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·
      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.

    • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      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.worldEnglish
    31·
    11 months ago

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

    • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      11 months ago

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

        • buddhabound@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          11 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.eeEnglish
          9·
          11 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.

  • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    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.

  • BedSharkPal@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    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.worldEnglish
      9·
      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.

    • nomous@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      11 months 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·
      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.

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

  • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    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.

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