Wal-Mart Tries Social Networking Again... But This Time With An Actual Social Network
from the well,-that's-better dept
You may recall (or, actually, probably not) that last year around this time, Wal-Mart decided to launch its very own social network as a back-to-school promotion, except it took out all the fun parts of social networking, and then put in fake kids who talked about the clothes they were buying at Wal-Mart. It was either entirely ignored or mocked by the few who came across it. After a few months, the experiment was quietly abandoned -- and almost no one noticed. This year, Wal-Mart is back in the social networking game, but at least they've realized that rather than copying the hot trend of the year, it might be better to embrace the leader. To that end, the company is launching a Facebook group to try to get college kids heading back to school to "design your dorm room together." It's still a bit cheesy, and may not attract too many users, but at least the company finally realized it needed to go where the real kids were actually hanging out. Maybe next year the company will realize that it helps to have an application that's actually fun or useful as well.
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White Trash Networkin'
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Hell yea for the internet and some DIY skill. It's amazing how cheap stuff is when you just buy parts from Mouser. Or just buy the completed stuff from pricegrabber. Walmart is the middleman. I buy my stuff directly from China or Japan, and skip their markups.
That, and I just refuse to shop there because, ya know, they're evil.
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Wal Mart: My Disneyland
P.S. This includes online Wal Mart purchases also.
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Car
House
High Quality Computers (or components)
Tuxedos
Good Suits
Most Weapons
Rock Climbing Gear (or any specialty sporting equipment)
Medical Equipment (as in X-Rays etc.)
Coffins
High Proof C2H5OH
Chemotherapy
Artificial Limbs
College Textbooks
and the list goes on, walmart is primarily for mass produced consumable items
Things they should sell ..
Prostitutes
Pot
Porn
Prom Dates
Children
Politicians
Fortune 500 Companies
(this second list is a joke)
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Cordless phone - defective, returned it, defective, returned THAT one and the one I exchanged it for stopped working the first day.
Bicycle seat cover: ripped apart when I put it on the seat
Socks: elastic fails almost immediately
Iron: Came apart the first week.
They are cheap because what they sell is crap. I don't go there anymore. Better to pay a little more and get something that actually works.
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I don't care if people love or hate walmart. To me it's just under the good ol' control of capitalism. I can't imagine how horrible it would be to have to go to five stores to get light bulbs, underwear, a digital picture printed, hand towels and a water pitcher. And if you've been in little boutique stores, you know they charge an arm and a leg for little things like that. In the end I'm saving gas and time. I could get all that and a coffeegrinder on my way home from work.
I think the worst is when people pretend that Target is like some paragon of virtue in comparison to Walmart. Just because the atmosphere is yuppier in the store doesn't mean that there's any better reason to shop there. In the end they usually don't have the selection that Walmart does. You're not "better than me" because you got Target instead of Walmart.
I'll shop at both, depending on what I want and where it is.
And also, anyone can shop online now- there's free internet access at public libraries- no excuses.
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wow... did you just say that?
I can't believe you just suggested to people that they should shop online from a PUBLIC computer. That just destroyed any validity that your comment may have contained. No wonder identiy theft is so rampant now-a-days. Please, do the world a favor, and never offer any advice about anything technology related, EVER!
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I don't shop at ChinaMart. Mainly because they rip their electronics customers off beyond belief. But hey, if you can sell a $60 video card for $150, then hey why not?
I mean, ChinaMart says they offer the lowest prices or whatever, but they don't. They jack the prices of peps1 and c0ke products up to almost double, strictly so they can make their shitty "SpamsChoice" soft drinks 'seem' like a better deal. When in actuality, you are buying a crappy store brand at premium brand prices. Where is the value again?
How is this for a 'valid counter-point'. It's not like ChinaMart, or you, even deserve one. Oh, and be sure to link your boss to this article/comments, you little sheeple person.
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paid posts
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Paid
The moronic--bested again! Another point for the thinking American.
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;o)
ps where do they sell the O2 at w mart
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Shopping At The Wall
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Yeah, you know - you don't get Rich by spending it all :)
I have an Aunt and Uncle who are multi-millionaires and they shop cheap all the time.
Of course, if they want to go on a cruise or buy a new car they can anytime, but then they aren't blowing their money at overpriced stores who have the same thing Wal-Mart does, lol
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Does anybody remember ...
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Wal-Mart is pure evil.
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Hate that place.
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all other who try are FIRED.
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WAL-MART MAYBE WE SHOULD GIVE THEM
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I am amazed
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2 + 2 = 4
So if Wal-Mart is cheep captilisitc driven evil, then the only thing they will succeed at is providing the cheepest deilvered goods and the highest markup value possible. Therefore, in their effort to create a social-netowrking environment they will use the cheepest delivery systems available, in this case a free online site that already exists (facebook), and then try to generate a profit out of if by "marking up" it's value to be some sort of wanted commoditiy.
Cheep crap (2) + Disillusioned value (2) = Failure (4)
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Ever been out of work?
I haven't worked for wal-mart, and I'd like to think it would never come to that. On the other hand, I know a lot of people that have worked for wal-mart at one point or another - universally their cry is "I hated working at wal-mart, they treated me like sh*t!".
The bottom line is that crappy job or not, try not having a job at all, and not being able to find one. You'll take what you can get.
In many of the towns wal-mart has showed up in, so many other businesses have closed, that no, they can't "easily find a job somewhere else", because the few stores that are left are barely making it - much less hiring people on.
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How many people works as janitors? How many people have jobs with 0 benefits, and 0 pension plans. How many people are stuck in some sort of dead-end job where they hate every solitary second of their working lives, but have no other option because they can't afford to not be working? Well world-wide the majority of people out there have dastardly working condtions, yet their employers remain stupidly successful. If you haven't noticed, all the children over in Africa getting paid about two cents a day to dig out gems for the rest of us make their boss' pretty damn rich and successful. If you weight success soley on who generates the most profit, then the people who provide the aboslute worst working condtions will always win hands down.
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It's possible to make a buck, have well merchandised stores and have helpful and friendly associates. Too bad Chinamart has chosen another route. I don't shop there. The quality is poor. Advertising is deceptive and their associates are unconcerned with customers. Their stores are messy and poorly merchandised. I'd rather spend more and shop at a Kohls or Target and not have to deal with the throng of zombies that populate chinamarts.
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Sam Walton
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when the started selling triple (SSS) slip shod **IT .
They also stopped most of their local comp. giving.
:o(
Ps: average employee turn over is very fast. as soon as the base employee can they leave
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Who took the hyphen out?
And South Korea and Germany gives them the boot......was that because of the star in the name or kite flying money from those two Countries just takes to long of a string!
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In my years there I saw people being told to work off the clock or not come back. I saw the many department managers told that they could finish their paperwork, at home, unpaid. I saw good people being walmartized. The walmart woker that stays as a career speaks in walmarteese much like fanatic christians have their own little language. Wal-mart is a large fat man and the world is his toilet.
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Sam Walton knew proper English and had a "hyphen" in the name but in his passing in 1992 and the new CEO in 2000....the company moved purchasing to China in 2002 and for some reason the "hyphen" was removed from the name and in its place a big single "star" appeared!
So! Who put the star in the name......was it the same person that put "Department of People" in an American company?
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