Wal-Mart is more than just a place to shop and save money. It has fast become an American institution, a phenomenon for people the world over. That’s why Walmart People are so special. And that’s what Walmartnow is all about! Discover this phenomenon for yourself.
Walmartnow.com is the place to find the people of Wal-Mart. Who are they? You may ask. Well, they are people just like you and me. They are husbands, wives, children and uncles, auants, brothers and sister, etc.! In a nutshell, they are people who want to save money and have a wonderful shopping experience while doing so.
Really, I have found that many people are surprised and amazed at just how much Wal-Mart has to offer. Wal-Mart has practically every services and financial products imaginable! All designed for hard-working people that will help make your life easier. Now, check out these facts!!
The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. It is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas!! Yes that’s right! Bentonville, Arkansas! If that’s not American I don’t know what is!
Listen, Wal-Mart is the largest GROCERY retailer in the U.S. Yes, I said GROCRY retailer! In fact, In 2009, it generated 51% of its massive $258,000,000 sales in the U.S. from its grocery business.
Some people might not know this but Wal-Mart also owns and operates the Sam’s Club retail warehouses in North America! Wow! It gets better and better doesn’t it!!
Many people also don’t know that Wal-Mart has an incredible 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names!! Wow! The company operates under its own name in the United States, including the 50 states and Puerto Rico.
Now, I am just going to blow you away with the following facts about Walmart: It operates in Mexico as Walmex! It operates in the United Kingdom as Asda! It operates in Japan as Seiyu! Look at this picture here. This is the Walmart Supercenter in Shenzen, China! Go to China and experience Walmartnow, Walmart People…Walmart!
And it operates in India as Best Price! Go ahead and save the world-over!
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You’ve probably heard the expression “Big Brother is watching you” and if you’ve read George Orwell’s classic, 1984, then you know that it refers to a government that rules the people with an iron fist by tracking every move they make (through a network of both cameras and informants). Sounds pretty creepy, right? And yet, when retailers and social media outlets do it, we don’t bat an eye. Of course, they aren’t exactly trying to control how we live our lives, but they would like to influence the purchasing decisions we make, and they’re willing to follow us online in order to ensure that we buy what they want us to. In the case of Walmart, they’re using our friends to do it.
The Shopycat application is a first for Walmart, but it is just the latest in a long line of tracking platforms aimed at targeting consumer tastes in order to customize the advertising experience. But it is sort of interesting that Walmart has chosen a different route. Thanks to the recent acquisition of California company Kosmix, the discount chain now has software that can track you – and your friends – via Facebook.
They compile data on the likes, purchases, and general activity of you and your friends, then filter and organize it so that they can make recommendations about what you should buy in the future. What’s really interesting is that they’ve decided to use this not to target your proclivity to shop for yourself, but in order to tell you what to buy as gifts for your friends. And of course, it matches your friends up with products found in Walmart stores (although apparently they have teamed up with Barnes & Noble and RedEnvelope, as well).
Anyone who has had to rack their brains to come up with the perfect gift for someone may find this information helpful, but for some it may not outweigh the fact that corporations are tracking their every move. And many Facebook users are lately stymied by the fact that they have little control over their privacy settings. The social networking site took it upon themselves to de-privatize the abundant user information they cache in order to sell it to third parties (who would like to do just what Walmart is doing: track your spending habits and get inside your head). But thanks to a recent agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, Facebook users may soon have the option to beef up their privacy settings.
Of course, it may be too little, too late. You have probably already begun to notice customized ads from countless websites that track and report on you. Suppose you frequent auto blogs; you’ve likely started seeing a lot more ads for cars and insurance companies. Or if you recently purchased an Mpower Prepaid MasterCard, you might be seeing a lot of prepaid companies running ads. The long and short of it is that Walmart isn’t the first company pulling these shenanigans and they won’t be the last. So the only real question is: how much of this invasion of privacy can we blame on sites like Facebook that are selling our personal information, and how much culpability do individuals have to protect themselves?
