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Re:AI and Communism: Narratives of AI Behind the Iron Curtain by Animats on Sunday July 04, 2021 @05:11PM (#27732652)
WalMart tells manufacturers what to do, how to do it, and when to do it, in very explicit terms. Ask anyone who sells to WalMart.

"Who tells whom what to do?" - V.I. Lenin

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Re:AI and Communism: Narratives of AI Behind the Iron Curtain by creddit on Sunday July 04, 2021 @06:06PM (#27733003)
My family runs a business that sells to WalMart and I worked in merchandising in mega-scale retail briefly and this is 98% bull shit that is either done because you've bought whole hog insane narratives or are trying to fit your own. The idea that WalMart tells P&G how to make Tide is laughable.
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Re:AI and Communism: Narratives of AI Behind the Iron Curtain by LargoLasskhyfv on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @05:26AM (#27759120)
That would be relevant if WalMart sold only Tide from P&G. I guess they sell more of their own brands, produced by whomever, according to their terms. Similar to what COSTCO has as 'Kirkland', and ALDI/Trader Joe's as theirs, and so on.
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