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[-] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 97 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Coldgoron@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago

Wow thats bad when those evil fucks wont touch it.

[-] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 37 points 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

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

[-] captain_oni@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 4 points 10 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 10 months ago
[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Life is a JoJo reference

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Too bad the product is execrable today.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

A lot of people worked very hard on this.

[-] rambaroo@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

You can still get hydrox in some places

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[-] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

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

[-] radix@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

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

[-] S_204@lemm.ee 17 points 10 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 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago

Oh god, what?

[-] RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 21 points 10 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 10 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 10 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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[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago

Oh the irony.

[-] NewPerspective@lemmy.world 9 points 9 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 9 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 8 points 10 months ago

A broken clock is right twice a day so they're halfway to Broken Clock status at least.

[-] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 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 10 months ago

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

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 7 points 10 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 10 months ago

And they'd find their best customer in muskyboy himself

[-] radix@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Pillow magnates and catheter cowboys.

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 10 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 10 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 10 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 1 points 10 months ago

Lawsuit coming in 3…2….1….

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