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Business
Walmart’s War On Amazon Hurts Publishing Industry (Even More)
12:38AM Matt Buchanan | “If there is going to be a ‘Wal-Mart of the Web’, it is going to be Walmart.com,” says Walmart.com CEO Raul Vazquez. This “Amazon” thing is royally mucking that up, and Walmart’s not gonna take it anymore. More »
Random Stuff
Walmart Employee Arrested For Demoing Porn On HDTVs
11:00AM Sean Fallon | Two 20-year-olds were recently arrested on a felony obscenity complaint after replacing demo DVDs in a Arkansas Walmart with hardcore pornography. The video played on six screens in full view of shoppers. More »
Random Stuff
Walmart Gadget Shoppers Sometime Look Like THIS
10:40PM Sean Fallon | This guy doesn’t look like your average gadget shopper…unless he’s shopping in Walmart. We’ll I’ll be dammed—he is shopping in Walmart! I know this because the site People of Walmart told me so. Hilarious. Sad. Disturbing…check it out. [POW]
Games
Why Hello, $US299 Xbox 360 Elite
5:51AM Matt Buchanan | We knew it was coming, especially after the $US299 PS3 Slim, but here it is, stamped in dead trees for a Walmart ad: The Xbox 360 Elite for $US299. Don’t forget those HDMI cables. [Thanks Randall!] More »
Music
Variable Song Pricing Hits Amazon’s and Walmart’s Digital Music Stores
2:20PM Dan Nosowitz | Now that Apple is slowly and quietly switching all its freshly DRM-free tracks to a popularity-based variable pricing scheme, we almost didn’t notice that Walmart and Amazon have taken the same step. More »
Business
Seeing Viral Spread of Target Stores Across U.S. Somehow Not as Terrifying as Wal-Mart
3:00AM Jack Loftus | Seeing Wal-Mart spread across the U.S. in that video last month reminded me of a virus consuming mankind, but this Target one? Not so much. It’s not a perfect store, but it’s certainly no Wal-Mart. More »
Home
Jack Potty, Because Potty Training Wasn’t Disgusting Enough
6:20AM Wilson Rothman | My kid is almost the age where I need to consider potty training incentives. Walmart suggests the $US15 Jack Potty toilet/slot machine (get it?) with sensors that “detect a deposit and trigger lights and sounds.”
Business
The Terrifying Spread of the Walmart Plague
10:58PM Jesus Diaz | This is probably one of the scariest videos I’ve seen: The spread of Walmart. It may just be the slimy green, but it looks like an outbreak movie where everyone dies. More »
Games
Walmart Sticks Wii Fit Into Women’s Clothing Department
9:40AM Mark Wilson | Now this is just low, Walmart—about as classy as us putting up a game called Wii Should Maybe Protect Our Employees From Being Trampled To Death next to the break room. [Kotaku] More »
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