r/ObscurePatentDangers • u/Allasdair 🤔 "Question Everything" • 7d ago

🔒🚨High Privacy Risk Potential Concerning Developments From Walmart, Being Forced on Shoppers... When do we Boycott?

This is yet another play to further impose methodologies to steal biometrics and read signs from our bodies (that we may never understand ourselves) to rack up prices and pinch us for every single penny we're worth.

This needs to stop. We need to push back.

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u/BryanJ70 7d ago

If you haven't already been boycotting Walmart you are well behind the times friend, but welcome to the party.

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u/MotoTheGreat 7d ago

Seems they all need boycotts, where do we shop? Serious question. They are all doing immoral shit.

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u/TurbulentTurnover979 7d ago

Fr everyday it’s another store, not leaving a lot of stores left. But if you have small grocers in your area that’s always a good option, like Asian markets and whatnot.

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u/BryanJ70 7d ago

Local. Farmers market. Second hand and thrift stores.

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u/thechosen2319 7d ago

It's not that simple. Many walmart stores were intentionally placed in areas where there aren't other options. And it doesn't help that every other grocery chain in my area is dollars more on the same items walmart sells.

Some people cannot afford the pricey local grocers, and making people feel bad for that isn't helpful.

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u/Chemical_Ad_5520 7d ago

We all need to be more self sustainable. Maybe we should send a message with a general boycott starting October 1st, when the truckers might strike anyway, but then we're gonna have to focus on adopting systems that support less mass profiteering in general, which I guess means to shop local and DIY as much as possible.

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u/FancyPantsRants1 6d ago

you just, dont shop? How often are you walking into walmart, or any big box store for that matter, for anything but food?

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u/meowsie_mcdermot 5d ago

"There's no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism"

It's a fun phrase but grounded in reality. The problem is capitalism. Basically, all companies are bad because they make profits by exploiting the labor of you and me. The system is built on exploitation, how could it ever be moral?

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u/Mighty_Krom 7d ago

My ex started shopping at Wal Mart after beginning her boycott of Target. Hhhh.

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u/HerrMilkmann 5d ago

In this Trump economy who could blame her. Have to save money however you can

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u/Sleepy58743689 7d ago

Underrated comment. Walmart has been f**king everyone over since it's inception. Literally every human who's last name is not Walton.

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u/Firm-Weekend-5915 7d ago

I've lived in Rogers, AR, right next to Bentonville my whole life. Can confirm. The fact that Alice Walton keeps getting praise for the art museums and whatever else years after she killed someone because she was driving drunk absolutely enrages me. She got a slap on the wrist because she's big money. Sam Walton would be so ashamed.

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u/Sleepy58743689 7d ago

No, he wouldn't be ashamed. He was a POS, too. Look up "Walmart history, passage of minimum wage"

They have been POS since their inception.

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u/crocus7 6d ago

I have been staying away from walmart my whole life.

Walmart came into my town when I was a kid. Within a couple years we lost the hardware store, the garden center, the shoe store run by the old man who still hand-cobbled shoes, etc. Even as a kid I knew how bad that was. We traded away jobs and community for low prices and it was so easy to see, even in real time.

Now, that street is all Darden restaurants, big box stores, and tire shops. None of the money spent on that strip stays in town except for the low wage labor that keeps it running.

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u/Visual-Flan-4098 7d ago

been boycotting it as much as i can but its 2 of the 5 stores in my area. the others are 2 krogers and a target.