• @disguy_ovahea
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      Even worse, Walmart crap will be in a landfill before the customer is done paying it off.

    • @return2ozmaOP
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      The credit cards are all maxed out so now they need BNPL. The economy is propped up on debt.

    • Flying Squid
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      62 months ago

      I’m just surprised Walmart isn’t also doing rent-to-own while they’re being predatory on the poor.

  • @sudo42
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    132 months ago

    First Apple, now Walmart. Looks like every CEO is looking to tank their company through finance just like their hero Jack Welch did to GE.

  • @LesserAbe
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    112 months ago

    Shit should be illegal. Bring back laws against usury

    • @[email protected]
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      Sorry, we can only make laws directly out of the Bible when it is against women’s body autonomy, not usury. Well, usury is in the Bible and abortion isn’t (other than how-tos), but you know what I mean. I have read neither the Bible nor the Constitution but I will absolutely claim they call for specifically the laws I want and ignore any part that calls for the opposite of what I want.

      Sincerely, Every Republican, top to bottom

  • PP_BOY_
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    112 months ago

    I’m gonna regret not taking out way more debt than I can ever afford to pay off when the government erases loans for the millions of folks who are falling for this, won’t I?

    • @gAlienLifeform
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      Nah, there will probably be a bipartisan compromise passed to bailout WalMart by buying this debt for the sake of “the economy” and then authorizing the government to start collecting on it by garnishing people’s paychecks and social security payments and food stamps for the sake of “the deficit”

  • @[email protected]
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    Dude gen z and alpha are so fucked.millenials got debt screwed so hard it’s created a whole industry around pushing easy to get loans and after pay and klarna and 0 interest rate credit and and and. Debt is literally required to live for most Americans and it’s only going to get worse.

  • @aeronmelon
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    92 months ago

    How long until employees are simply paid in Walmart points?

    Or their paychecks have whatever they currently owed automatically deducted… requiring loans to make it to the next check.

    • partial_accumen
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      Oh oh! I’ve seen this episode! Before the reboot they called it “company scrip”.

      The theme song was a banger too!

      The line “another day older and deeper in debt” from the chorus came from a letter written by Travis’s brother John.[2] This and the line “I owe my soul to the company store” are a reference to the truck system and to debt bondage. Under this scrip system, workers were not paid cash; rather they were paid with non-transferable credit vouchers that could be exchanged only for goods sold at the company store. This made it impossible for workers to store up cash savings. Workers also usually lived in company-owned dormitories or houses, the rent for which was automatically deducted from their pay.

  • Flying Squid
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    92 months ago

    I assume they’ll encourage their employees to take out loans…

    • sylver_dragon
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      72 months ago

      You stock 16 shelves,
      and what do you get?

  • @[email protected]
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    72 months ago

    I just wish I could find a real replacement to Simple, my favorite bank ever.

    They got bought by BBVA, things were fine for a while, then BBVA forced us off Simple and onto BBVA crap, then sold to PNC, which is when I finally moved over to One, at the time it was small but had some cool features. Then they sold to Walmart and the features got stripped out, the security got worse, the app now sends me bullshit notifications daily. Ugh

  • @[email protected]
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    41 month ago

    Capitalisms transition to neo-feudalism has been accelerating rapidly. Fun fact, amazon has their own intillegence division stocked with pinkertons and ex military.

  • @[email protected]
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    12 months ago

    might be interesting to see what “always low low prices” looks like from the financial lending perspective…

    • @aeronmelon
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      “Always a high high interest rate. Always.”