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A recent post mentioned that it's also seen as an adspace thing for Walmart, they can get their ads seen on Vizio's smart screens for free if they own the product.

Kinda sneaky way to spread their advertising. Of course, if the TV isn't plugged in to the internet, them ads ain't gonna appear.

Not that I'd buy a Vizio product if they're owned by Walmart.

I can't remember if it was Vizio or LG that said they made more money on data gathered from their smart TVs than from selling the TVs themselves, personally I think this is what Walmart is after.

Unfortunately the article itself is behind a Wall Street Journal paywall, so about all I can easily link to is the Slashdot post. I will quote one reply on Slashdot: maker of cheap shit being purchased by seller of cheap shit.

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/02/13/2041215/walmart-in-talks-to-buy-vizio-for-more-than-2-billion

"These bins are for Wal-Mart employees to donate [food] to other employees. And where can Wal-Mart's low-wage workers find cheap food to donate? Wal-Mart. Anyone can afford food there... except people who work at Wal-Mart."
—Stephen Colbert

Thank you, Sam Walton and heirs. We're so very happy: found out that an Albertson's is breaking ground in January, much better than breaking wind. So some time next year we'll be able to say adios to Walmart! There's a LOT of people looking forward to it, it'll be nice to have another good butcher in town to get custom cuts of meat.

There's an old saying: make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. People took this 'lowest prices' and just didn't know where to stop, destroying a lot of small businesses. I guess part of it is economic evolution: big-box bookstores killed most mom & pop bookstores, now the internet has claimed CompUSA and Circuit City, Amazon has claimed Borders and Barnes & Noble is shaky and who knows how long Best Buy will last after they killed most of the small audiophile shops. Sears/Kmart is shaky because the CIIC (Chief Idiot In Charge) decided that departments had to compete with each other for bonuses in a weird form of economic Darwinism, meanwhile the stores fall to shit and they're talking about turning their unused mall space in to data centers. Apparently one Mother's Day advert featured expensive kids electric cars on the cover.

Amazon is actually a pretty big threat to Walmart if they choose to be, and they're talking about hiring the US Post Office for Sunday deliveries in some areas, that's going to be interesting to see how it works out.

I'm very glad for this, it shows that someone at corporate is doing a good and ethical job.

Walmart was hacked. It happened around the same time as the TJX and Dave & Busters hack, but there's no evidence that it was the same crew. Their infrastructure was penetrated and information about their point of sale system was compromised, but apparently it was caught early and no customer information was compromised. Because nothing was compromised, they did not publicize the hack, they just quietly sealed up their systems and became very vigilant about monitoring and PCI compliance.

How vigilant? They're required to undergo a PCI audit annually: Walmart does it twice a year.

I still don't like Walmart as a corporate entity because I believe that lowest possible prices and highest possible profit are ruinous to the world, but I gotta give 'em props for doing good on this issue.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/walmart-hack/

From News of the Weird:

What Goes Around, Comes Around

Thirty years ago, before Wal-Mart became an international giant, a small video company made a "handshake" deal to shoot promotional footage of the firm's executives and was given free rein within the company. It made 15,000 tapes, including many, inevitably, showing Wal-Mart leaders in awkward situations. In 2006, an incoming Wal-Mart executive decided to end the relationship, devastating Flagler Productions' bottom line, and to compensate, the company began offering to research its library for historians and, more notably, litigants suing Wal-Mart on product safety, employment and union-busting issues. According to an April Wall Street Journal report, a treasure trove of embarrassing moments is available. [Wall Street Journal, 4-9-08]

Wal-Mart orders ALL of its online store music vendors to provide plain MP3s!

The 800 pound gorilla has spoken!

There is an interesting, if somewhat frightening, quote in the article: "Though Wal-Mart maintains a modest 2% market share in the digital download arena, its market share for physical CDs is considerably larger: about 22%, Billboard estimates."

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/12/wal-mart-kills.html

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i6efb69eb2243cb842be35f0eab40082d

EDIT: the Slashdot thread hit after I posted this: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/03/235241

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Entries tagged with walmart

Other thought on the Walmart/Vizio buyout

Walmart in talks to buy TV/electronics maker Vizio for $2billion+

The economic base of this country is so screwed up, and it's corrupting the world

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Gotta love that WalMart!

Wal-Mart is our DRM friend?

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