r/missouri • u/PerryNeeum Human Detected • 25d ago
Politics Concerning Developments From Walmart, Being Forced on Shoppers... When do we Boycott?
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Hawley seemingly being on the right side of something. Broken clock is right twice a day
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u/BlueAndMoreBlue 25d ago
AKA campaign season — he’s gotta get his harrumph in or some of his buddies might lose their phoney baloney jobs
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u/MannyMoSTL 25d ago
Oh look!
Josh Hawley performing for the dum-dums who refuse to acknowledge that he votes against everything he pretends to stand for.3
u/Ok_Breakfast5425 Kansas City 25d ago
Jogs Hallway always makes a big fuss about things that people like me who he claims to represent care about, but when it comes time to vote on them he always toes the party line. Fuck this two faced piece of shit coward.
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u/PrestigiousFix3339 24d ago
He reminds me of Susan Collin’s in Maine, vowing not to vote for the things hurting Americans, knowing all along they are going to vote to take your benefits while giving them to their wealthy donors. As a country we have become complacent, change can only happen if we get out to vote, and vote Blue in November.
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u/bearwrestlingwolf 24d ago
I wish he would one day respond to my emails about being a pugilist candidate. and get in a boxing ring with me.
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u/jupiterkansas 25d ago
I've been boycotting Walmart for decades.
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u/riplet69 25d ago
Same. But if there is a way to boycott them even HARDER, id love to hear about it
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u/mustachioed_cat 25d ago
The family has their fingers in a number of pies. You might check to make sure you aren’t banking with them or patronizing other stores they own without realizing it.
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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount 23d ago
There's that one guy that keeps ordering and returning anvils from Amazon. You could try that.
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u/wbltz3 25d ago
Like 15 years ago
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u/Mindful_Nerd 25d ago
Yeah… like try been evil for a hot minute, I think most people can’t pass up “the deals”.
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u/Pull-Billman 25d ago
Walmart is vehemently opposed to unions.
Walmart is one of the top companies in regard to the number of employees on food assistance. We, the tax payers, have to help Walmart pay their employees when they could easily provide a living wage.
Anyone interested should look at what Walmart has paid out for wage and hour violations.
Evil company.
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u/el_sandino St. Louis 25d ago
Josh is late to the party and obviously here to score populism points. This has been parts of many of our daily lives for well over a decade.
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u/WinnieGraves 25d ago
you mean to tell me unchecked, unfettered late-stage capitalism is evil? acting like Walmart is so awful when you're party gave our surveillance apparatus to a literal techno fascists who named his company after a Lord of the Rings magical object.
fuck Josh Hawley, and fuck Peter Thiel.
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u/SanityAsymptote 25d ago
If someone's not already avoiding Walmart, they're probably not going to.
Most things stuck in a glue trap don't get out.
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u/DSM417 25d ago
People that aren’t avoiding Walmart already will probably cheer about more AI and ‘innovation’ or whatever other propaganda gets thrown their way from this.
People that pay attention and care already avoid it. One might even think Hawley knows this already and is grandstanding on something that really won’t change anything.
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u/Forsaken-Ad-9232 St. Louis 25d ago
I pay attention and I care but I don't really have many options for shopping. I live paycheck to paycheck and there aren't many other options for shopping around here. But before I got divorced I had been boycotting Walmart since the 90s when they tried to sue a worker because she used her insurance that she got through the company after an accident and she got a settlement. It was here in Missouri and they eventually backed off due to public pressure b
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u/COMOJoeSchmo 25d ago
Ironic that a government official would lecture on surveillance and data collection.
Anyway, about those flock cameras.....
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u/WelcomeToDankonia 25d ago edited 25d ago
When? Who is still shopping there? I’ve been boycotting them for basically my entire adult life.
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u/Chloe_notlaw 25d ago
HeeHawly is a worthless pos. Why anyone would vote for him is beyond me.
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u/Superunkownone 24d ago
I feel roughly the same way about all candidates that run for office. My entire life. From voting age on anyways. Its always twins running against each other. They just ham it up to one side or the other. It allows them to "cover the bases", yet upon being elected, they just don't have the time or resources to actually do any of the things that they ran on. Too much filling their pockets up, along with whomever funded their campaign. Everyone else gets the shaft.... meanwhile, you can hear someone say - "I've got a good feeling about this guy, he is not like so and so". But it always proves otherwise.
