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.
    • Decoy321@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      They advertise to retain their market share. Even though they’re everywhere, they still have plenty of competition, and those competitors advertise.

    • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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.

      • S_204@lemm.eeEnglish
        17·
        1 year 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.worldEnglish
          15·
          1 year 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.eeEnglish
          9·
          1 year 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.

  • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year 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.caEnglish
    192·
    1 year 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.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year 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.worldEnglish
      37·
      1 year 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?” It needs to stay.

      • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        1 year 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.

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year 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.worldEnglish
      91·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
      4·
      1 year 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.

  • NewPerspective@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year 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.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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

      • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        1 year 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 not a job I would want again in the first place.

          • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Being on the other end of that, not that this makes it any better, but a lot of facilities are moving over to a more assisted intelligence model for the self check out process so there may be a security person involved but the machine will flag the central system which will have the security guy look at it whenever they’re in

            It’s creepy how far Tech goes

            Update: I just realized that apparently it didn’t update the link from the last one I looked so your article basically said the same thing lmao

      • JJROKCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year 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.worksEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          For me it’s not the cashier’s fault, I’m just generally an antisocial and I’ve done it long enough that I’m faster than most of them anyway plus I’m allowed to do it how I want and since I’m the one actually paying there’s a vested interest in it being accurate where when you’re just customer X in line there’s no incentive for accuracy for cashiers.

          Sadly what I take out of this article, isn’t the fact that self-checks are going away but brick and mortar stores that a whole are going away. That’s what these big box companies don’t tell you, Walmart specifically because I’ve seen it popping up. Instead of putting in new stores they are putting in stores that are essentially just only a back room warehouse and they only service online orders.

  • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    1 year 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.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    1 year 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.nlEnglish
      5·
      1 year 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.