Have you experienced their "Dynamic Pricing' yet? My wife is fuming and refuses to go there now. She's a coupon queen and we work hard to save our money. She will research and write pricing notes / deals next to the items on our grocery list.
A few weeks ago something scanned at the register much higher than on our list and from when we grabbed it off the shelf. Turns out, those little electronic LCD price labels can wirelessly update (probably via AI) when corporate sees too many people buying a popular item and they want more profit. Someone on Youtube said the Walmart app (we don't trust it) will also change prices based on your past shopping history. Therefore, you and I might pay different prices for the same item.
Also, many stores are putting their "thumb on the scale" when they print the labels for meat and fish. If you carry ground beef over to the produce scale, the actual weight will be 20 - 40% lighter than printed on the label.
How would Walmart know your past shopping history? I don't shop there, so I honestly don't know. Do they have the store discount cards like in regular grocery stores?
I see you mentioned the app. Is it when you buy things in the app, check out and then go pick up or have your items delivered?
Amazon stores (e.g. Central Market, Whole Foods) and undoubtedly Walmarts have cameras everywhere that feed the video to databanks.
Amazon tracks people by facial features, any identity data given, gait, FLOCK, etc, to the point that they could pull what items you looked at and what items you picked up on which day in which store, sell all that data to advertisers, and give you a targeted ad on a newspaper on your phone, whose IMEI they picked up, 4 days later to remind you that you like that product.
I don’t know if Walmart is at that same level yet, but it wouldn’t be the slightest bit surprising.
It got a little tin-foily in the comments to your question so here is some founded patterns:
Surge pricing - If a store uses the e-ink or other changeable price tags on their shelves, they can change the price of certain items based on just general anonymous shopping patterns:
A spike in the purchase of Frosted Flakes over the last x hours or days
or time based patterns, say people shop for breakfast foods more in the morning than at night,
Prices can increase or decrease based on those params. It's unlikely a store has cameras to track you to an aisle -> shelf -> product to quickly change the price, and then remember to charge you that price as you are tracked back to the register - there is really no need for all of that. Global heuristic based pricing described above is good enough.
Individual Dynamic pricing - If you use a store's app to purchase for in-store or curbside pickup, the prices in the app might not be the same prices in the store - they could under or overcharge you based on your previous purchase history in the app.
You won't have to dive deep on these practices, any MSM outlet has covered them. Whether Wal-Mart is using these practices, I could not say with authority.
I shop there only for things I can’t find locally and don’t order. They are cheaper on a lot of items compared to the local food lion. It’s not a place I like to visit but occasionally have to. Between the trashy customers and employees I can’t deal with that, I understand you might not have a lot of money but at least respect yourself. I’ll admit the bathrooms are usually clean. I don’t shop a lot on the app because if you have an issue you have to call India. At least Amazon AI chat is helpful and you can chat with a person. Although I don’t like shopping there either.
Wish we could go back to local stores having what you need.
If we ever sort out our corrupt markets and GME, DJT, etc take off to the moon, I'd LOVE to give back to my small New England community and revitalize the old dilapidated mills into small local businesses and restart the trades at the schools.
That would be cool. One of the local towns near me refurbished an old cotton mill. It’s mostly restaurants, coffee shop and a not your average book store (seems like it has something for kids). I haven’t been to it, can’t remember exactly what I read. We have eaten at a few of the restaurants. I believe Concord NC did that with the old mills. I’ve been once just to see Dale Earnhardt Sr statue. The shops were unique. I long for the days when Americans make what we need instead of child labor in china. Seems like we lost some of our pride when jobs left.
Got to watch Dollar General as well and Publix. They are hoping you won’t notice and if you do they will pay any fines. Still a drop in the bucket to what they take in their skimming illegality.
Exactly they are changing the prices at the time we the consumers are in the register. They think they are smarter than us but I will not buy it if prices have changed, btw Walmart is not the one it used to be, prices are high too so don’t bother buying g things there.
I don't know why people shop there to begin with. Everything is made/grown outside the US, from what I understand. Lots of crappy Chinese products and foods from Mexico and Central America.
It sounds like Bollywood music. What I heard when I listened is definitely not the Adhan (call to prayer), which is one man vocalizing words. They don't use musical instruments.
And the "This is America!" bit kind of backfires, since, yes, this IS America, and as such, business owners have the right to play whatever kind of music they want to.
Eh, some of it's not so bad. I reallly like Chaiyaa Chaiyaa, played in the opening scenes of the movie Inside Man.
There's a big difference between a Bollywood song and the call to Muslim prayer, though. I don't like a lot of the music I hear in stores, but I don't have a fit over them. Sometimes we have to realize the world doesn't revolve around each of us, individually.