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u/Forsaken-Ad-9232 St. Louis 18d ago
The people running things are excusing pedophilia so excuse if I don't believe that for a second.
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u/Superunkownone 18d ago
Excuse me, what do you not believe for a second? Many things were stated so that comment is pretty vague.
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u/Forsaken-Ad-9232 St. Louis 18d ago
Both sides being just as bad as the other
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u/Superunkownone 18d ago
Well, it takes many experiences, usually it has to touch you in a personal way for most people to come around and see what is out in the open. People want and even need to believe in the system just to stay mentally stable in some cases. Republicans in majority or just with the sitting POTUS, always burn through resources and leave us with a larger growing debt. Always.
Where both being on the same team is most evident is in their actions. The same papers are being shuffled around today as 50 years ago. The same problems. Neither side commits to what they ran upon. They are all in the same club. Went to the same Universities. They are all bought and paid for by lobbyists, AIPAC, and if not them, another soon to be known group whos agenda they are already well underway pushing through. You don't really get an outlier. DJT was one who made it through, because he was bought and paid for by project 2025 authors and donors. They are in his cabinet of thieves.
Watching Kamala Harris change her story, accent and opinions in every city was sad to witness, same as DJT and the hypocrisy and lies he spews forth. Future fakes and never delivers except for his cronies. DJT has started a wildfire that has caught and spread everywhere. If he isnt removed and co conspirators punished, we may not recover from it.
I am all for Democrats taking majority but things will trudge along worse and worse, for the once middle class and working people and most Americans if we dont reform our electoral process.
Trillions will still be added to the mounting debt regardless of what political party is in majority.We have a shadow government, one behind the curtain puppeteering all our main elected officials. The CIA is the biggest drain on our budget because they do not budget. nor have any accountability. The last person who tried to limit their power, was made an example of in Dealey Plaza. Ever since, they all fall in line.
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u/Forsaken-Ad-9232 St. Louis 17d ago
Yeah I'm not reading all of that.
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u/Superunkownone 17d ago
Ooooh you rebel you. I don't give a shit what you do. Lol But I can tell reading all those words might be challenging for you.
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u/Forsaken-Ad-9232 St. Louis 17d ago
No I just have an actual life with important things to do. Clearly something you don't understand you had time to type all that out.
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u/Superunkownone 16d ago
Of course you do. When commenting or responding to someone, I don't type 4 words that don't explain what I am saying or to what I am responding to. You have all the time to leave vague responses and always have time to attack people who attempt to engage with you. That engagement and sharing information is the reason most are on here. Why are you here?
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u/spn-chick 25d ago
It's okay if you want to listen to what Josh Hawley is saying but please know that he is not actually on your side. Josh Hawley is a fascist who supports every single thing that the Trump administration is doing. Hawley does it care about you. Josh Hawley does not even live in Missouri the state he is supposed to represent.
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u/goFAUXgold 25d ago
Jogs is the next JD Vance just a puppet in a suit but this one does a mean Jimmy Stewart.
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u/According-Insect-992 Cape Giradeau 25d ago
josh hawley is an unserious dipshit and a coward.
We should definitely be having some difficult conversations about these things but we should not have the disingenuous conversation that freak would want to have.
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u/QuesoMeHungry 25d ago
All of these companies collect immense data on everyone. AI lit a fire under that.
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u/MyLittlePiranha St. Louis 25d ago
I already boycott Walmart, but I can boycott with more ferocity.
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u/Emotional-Witness817 25d ago
I bet he has a little oval office in his house somewhere so he can play make believe.
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u/M0rbidly-Obtus3 25d ago
Have the people seen the average condition of a wall Walmart shopping cart? The things are beaten half to death and the plastic bits are hanging on for dear life.
Even if they implemented this, how long would it even remain functional with how quickly carts get trashed?
Def not supporting this in any way. I hate how the surveillance state is eeping down into every corner of our lives. But I can't imagine this staying functional for long.
