Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/19/walmart-thinks-it-can-save-its.html
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"Oh Wal-Mart, bless your heart!"
(I believe that is the geographically proper response to Wal-Mart’s proposal, right?)
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Cue the 'Derisive Laughter" GIF.
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Finally gonna get me some Mama’s Family on demand! Don’t @ me
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When I lived in the Bay Area, “Walmart Labs” was advertising for tech geeks like crazy. I wouldn’t sully my SAS for them and I’m guessing some others felt the same. Wonder if they still have the “Tech Help Wanted” sign out or if Microsoft is taking care of all of that for them.
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Wow. Talk about completely missing the point. It’s like a cargo cult. They don’t understand that a lot of their problem is that their website/search sucks, so they think mimicking the superficial structure of what their successful competitor does will bring the cargo raining down.
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Don’t they practice fairly strict censorship on their own shelves? I see a potential market among prudes and parents who want only “clean” entertainment.
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Three things Microsoft is most known for!
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I forsee a service that will be in direct competition with the Hallmark channel. They are, after all, the ones who refused to sell music albums that had naughty words in them.
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Nah. I have inside information that their proposed streaming service will consist entirely of non-stop tentacle porn. 24/7. All tentacles. All the time.
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It’s absurd how many competing streaming services now exist (or will soon). It’s getting to the point where if you want to see a particular movie (or even broadcast tv show), you have to hunt down the service streaming that carries it and subscribe in order to watch it. Leaving one with a million streaming subscriptions. It’s worse than cable packages, as it ends up being like having to subscribe to multiple cable services.
And “Trump country”-friendly entertainment. The one nice thing about Walmart setting up a streaming service is I can be fairly sure it’ll have nothing I want to see on it.
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The intrinsic problem with most streaming websites, even paid ones like Netflix:
Craig: “We ain’t got no sugar.”
Smokey: “No sugar? Damn. Y’all ain’t never got two things that match. Either y’all got Kool-aid, no sugar. Peanut butter, no jelly. Ham, no burger. Daaamn.”
That’s how Blockbuster Video is down to one store
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I suppose it’ll be a streaming video service where the content is censored to be family friendly?
Half the price, and a walled garden of Christian movies, Docu-series about gun rights and really old TV shows.
Oh No Mr. Fancy Pants, you can’t dump that on my region so easily. It looks like their dev is all out of Sunnyvale, CA anyway. CA also has the 2nd highest number of Walmarts. This is on you like glue.
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The next step after this is “Walmart Original” programming.
So much this. After a redesign their app is stunningly slow, as in ‘feels like a ps1 game loading’ level slow.
And trying to sell everything by everybody just makes it frustrating to browse. (If you never looked their site also offers stuff from overstock, wayfair, and a billion nobodies)
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shoplifter vids with the occasional angry ad hoc drive through
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Are they going to come out with a home automation device to compete with Alexa and Google Home? The one I got from Staples doesn’t work very well.
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No to mention the near constant fights (I personally saw two scooter riders get up and slap fight, get tired, then sit down and ram into each other.
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