Wow thats bad when those evil fucks wont touch it.
Walmart says it is not advertising on social platform X
Submitted 11 months ago by King@r.nf to technology@lemmy.world
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Coldgoron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
SamXavia@kbin.run 11 months ago
Shows really how far it has fallen.
BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 11 months ago
Does walmart even need to advertise? They have such a grip on retailspace they just need to exist to make money.
Decoy321@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They advertise to retain their market share. Even though they’re everywhere, they still have plenty of competition, and those competitors advertise.
figaro@lemdro.id 11 months ago
Same with Oreos. They already won. The marketing team can go home.
captain_oni@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And Alexander wept for there were no more worlds to conquer!
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 11 months ago
False. Great Value fake Oreos are as good, if not better. Trader Joe’s Joe Joe’s are okay. Oreos are overpriced AF.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A lot of people worked very hard on this.
ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Too bad the product is execrable today.
rambaroo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can still get hydrox in some places
atrielienz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
Nastybutler@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, Walmart can go fuck itself. Not for this, but for it’s other terrible business practices
radix@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Heartbreaking: The Worst
PersonCompany You Know Just Made A Great PointS_204@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I found myself agreeing with something Ben fucking Shapiro said the other day and I still feel dirty.
I hate when I see the broken clock at the exact moment it’s right.
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
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.
reversebananimals@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
saltesc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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?”
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
cedarmesa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]JustZ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
nomous@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I always just walk by, 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.
Corgana@startrek.website 11 months ago
“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.
Pratai@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Oh the irony.
NewPerspective@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A broken clock is right twice a day so they’re halfway to Broken Clock status at least.
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
[deleted]JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t want self check out going away… I’m far more capable of handling my check out more accurately, faster, and with bagging things appropriately. The bottom of the barrel they hire there is so fucking exasperating to deal with that I’ll just go elsewhere
Pika@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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 nit a job I would want again in the first place.
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s funny, thank you
rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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.
Chobbes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Does it mean there are fewer ads, or just less variety?
Infynis@midwest.social 11 months ago
They’re probably just lower quality. If advertisers keep pulling out, soon Twitter will just be dick pills and hot singles in your area
kool_newt@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Hope you like pillows!
Haha@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No one cares
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 11 months ago
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.
The original article contains 267 words, the summary contains 203 words. Saved 24%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
but hurled expletives against advertisers that suspended their ads, accusing them of “blackmail.”
Even if there was a totally illegitimate and unethical reason people were mad at X, that’s still not “blackmail”. That’s just business. No business wants to have their brand tarnished or lose money. That’s the opposite goal of advertising. No business would continue to lose money in pursuit of “free speech”. Only Musk will do that.
LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lawsuit coming in 3…2….1….
TigrisMorte@kbin.social 11 months ago
"Too Nazi" for the walmarts is a rather high bar.