are you scandinavian because I feel like that’s what one side of my family is like, the swedish/dutch side

I guarantee any weirdo going “people of walmart” watching in the store is attracting looks from people literally just minding their business tho

Walmart’s literal trainings when you work for them reference this by a different name. They call it “everyday low cost” and say that when they “get a volume discount from a supplier” they can “roll back prices” and they offer scenarios in which this happens which are identical to the process timeworntraveler is accurately describing. I worked there 5 years in many different positions around the store and made sure to learn everything I could and I can indeed confirm this is how Walmart works. It’s actually a really easy to understand business model. For all its flaws and despite being quite dated the documentary “The High Cost of Low Price” https://www.bravenewfilms.org/walmartmovie from all the way back in 2005 is still a good explainer of how Walmart became so dominant as to be able to completely set prices for all aspects of its suppliers and often its labor market. I personally witnessed everyone on my team get a $3 raise overnight when Fred Meyer threatened to poach some of our employees as scab labor to fight their union which was on strike. Now I am a union worker set to make a couple bucks more an hour than I did at Walmart but they always try to keep it competitive.

You dont get it bro it’s called EDLC which drives EDLP, lower prices for everyone /sarcasm

Nah, it used to be back in the days the logo had a smiley face, it was the place for affordable abundance. Ever since I worked there 5 years though I see the whole body of the beast for what it is, and the parts you’re not seeing are super ugly on like every level from produce bags chopped by prisoners in Salinas to sexual harassment of stockers by good ol boy management on the overnight team

That’s the shittest department to pawn him off on lol, auto doesn’t even make a profit, it’s a dog to get people in and stuck shopping while they wait. I think they must have done it to get him canned because tech and service writer were super high turnover in my market because you need actual skill to do it right and the job doesn’t pay enough if you do. I personally used to roll on Douglases and get all my oil changes there because of employee discount but only because the auto techs were all attending the nearby technical school and working with a degree of pride guaranteed by their TL who ran a tight ship, I trusted her, women who can thrive in that environment have to both know their shit and be tough lol.

yes I’m boy a nonbinary entity and I was raised on tofu so actualmente la verdad es que no soy boy

False, the phytoestrogens in beer are far more bioavailable, but also the animal estrogen in beef.

The one chiming in to defend a cringe meme. Grow up lmao

Post cringe to cope about people pointing out a meme is shitty snd let everyone know you’re butthurt

It’s an incel meme, this kind of shit is the very valid and rational reason that women avoid them

Cope snd seethe harder

Lol @ snopes spending time to go through and debunk the blogspam story that sounds like it was written by an LLM

The Trojan horse is actually the one on the right, this scene takes place in the stables of Troy where this one stallion with a giantess fetish took the wooden mare as his mate

Seems historically accurate given the level of radiation exposure a lot of the nuclear scientists got

Invites are really common on other sites now that a critical mass has been reached where people have invited everyone they know who is interested already and are like selling them, there are already accounts that farm engagement on there like “funny cat pics of the day” or something and it will indeed have some cat pics taken from wherever but the point of the account is to follow thousands of accounts to get followed back, and thereby build a following to sell off. It’s an extremely clumsy strategy but it’s being pursued often enough that you can’t just assume a bluesky account isn’t a bad actor. So if that is the threshold then it’s already been reached.

If you attempt to shitpost on Mastodon things don’t usually go very well. The vibe had to match twitter circa 2013 or else it would never have felt safe enough for the first colonizing species of memes like alf hog to develop like the first plants in a lava field

It’s called the gay community

A lot of journalists are really bad at using the machine they use to do their job and it shows.

Also what do you have against blind people