WHATEVER you do, if you're in Walmart and see people groveling on the floor facing Mecca, DO NOT kick them in the butt. But if you DO, make sure you get it on video and share it widely. Just sayin'...
If Muslims know the times they are supposed to pray then they need to keep their arses home! I live in an area where I have the choice of a Walmart, Kroger or Schnuck’s. I shop all three for the best price. I have yet to hear the call to prayer music or whatever, but if I do, I will find the manager and ask why, then follow up with an email to the corporate office.
I live in an area with a large Muslim population, and by and large, they make it a point to be somewhere they know they can pray when the time comes.
They don't broadcast the Adhan at any of the nearby mosques that I'm aware of.
Even so, I don't view it much differently than I do Christian churches ringing bells. I once lived in a VERY small town that had 4 different churches within a mile of each other (honestly, each church had only around ~20 people showing up regularly for service, no idea how they stayed operating).
And each one of them had their services start ~15 minutes apart, so every sunday morning, the church bells would ring for at least an hour straight.
Obviously since devout Muslims are supposed to pray 5 times a day, every day, that would be different. But instead of an hour solid every Sunday morning, it would be about 2 or 3 minutes of call scattered throughout the day.
The differences in prayer between devout religions has always interested me. Just always wondered about the difference between what caused the different methods. The Quran has an open call to prayer five times a day with set rituals, while the Holy Bible tells Christians to pray privately in their closets. Which brings up an entire kettle of fish when we compare that directive to what usually happens with Christians praying in public.
Church bells were to announce services but also were warning systems for. The town and announced community events. Anything beyond Sunday was a come here. Fun fact durning the dust bowl my family’s small town used it to warning of incoming storms so people could get inside.
Yeah, that's true. They do typically do double/triple duty.
What gets me is how out of step with the reality of modern living the Adhan is. I think it's one of the most common reasons that the more progressive mosques (yes, there are progressive mosques) have started doing things like sending alerts to mobile phones.
The adhan is one man vocalizing words of a call to prayer locally. When technology improved, bullhorns/loudspeakers were introduced.
But getting back to fundamentsls, it was simply a call to tell people it was time to pray. Which has been made obsolete both with watches and cell phones and the fact that outside of Islamic countries, and a few dense cities in typically Christian dominant countries, most Mulsims don't live in hearing distance of a Mosque. So it's kind of like the "If a tree falls in the woods, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?"
Where I live, there are maybe 5 mosques within a 30 minute car trip, and they're all mostly built out on large lots with barely any residential housing nearby. Everyone drives. I know several of them stopped doing the local adhan and instead started sending it to the mobile phones of their members.
I don't go there often, but if that ever occurs I will find a manager and let them know why I am leaving my shopping cart and exiting the store immediately, never to return.
Well I don’t go often because Walmart is a supermarket that I really hate for being unpatriotic. When I go it is because I need to get an item that has to buy that is less expensive than the other markets and believe me I hate it. I am in and out and I heard the friking Muslim song inside don’t pay attention if it was outside.
Not true across all stores. I have to shop at Walmart all the time, never heard it.
Have you experienced their "Dynamic Pricing' yet? My wife is fuming and refuses to go there now. She's a coupon queen and we work hard to save our money. She will research and write pricing notes / deals next to the items on our grocery list.
A few weeks ago something scanned at the register much higher than on our list and from when we grabbed it off the shelf. Turns out, those little electronic LCD price labels can wirelessly update (probably via AI) when corporate sees too many people buying a popular item and they want more profit. Someone on Youtube said the Walmart app (we don't trust it) will also change prices based on your past shopping history. Therefore, you and I might pay different prices for the same item.
Also, many stores are putting their "thumb on the scale" when they print the labels for meat and fish. If you carry ground beef over to the produce scale, the actual weight will be 20 - 40% lighter than printed on the label.
How would Walmart know your past shopping history? I don't shop there, so I honestly don't know. Do they have the store discount cards like in regular grocery stores?
I see you mentioned the app. Is it when you buy things in the app, check out and then go pick up or have your items delivered?
Amazon stores (e.g. Central Market, Whole Foods) and undoubtedly Walmarts have cameras everywhere that feed the video to databanks.
Amazon tracks people by facial features, any identity data given, gait, FLOCK, etc, to the point that they could pull what items you looked at and what items you picked up on which day in which store, sell all that data to advertisers, and give you a targeted ad on a newspaper on your phone, whose IMEI they picked up, 4 days later to remind you that you like that product.
I don’t know if Walmart is at that same level yet, but it wouldn’t be the slightest bit surprising.
