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[-] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 97 points 7 months ago

"Too Nazi" for the walmarts is a rather high bar.

[-] Coldgoron@lemmy.world 52 points 7 months ago

Wow thats bad when those evil fucks wont touch it.

[-] SamXavia@kbin.run 17 points 7 months ago

Shows really how far it has fallen.

[-] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 37 points 7 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 18 points 7 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 16 points 7 months ago

Same with Oreos. They already won. The marketing team can go home.

[-] captain_oni@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

And Alexander wept for there were no more worlds to conquer!

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 4 points 7 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.

[-] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago
[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

Life is a JoJo reference

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

In my part of the world there is no other cookie like Oreo's.

[-] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Too bad the product is execrable today.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

A lot of people worked very hard on this.

[-] rambaroo@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

You can still get hydrox in some places

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 7 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 32 points 7 months ago

Well, Walmart can go fuck itself. Not for this, but for it's other terrible business practices

[-] radix@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

Heartbreaking: The Worst ~~Person~~ Company You Know Just Made A Great Point

[-] S_204@lemm.ee 17 points 7 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.

[-] buddhabound@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

That was bait. They say something borderline reasonable now, and you listen. Eventually, they say something weird and you let it slide. These people weasel themselves into reasonable people's lives and ruin them, day after day.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Every now and again that muppet will say something sensical, until you apply the context in which he's talking, then it's all aboard the crazy train to whatthefucksville.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Oh god, what?

[-] RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 21 points 7 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.

[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 17 points 7 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 9 points 7 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.

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[-] NewPerspective@lemmy.world 9 points 7 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 1 points 7 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

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago

Oh the irony.

[-] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 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 6 points 7 months ago

Does it mean there are fewer ads, or just less variety?

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 7 points 7 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

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago

And they'd find their best customer in muskyboy himself

[-] radix@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Pillow magnates and catheter cowboys.

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

Soon it's going to be boner pills and prepper gear like Alex Jones.

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 7 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.


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[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 points 7 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.

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