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Re: Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says

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Post by sneak » Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 2:29 AM UTC

bigmattystyles wrote: post #6

There's an annoying paywall I don't care to ty to get around but the fact that your grocer can correlate you to your drug use is the real worrisome part here.

Walmart runs a pharmacy, and most people use the same payment cards to check out for food and for pharmacy purchases (and also happily offer up loyalty cards and other tracking identifiers).

Walmart is also one of the largest users of facial recognition technology.

Why would it be surprising or worrisome that the people you buy something from know what you bought from them?

Re: Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says

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Post by dharmab » Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 2:29 AM UTC

cammikebrown wrote: post #9

Ozempic is like $800 a month, do the people spending that also go to Walmart?

Yes

1. Health insurance caps the annual price to a few thousand dollars, which is worth the money for most people for the health and social advantages

2. Wealthy suburban families shop at Wal-Mart quite a lot

Re: Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says

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Post by paulproteus » Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 2:33 AM UTC

tiahura wrote: post #3

Wait a sec. Didn’t they say this a few months ago and then walk it back?

The article is from October 2023. If you or someone else has a link to a more recent article where they take it back, I would be happy to read it as well!

Re: Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says

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Post by hasty_pudding » Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 2:34 AM UTC

bobthepanda wrote: post #10

> An increasing number of CEOs and investors are talking about how popular weight-loss drugs might change the economy and business. Earlier this week, the CEO of the maker of Pringles and Cheez-Its said the company is studying their potential impact on dietary behaviors. “Like everything that potentially impacts our business, we’ll look at it, study it and, if necessary, mitigate,” Steve Cahillane, the CEO of Kellano…

I didn't know Pringles and Cheez-Its had Darth Vader running the company.

Re: Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says

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Post by ToucanLoucan » Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 2:35 AM UTC

ents wrote: post #5

It's somehow Ozempic and not the always rising, already high prices for everything required for daily life?

Also that consumers are increasingly aware of how atrocious the American diet is and want to eat food that's made out of food, not just endlessly processed nutrient-void corn covered in fucking sugar.

Re: Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says

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Post by thefourthchime » Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 2:36 AM UTC

dharmab wrote: post #12

cammikebrown wrote: post #9

Ozempic is like $800 a month, do the people spending that also go to Walmart?

Yes 1. Health insurance caps the annual price to a few thousand dollars, which is worth the money for most people for the health and social advantages 2. Wealthy suburban families shop at Wal-Mart quite a lot

I'm love Walmart, great prices and return policy. Way less sketchy crap like Amazon has.

Re: Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says

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Post by mortenjorck » Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 2:36 AM UTC

sneak wrote: post #11

bigmattystyles wrote: post #6

There's an annoying paywall I don't care to ty to get around but the fact that your grocer can correlate you to your drug use is the real worrisome part here.

Walmart runs a pharmacy, and most people use the same payment cards to check out for food and for pharmacy purchases (and also happily offer up loyalty cards and other tracking identifiers). Walmart is also one of the largest users of facial recognition technology. Why would it be surprising or worrisome that the people you buy something from know what you bought from them?

The degree to which Walmart enthusiastically links things via payment cards has me considering going back to cash when I shop there. The first time I saw a series of in-store purchases unexpectedly show up in my walmart.com account history, I was not particularly happy.

Re: Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says

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Post by bhaney » Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 2:37 AM UTC

sneak wrote: post #11

bigmattystyles wrote: post #6

There's an annoying paywall I don't care to ty to get around but the fact that your grocer can correlate you to your drug use is the real worrisome part here.

Walmart runs a pharmacy, and most people use the same payment cards to check out for food and for pharmacy purchases (and also happily offer up loyalty cards and other tracking identifiers). Walmart is also one of the largest users of facial recognition technology. Why would it be surprising or worrisome that the people you buy something from know what you bought from them?

> one of the largest users of facial recognition technology

> Why would it be surprising or worrisome

...Are you serious? An unstoppable megacorp that continues to horizontally expand across a number of markets using some of the most invasive possible surveillance and tracking methods to correlate tons of tons of personal behavioral data of hundreds of millions of normal citizens, and you can't find the slightest thing worrisome about it?

Re: Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says

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Post by PierceJoy » Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 2:37 AM UTC

sneak wrote: post #11

bigmattystyles wrote: post #6

There's an annoying paywall I don't care to ty to get around but the fact that your grocer can correlate you to your drug use is the real worrisome part here.

Walmart runs a pharmacy, and most people use the same payment cards to check out for food and for pharmacy purchases (and also happily offer up loyalty cards and other tracking identifiers). Walmart is also one of the largest users of facial recognition technology. Why would it be surprising or worrisome that the people you buy something from know what you bought from them?

There’s a difference between them having a record of your purchase and them accessing that record for business analysis reasons. If Walmart operated a medical clinic, would you comfortable with their corporate data scientists accessing your health records?

Re: Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says

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Post by kumarvvr » Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 2:37 AM UTC

As of late, I have started to look at the ingredients of many of the foods I consume, here in India, and it deeply saddens me that most consumers stuff themselves with such ultra-processed chemical laden, taste and mind altering foods.

I had to struggle a bit, but I have been able to wean off my kid from these foods and started making a lot of them at home.

My next target is to get a cold press machine and make the oils used for cooking at home too.