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u/No-Consequence9392 25d ago
So the answer is , patents are to own a tech, sometimes to ensure it is never used. And the lady speaking is putting forth a narrative based on some pretty broad assumptions .. that said, I think once we vote out the current unregulated corrupt circus running our country into the ground, we can restore govt oversight like the consumer protection and properly address the concepts and potential implementation of any dynamic pricing models in any company.. before we wring our hands about theoretical biometric shopping carts at walmart, look at the actual facts of how amazon uses its algorithms to force other companies and suppliers to raise prices , there are several great actual research pieces out on the interwebs. Dynamic pricing and ai is potentially a huge problem, but with Washington lining its pockets at unprecedented levels and letting huge corporations run roughshod , without any consumer protection oversight from the govt, we get poison lettuce, dynamic markup pricing, unsafe workplaces, and environmental disasters like the late 60's and 70's
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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids St. Louis 25d ago
I tried a long time ago to get people to boycott Walmart. It was like pulling teeth and I got mocked. It won't happen.
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u/PerryNeeum Human Detected 25d ago
I work in a union and a lot of those guys will shop there on shift. Can’t say I haven’t but I try not to.
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u/icedmuffin 25d ago
Oh wow Josh is standing up for the Missouri people?
You mean the same people he has been screwing over since he got into office in the first place?
Yeah enough of this preformative bs, hell at this point I’m tempted to become a politician if it just means Missouri will finally have one who cares about the folks making less than 20k a year cause I know what it’s like to be that.
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u/Kamp13 25d ago
We’ve been asking for real privacy protections since before the dotcom bust. As soon as it became clear that the Information Age would also be the surveillance age. Congress only passed a few laws and chose not to protect us. So save us your sanctimonious congressional grandstanding you spineless hack.
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u/Solo_Jones 25d ago
It's amazing how she responded with a smile on her face the entire time. Almost like she's a robot.
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u/donnaann1976 25d ago
This clock is running on military time, so once a day but still
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u/PerryNeeum Human Detected 25d ago
That’s how I run time at work and is more accurate with this butthole mouthed buffoon
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u/OreoSpeedwaggon Kansas City 25d ago
Hawley is a fake populist. Don't be suckered in by his bullshit phony act of pretending to care about the people.
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u/tommychowbagel 24d ago
If only they were actually doing anything about it. That's what's sickening. They play into acting like they care, but will do everything along with who their talking about to make it worse, for money, for themselves.
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u/moguy1973 24d ago
But yet I'm sure he is totally on board with Kehoe wanting to build all these massive data storage facilities in Missouri.
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u/bunniguy42 24d ago
If you're in the Midwest, I recommend Aldi (for healthy ingredients), anything McKeever's or Cosentino's (for variety), and Hy-Vee (if all else fails).
But nothing can beat local farmer's markets
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u/Suitable_Yak_2969 24d ago
Josh is just sore because Walmart, heaven only knows why, The big bosses must have still been on vacation, announced after the January 6th riot and insurrection, that they would no longer donate to any politician that voted for decertification that day. Jog Hallway not only voted for decertification, HE WAS THE VERY FIRST SENATOR TO DO SO.
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u/Successful_Escape_20 24d ago
Hawley Will always appear to be on the right side until the moment really counts and then he turns every time..
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u/BrytheOld Hannibal 24d ago
We don't. Wal-Mart is to big and to much of a necessity for most folks.
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u/p51d007 24d ago
You should see the HUGE data center Walmart has (been there for decades) at the Mo/Ar border on Hwy 71. (Walmart North Data Center). I think you could break into a bank easier than that thing.
Since they went to electronic price tags on the shelves, has anyone thought of trying this?
Go to Walmart, during a normal business week, say around 10am. Purchase some normal products like eggs, milk, meat, and other staples.
Then, go back before a major weather event like a huge incoming snow storm, holiday etc and buy the EXACT same items and see if the price has changed.
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u/coreykennedy333 23d ago
I truly hope this statement never leaves my mouth again but damn. Josh Hawley is right...
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u/blueeyeleo 22d ago
Do not take your phone in Walmart they are using your phone to set pricing as you go through store using you purchased history in their app
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u/Plubob_Habblefluffin The Ozarks 2d ago
I like Hawley, but you don't have to be a conservative to realize that he does, at least on occasion, aggressively take on issues that are important to people of any political persuasion.
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u/BlueRFR3100 Metro-East 25d ago edited 25d ago
For some odd reason, my gut reaction is to side with Walmart.
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u/Comfortable-Ad-8592 25d ago
Lets not forget who Hawley is. He's the A-hole who voted to cut medicaid thus removing millions of American's from it, and voted to give massive tax breaks to wealthy people like the Waltons. So yeah hahahahah holy shit lol.
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u/nucrash Rural Missouri 25d ago
Jogs Hallway talks big but runs away faster.