and I. It was hilarious.
Once I pay for the stuff our interaction is over. I gathered everything up, I paid for it, I bagged it; our interaction is done. If you think I stole something call the cops.
Same, walk right by with a "no thanks"
"Greeter" is such a messed up job position. Like instead of paying your miserable workers a living wage and actually smile at work, it's cheaper for Walmart to just hire someone to stand right at the entrance giving a "happy" first impression.
There's been 3 or 4 mass exoduses of advertisers from X. There have been multiple shit-hitting-the-fan moments that Walmart shrugged off.
I have literally been in a Walmart as a 3rd party and the fucking store caught on fire and no one did anything. Like the ceiling tiles were literally creeping with flames and they didn't even seem to announce an edit plan to anyone until I decided I wasn't going to die in flames as a merchandiser
Oh the irony.
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Today, Walmart has reached Broken Clock standards.
See you tomorrow!
they lose a lot of customer base by doing this though. Like I personally won't enter a building that doesn't have self check, just too annoying to have to deal with a person, this is as someone who worked for 8 years as a cashier/retail at big box stores.
I get that it "saves jobs" not having self check but, honestly that's not a job I would want again in the first place.
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Twitter is a ridiculous place, and no one should use it. That said, another way to read all of this is “there are fewer ads on Twitter” and that is the nugget of corn in this turd.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Dec 1 (Reuters) - Walmart (WMT.N) said on Friday it is not advertising on social media platform X, one of the latest brands to say it has dropped the Elon Musk-owned site.
The platform has struggled to retain advertisers since Musk acquired the company in October 2022, and faced a fresh exodus in recent weeks over rising concern about antisemitic content.
The user had also referenced the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory, which purports that Jewish people and leftists are engineering the ethnic and cultural replacement of white populations with non-white immigrants that will lead to a "white genocide."
Musk apologized for his post during an interview at a New York Times DealBook event on Wednesday, but hurled expletives against advertisers that suspended their ads, accusing them of "blackmail."
An executive at a major ad-buying agency, who declined to be named, said X ad sales representatives appeared frustrated in the aftermath of Musk's outburst against brands and did not have much to say in conversations.
Major brands including Apple (AAPL.O), Walt Disney (DIS.N) and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) also suspended their ads on X this month following a report from liberal watchdog group Media Matters, which said ads had appeared next to antisemitic posts.
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Lawsuit coming in 3…2….1….
No one cares