All the data centers popping up surely have nothing to do with this.
“They” can also see you in your home. You can be seen and tracked by how your WiFi signal bounces off your body with WiFi Imaging technology.
All our data being fed to a central system that any corporation and government entity can access.
Welcome to 1984.
It got a little tin-foily in the comments to your question so here is some founded patterns:
Surge pricing - If a store uses the e-ink or other changeable price tags on their shelves, they can change the price of certain items based on just general anonymous shopping patterns:
Prices can increase or decrease based on those params. It's unlikely a store has cameras to track you to an aisle -> shelf -> product to quickly change the price, and then remember to charge you that price as you are tracked back to the register - there is really no need for all of that. Global heuristic based pricing described above is good enough.
Individual Dynamic pricing - If you use a store's app to purchase for in-store or curbside pickup, the prices in the app might not be the same prices in the store - they could under or overcharge you based on your previous purchase history in the app.
You won't have to dive deep on these practices, any MSM outlet has covered them. Whether Wal-Mart is using these practices, I could not say with authority.
I shop there only for things I can’t find locally and don’t order. They are cheaper on a lot of items compared to the local food lion. It’s not a place I like to visit but occasionally have to. Between the trashy customers and employees I can’t deal with that, I understand you might not have a lot of money but at least respect yourself. I’ll admit the bathrooms are usually clean. I don’t shop a lot on the app because if you have an issue you have to call India. At least Amazon AI chat is helpful and you can chat with a person. Although I don’t like shopping there either.
Wish we could go back to local stores having what you need.
Agreed!
If we ever sort out our corrupt markets and GME, DJT, etc take off to the moon, I'd LOVE to give back to my small New England community and revitalize the old dilapidated mills into small local businesses and restart the trades at the schools.
That would be cool. One of the local towns near me refurbished an old cotton mill. It’s mostly restaurants, coffee shop and a not your average book store (seems like it has something for kids). I haven’t been to it, can’t remember exactly what I read. We have eaten at a few of the restaurants. I believe Concord NC did that with the old mills. I’ve been once just to see Dale Earnhardt Sr statue. The shops were unique. I long for the days when Americans make what we need instead of child labor in china. Seems like we lost some of our pride when jobs left.
MOASS is tomorrow
That's the right kind of attitude fren!
I'm pretty sure that the "thumb on the scale" is illegal.
Got to watch Dollar General as well and Publix. They are hoping you won’t notice and if you do they will pay any fines. Still a drop in the bucket to what they take in their skimming illegality.
Exactly they are changing the prices at the time we the consumers are in the register. They think they are smarter than us but I will not buy it if prices have changed, btw Walmart is not the one it used to be, prices are high too so don’t bother buying g things there.
I don't know why people shop there to begin with. Everything is made/grown outside the US, from what I understand. Lots of crappy Chinese products and foods from Mexico and Central America.
A friend who is in corporate told us this weekend that there are a few stores that won't have it. But that 90% already do.
Only if they get hit in the wallet will they stop this offensive shit.
Actually they will just get a bigger welfare check (direct and indirect subsidies amount to billions) to make up the difference.
Many stores broadcast "Walmart Radio" content which I assume is corporate controlled and not manipulated at the individual store level.
Pure rage bait.
It sounds like Bollywood music. What I heard when I listened is definitely not the Adhan (call to prayer), which is one man vocalizing words. They don't use musical instruments.
And the "This is America!" bit kind of backfires, since, yes, this IS America, and as such, business owners have the right to play whatever kind of music they want to.
Playing Bollywood music is just as bad.
Eh, some of it's not so bad. I reallly like Chaiyaa Chaiyaa, played in the opening scenes of the movie Inside Man.
There's a big difference between a Bollywood song and the call to Muslim prayer, though. I don't like a lot of the music I hear in stores, but I don't have a fit over them. Sometimes we have to realize the world doesn't revolve around each of us, individually.
& the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack👌
Tolerance to Indians is worse than Islam.
They do and since they do there should be no issue with making something public more public right?
How do you mean?
Making it public that they're playing Bollywood music?
I doubt many people will care.
WHATEVER you do, if you're in Walmart and see people groveling on the floor facing Mecca, DO NOT kick them in the butt. But if you DO, make sure you get it on video and share it widely. Just sayin'...
Always smart to record and post your crimes. All the smart kids do it. It's worth it for the clicks!
Hate crimes are in right now!
Skip the butt kick. Go for the head kick. Much more effective.
If Muslims know the times they are supposed to pray then they need to keep their arses home! I live in an area where I have the choice of a Walmart, Kroger or Schnuck’s. I shop all three for the best price. I have yet to hear the call to prayer music or whatever, but if I do, I will find the manager and ask why, then follow up with an email to the corporate office.
I live in an area with a large Muslim population, and by and large, they make it a point to be somewhere they know they can pray when the time comes.
They don't broadcast the Adhan at any of the nearby mosques that I'm aware of.
Even so, I don't view it much differently than I do Christian churches ringing bells. I once lived in a VERY small town that had 4 different churches within a mile of each other (honestly, each church had only around ~20 people showing up regularly for service, no idea how they stayed operating).
And each one of them had their services start ~15 minutes apart, so every sunday morning, the church bells would ring for at least an hour straight.
Obviously since devout Muslims are supposed to pray 5 times a day, every day, that would be different. But instead of an hour solid every Sunday morning, it would be about 2 or 3 minutes of call scattered throughout the day.
The differences in prayer between devout religions has always interested me. Just always wondered about the difference between what caused the different methods. The Quran has an open call to prayer five times a day with set rituals, while the Holy Bible tells Christians to pray privately in their closets. Which brings up an entire kettle of fish when we compare that directive to what usually happens with Christians praying in public.
And now I've forgotten what my point was.
Sorry for the rambling stream of conscience.
Church bells were to announce services but also were warning systems for. The town and announced community events. Anything beyond Sunday was a come here. Fun fact durning the dust bowl my family’s small town used it to warning of incoming storms so people could get inside.
Yeah, that's true. They do typically do double/triple duty.
What gets me is how out of step with the reality of modern living the Adhan is. I think it's one of the most common reasons that the more progressive mosques (yes, there are progressive mosques) have started doing things like sending alerts to mobile phones.
The adhan is one man vocalizing words of a call to prayer locally. When technology improved, bullhorns/loudspeakers were introduced.
But getting back to fundamentsls, it was simply a call to tell people it was time to pray. Which has been made obsolete both with watches and cell phones and the fact that outside of Islamic countries, and a few dense cities in typically Christian dominant countries, most Mulsims don't live in hearing distance of a Mosque. So it's kind of like the "If a tree falls in the woods, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?"
Where I live, there are maybe 5 mosques within a 30 minute car trip, and they're all mostly built out on large lots with barely any residential housing nearby. Everyone drives. I know several of them stopped doing the local adhan and instead started sending it to the mobile phones of their members.
Need sauce on this one.
Doesn’t surprise me. Sad 😞 I already have Walmart as a last choice option for my shopping. Pretty much a No-Go place for me.
I don't go there often, but if that ever occurs I will find a manager and let them know why I am leaving my shopping cart and exiting the store immediately, never to return.
Any Company that does this needs to be 100% boycotted till they go out of business!
If my walmart starts it they have seen the last of my family.
I interviewed at Walmart . Loss Prevention.
The camera systems they are operating use facial recognition. Yet this dopey lady from canadiatan, or wherever, isn’t aware?
‘C’mon man!’ - sleepy joe
Woohoo--discount burkas!
The meme where the Muslim got 4 same pictures throughout human history of development…
I have not seen this in Eastern NC. I doubt it would go over very well here.
Weird game of telephone we are getting here.
It will eventually if this post wasn't yet.
Is it something they do regularly? As in, do they do it 5 times a day, every day?
Can you tell me which location(s) you've heard it? I'd like to call them about it.
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How often have you heard the Adhan outside of Walmart?
Well I don’t go often because Walmart is a supermarket that I really hate for being unpatriotic. When I go it is because I need to get an item that has to buy that is less expensive than the other markets and believe me I hate it. I am in and out and I heard the friking Muslim song inside don’t pay attention if it was outside.
I mean, other than the times you've heard the Adhan at Walmart, where else have you heard it? And how often?
I'm wondering if it was actually the Adhan you heard.
Why do you think it's the Adhan if you've never heard it outside of shops?
It's nationwide. Heard it this morning in the heart of america
Did it sound like what you heard on the video linked in the OP?
No this was was an Adhan
Interesting. May I ask where you live?
I travel for work, so basically I live all over the country.
Could you tell me the city where you heard it?
Shelby County Alabama
Interesting. Is it something you've regularly heard there, or was it a one off event?
Is there a large Muslim population in Shelby County, AL?
If I ever hear that playing in my local WallyWorld, I will NEVER step foot in the door again. That's a promise, not a threat.
POTUS mentioned WalMart -- 15% off on THE BEEF.
The White House mentioned 67
The word "pray" is 67 Q drops, like this one in the map section.
u/#q104
Charlie Kirk bought his jeans at Wal-Mart
I stopped shopping at WMT decades ago. Now I never will.